Nick Faldo

Agenda For The Augusta National Committee Meeting

The decision to extend an invitation to Ryo Ishikawa for this year’s Masters has been called “strictly a Japanese media buy” by one golfing journalist, and it’s a sentiment with which many in the media seem to concur. Is it even credible to give invitations out for a Major tournament? Probably not, but all golf fans are well aware that the powers that be at Augusta National do what they want. They always have, after all the event was conceived by Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts as exactly that, an Invitational. As a…Read more …

Best Of The Best

If I told you there have only ever been 16 ‘Official World Number 1’ golfers, you’d assume the list would include Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Tom Watson, and the other greats of the post-war era.  You’d be mistaken, though, as the ‘Official World Golf Rankings’ only came into being in the spring of 1986 and were first topped by a meticulous German by the name of Bernhard Langer, before Seve Ballesteros took over just a few weeks later.  That was a period of great success for European golfers, which now seems…Read more …
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