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Would you wear these? Oscar the grouch from Sesame Steeet would.

Film stars Deborah Kerr and Donna Reed are photographed in 1953 playing golf at Wai’alae Golf and Country Club in between takes of classic From Here To Eternity which was filmed in Hawaii. One scene, where Montgomery Clift’s character is shot was filmes by the bunker on the first hole of the course which this week’s Sony Open.  Golf has been played at Wai’alae since 1927. Resurgent Matt Kuchar leads the Sony Open going into the third round.

Well done boss of Levy Group

Invitations have been sent out to the leading women amateurs in the world to compete in the inaugural Augusta National Womens Amateur. The competition will take place with preliminary rounds played over the Island and Bluff nines at Champions Retreat Club on 3rd and 4th of April, the entire field playing a practice round at Augusta National on April 5th and the top 30 who made the cut competing the final round at Augusta Natiinal on April 6th

• Invitations will be provided to the winners of the following recognized events: U.S. Women’s Amateur, Ladies’ British Open Amateur Championship, Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific, U.S. Girls’ Junior, Girls’ British Open Amateur Championship, Girls Junior PGA Championship.
• Future champions of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur Championship will also receive an invitation for the following five years.
• The top 30 players from the United States of America will be invited who are not otherwise qualified, based on the Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking at the end of the 2018 calendar year (WAGR Week 52 standings).
• After the previous qualifications, the next 30 highest ranked players not otherwise qualified will receive invitations, as listed on the Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking at the end of the 2018 calendar year (WAGR Week 52 standings).
• Remaining positions will be filled by invitation of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur Championship Committee.

All players who qualify must retain their amateur status to compete in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur.

Provided she remain an amateur, the 2019 Augusta National Women’s Amateur Champion will receive an invitation to the next five Augusta National Women’s Amateurs, the 2019 U.S. Women’s Open, the 2019 Women’s British Open, and any USGA, R&A and PGA of America amateur championships for which she is eligible for one year.

Thank you to Augusta National Champion Fred Ridley for proposing this ground breaking tournament which takes place the week before The Masters.

Tickets for next year can be applied for on anwagolf.com.

Check out the silky swing of Spiderman actor Tom Holland who competed in this week’s Sony Open Pro Am in Honolulu

Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Sergio Garcia, Bryson Dechambeau, Patrick Reed, Henrik Stenson and Ernie Els are amongst the stellar field teeing up for the European Tour’s first venture into Saudia Arabia, the Saudi International which takes place at the Royal Greens Golf and Country Club January 31-February 3rd.

The 6,900 yard par 72 course in the new King Abdullah Economic City, opened last year., It has salt water lakes, wadi features, desert waste bunkers and sweeping  views over the Red Sea.

Enie Els, who attended the club’s opening last year, said the course is spectacular, This is a very worthy addition to the European Tour’s Desert Swing and is quickly going to become one of the most popular additions on any travelling golfer’s wish list”.

At the 1967 Masters leader Roberto De Vicenzo was disqualified for signing an incorrect scorecard. This newspaper cutting from the time explains the story.

Following the tournament Masters Chairman Bobby Jones wrote to the winner Bob Goalby, and in this short letter put everything right for him.

To Bob Goalby

The privilege of welcoming a new Masters champion to a green coat is something that I have always reserved to myself. I was especially disappointed this year that a virus attack caused it to be impossible for me to make the presentation to you. I am sending you my warm congratulations on my first day back in circulation. Your golf at Augusta was superb in every way. I saw a good bit of it on the television monitor in my bedroom. I was particularly thrilled by those three great putts you holed at thirteen, fourteen and fifteen in the last round and by your exquisite second shot to the fifteenth which was the finest shot I have ever seen played on that hole.

The scorecard mix-up was a tragedy for Roberto,  but it was also one of equal proportions for you. I thought you both handled the situation in the most sportsmanlike and exemplary manner. I know you would have much preferred to go to a playoff, but I ask you always to remember that you won the tournament under the Rules of Golf and by your superlative play. Indeed, I think overall, it was the most beautifully contested tournament I have ever seen. We, at Augusta, will always be proud of you as a Masters champion. I hope that this will prove to be only the beginning of a wonderful year for you. I shall look forward to seeing you next Spring.

With warmest regards

Most sincerely

Bob Jones

Now that is how one golfer should speak to another!

Roberto De Vicenzo recovered to win the 1967 Open Championship a few months later.

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