On the 4th of June the 4th Womens Golf Day will be held at venues around the globe and this year the Annika Foundation will be in partnership with Elisa Gaudet’s initiative. Annika Sorenstam’s charity helps to reach and support women and girls in golf.
The one day 4 hour global experience for women and girls is about learning skills that last a lifetime and last year rook place in 92 venues in 52 countries with 50,000 women and girls trying golf for the first time. There were 15 million global impressions to 10 million users of twitter and Instagram.
Founder Elisa Gaudet says that “Annika is a global icon and champion for women around the works to get into golf and succeed. She has been a great supporter since we started to engage, empower and support women through golf in 2016, We support Annika in her goals for the Annika Foundation. Events will take place not just at private clubs but at golf centres, Top Golf, driving ranges and golf stores.
Look out for #Womensgolfday, @womensgolfday and womensgolfday.com.
An engaging and inspiring campaign is taking place this week with the first #Golf Health Week which will raise awareness of the health benefits of golf for people of all ages. Fitness, mental health, disability, health at golf clubs and golf for everyone, which has specific projects for people living with dementia, stroke, Parkinsons disease and loneliness. Digital and social media will be used to promote the physical and mental benefits of playing golf.
The campaign is supported by the R&A, European Tour, Ladies European Tour, PGA, Golf Foundation, England Golf, Scottish Golf, Wales Golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and the Irish Ladies Golf Association. The European Disabled Golfers Association, the PGAs of Europe and Golf Australia have shown interest in supporting too. Ambassadors are Annika Sorenstam, Padraig Harrington, Brooke Henderson and Zach Johnson, The dedicated week builds on the golf and health research project started in 2016.
Martin Slumbers, Chief Executive of the R&A said “it is important to demonstrate that playing golf can provide significant benefits for the health and wellbeing of those who participate in the sport. We’re encouraging people to tweet their steps taken and calories burned as they play golf and to head to the fairways over the Easter holidays”.
The campaign aims to tackle physical inactivity and prevent serious illnesses developing such as hear disease, cancer, stroke and diabetes. It is now established that people who play golf will live five years longer than if they did not play any sport.
Frilford Heath Golf Club are one of the clubs taking part, and this film explains what they will be doing.
There’s an eminem video filmed at Top Golf but the language was so bad I wouldnt post it. Perhaps listening to so much rap music before he tees off might be the cause of Rahm’s fieriness on the course.Just saying.
We’ve been lucky to have Drake over here in London for the past week or so playing sell out concerts. But in his time away from the stage we know he visits Top Golf, with some dubious results…
President Trump announced yesterday that he will be awarding Tiger Woods the Presidential Medal of Freedom after his victory in the 2019 Masters.
This award, innaugerated by President Kennedy in 1963 honours “especially meritorious contributions to the national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public endeavours”.
Woods will be the fourth golfer, after Arnold Palmer in 2004, Jack Nicklaus in 2005 and Charlie Sifford, the first black golfer to play on the PGA Tour, and Tiger Woods’ inspiration in 2009,were awarded the medal.
Arise again Sir Tiger of Isleworth. Lets knight him again.
It’s as if he never went away. He said last year that he was very lucky to be playing again, and the first thing that made this magical win happen was Tiger’s win at the Tour Championship last Autumn. That win was huge. It restored his self belief.
Going into The Masters earlier in the season he paced himself. He didnt put his back under too much strain by playing too much and going into Masters week he looked fresh.
Technically what was so impressive was his precision. His distance control was phenomenal all week. He controlled his trajectory, drawing his irons and hitting a slight fade with his driver. He made the most of his breaks and took advantage of the slopes. He patiently plotted his way around, his shot placement was brilliant.
But mentally this is where he looked head and shoulders above any other competitor. His poise, he was unflappable. He was slowing his heart rate with his breathing. He stayed present and focussed, chewing on his gum. And on the bag, Joe La Cava was a steadying hand. Tiger kept his head together under the severest of pressure and he looked stronger and stronger as the round went on. But he also looked as though he was searching for something at Augusta National. I think he was looking for his healing. And he found it out there a healing from the pain of the humility he has had to learn from his own self inflicted mistakes. He probably was also in some physical pain there. It looked on one tee that he took some painkillers, but it couldn’t have been as bad as when he won the 2008 US Open on one leg, it was discovered after the tournament that he had broken his leg, but he carried on regardless.
He had a lucky draw and had the best of the weather. The early finish, to avoid the incoming storm may have helped too, he didnt have to wait too long to get out and play the final round. And most helpful, coming from behind to win for the first time in a major, his competitors fell away. He acknowledged that Open Champion Frankie Molinari had given him a good battle. But Molinari made a lot of mistakes on the back nine – bad swings, missed birdies, not hitting it hard enough on 12, a rank shot on 15 and some plain unlucky breaks.
And so Tiger became Tiger Woods again, Sir Tiger of Isleworth of old. “Welcome back to the Butler Cabin Tiger” said syruppy Jim Nantz hosting the ceremony. And as Patrick Reed put on the green jacket on Tiger’s shoulders for the fifth time Tiger simply said
“it fits!”
The same words that Cinderella used when she tried on the glass slipper. And this was a fairytale too, you had to pinch yourself that it was actually happening. I had been in tears since he came off the 15th green, having lived through all of it, from the time he first played here in the Walker Cup as an amateur.
Every golfer raises their game when Tiger is around, Every golfer, not just the top tournament professionals that play on tour with him. Golf becomes more popular.He is an inspiration, he moves the game and changes the direction it is going. Let us all give thanks for what happened because it has repercussions for everyone who plays at whatever ability or works in the golf industry.
His fellow pros knew this and so many were there to congratulate him around the 18th green, they perhaps had not have been inclined to do that before, but this was different. He was received into their fold, one of them, and amongst them was the most successful Champions Tour player, Bernhard Langer, an earnest man of God. He has seen beyond Tiger’s transgressions and seen the spirit of God moving in Tiger, and never more so than today.
During the time when Tiger Woods was away from the top of golf only two companies stood by him. One of these, Nike, have been very quick to issue this tribute film. What a day. What a magic man.
Masters 2019 moving day was remarkable. For the first time in history there were three rounds of 64 from Patrick Cantlay, former US Open Webb Simpson and Tony Finau whose score moved him to joint 2nd on the leaderboard, Players took advantage of the slower, softer greens due to the heavy rains this week with a spate of birdies. Most of all Tiger Woods, looking to win his 6th Masters, had a round of 67 by making a lot of good chips and a lot of short putts, something he was tending to miss in the two previous rounds.
Francesco Molinari took the lead at -13 with an exciting round of 66 and went 43 holes this week without a bogey. He looks a picture of clam and stability. The current Open Champion played well in all the majors last year. He will play in a threeball with Finau and Woods on Sunday. Woods will put the pressure on the whole field but he has never won a major championship from behind before.
Tee times for Sunday’s final round at the Masters have been brought forward because of anticipated bad weather.
Players will be grouped in threesomes, with the first group expected to start at 12:30 BST and the leaders at 14:20.
With thunderstorms forecast in Augusta, tournament chairman Fred Ridley said the decision to start earlier would “benefit everyone”.
“We believe the earlier start will give us the best opportunity to complete the Masters on Sunday,” Ridley said in a statement.
“The safety of everyone is paramount. This decision should benefit everyone – the players, our patrons and our fans watching around the world.”
Tournament officials announced early Sunday that there will be no Green Jacket Ceremony. The champion will still participate in the green jacket presentation in Butler Cabin, but the traditional ceremony on the terrace putting green was cancelled “in order to expedite gate closures.”
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