The Amstel Light Iceland Open was recently held outside of Reykjavik, Iceland from June 22-25, 2004. This is the famed, yearly tournament where people play golf in the middle of the night. One can do this, because at this time of year, Iceland apparantly has daylight for 20–some–odd hours per day.
What could be better than whacking the ball around at some of Iceland’s best golf courses at one in the morning? Possibly bathing in the hot springs with a bevy of local young ladies, but I digress.
Maybe someday I’ll make the trek over.
It was a feel-good kind of weekend for the PGA and Nationwide Tours as fan favorites Sean O’Hair and Jason Gore each won.
After six long years of collapsing under pressure when the going got rough Heather Bowie finally collided with victory today at the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic. No, Heather didn’t win the tournament in valiant fashion scoring an eagle on the eighteenth green. It took Bowie three playoff holes and Gloria Park dropping a low hook into the creek on the 18th for a triple-bogey to gain the victory. But I guess a win is a win.
They say you drive for show and putt for dough, so that would make the putter many player’s “money club,” right? This week, we’re going to look at famous money clubs.
I’ve never been to Louisiana, but I can picture some of the folks who live there sitting on the front porch sipping lemonade on a hot summer day. David Toms fits that image well. David Toms is a low-profile man with a high-profile game. Low-profile comes naturally to a guy who grew up, not in New York, Seattle, or Beverly Hills, but in Shreveport, Louisiana. The pace there is a bit slower than in almost any part of the country and that is the way Toms seems to like it.
The British Open is only one week away and the top golfers in the world are either at St. Andrews already or are on their way. The John Deere Classic is the last stop for some of the PGA Tour players before heading to the British Open themselves.
In 1982, PGA caddy Judd Silverman was on a self-imposed mission to bring an LPGA tournament to Ohio. With the okay from former LPGA commissioner John Laupheimer, Silverman contacted several sponsors and Jamie Farr who lent his name and secured celebrities for the inaugural event.