Defending US Open champion, Lucas Glover, has confirmed his entry for the Barclays Scottish Open this year. It is the first time that Glover has been at Loch Lomond, joining Phil Mickelson (the Masters champion) and a good number of other US players at this years’ event. The Scottish Open is scheduled for 8th – 11th July, the week before the 150th Anniversary British Open at St. Andrews.
By Yvonne Shaw. Yvonne has been with PerryGolf for over 10 years and is a member of our admin team.
This year’s Champions Challenge, a four-hole competition for past winners on the day before the British Open, has twenty-eight confirmed entries. These include Seve Ballesteros who, despite the fact that he is still convalescing, is really looking forward to playing and thinks he will do okay. Last year’s winner Stewart Cink will be there along with recent winners Tiger Woods and Padraig Harrington.
Seven teams of four will battle it out for the £50,000 prize which will then be donated to a charity chosen by the winners. The event is part of the 150th Anniversary celebrations at St. Andrews and is sure to draw a huge crowd.
By Yvonne Shaw. Yvonne has been with PerryGolf for over 10 years and is a member of our admin team.
The Old Course in St. Andrews has been named as number one at the top of Celebrated Living magazine’s Platinum list of the Top 20 International Golf Courses. In second place is St. Andrews Links Trust’s newest course, The Castle Course. There are welcome accolades in the run up to the 150th Open Championship being held on the Old Course this year.
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It can only be good news for St. Andrews that Tiger Woods has confirmed his entry into this year’s Open Championship. Tiger will be trying to win the Claret Jug for the third time; the first player ever to do so. Always a crowd-puller, this year he is sure to add even more interest to the event…and I for one will be watching!
By Yvonne Shaw. Yvonne has been with PerryGolf for over 10 years and is a member of our admin team.
Arriving by helicopter, Jack Nicklaus stopped by at St. Andrews this week to host two golf clinics and to chat to the local school kids about the famous Claret Jug.
RBS, the organizers of the trip, wanted the famous golfer to attend the Open this year, however Jack politely declined stating that he had “said goodbye to the game of golf” already at St. Andrews in 2005 (the venue where he won two out of his three Opens).
Nicklaus added that “I didn’t say goodbye at the Masters I said goodbye at St. Andrews”. Obviously the home of golf is a place very close to his heart and he did not want to return just for the fun of it…
But that doesn’t mean you can’t play just for fun on the world’s most famous course!
