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Archive for: July, 2019

    left right from top are Hazel Hogg, L. Vice Capt, Enniskillen GC; Stephen Smyth, Capt. Enniskillen GC; Heather Hetherington, L. Capt Castle Hume GC; Paddy Duffin, Pres. Enniskillen GC; Jacqueline Brown, L. Capt Lough Erne and Jim McClintock, President, Castle Hume GC.(Photo.Ronan McGrade) FERMANAGH LAKELAND TOURISM has announced that it expects to welcome more golfers from across the world to the banks of the Erne in 2019 than ever before, with a new three-day golf ...

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Laurent Delanney of Rolex, Lindsey Vonn of USA, Lorena Ochoa of Mexico, Franck Ribaud, President of the Evian Championship and Jacques Bungert. Photo Credit: 2019 Getty Images   Former Rolex Rankings No. 1 Lorena Ochoa made an emotional return this week to Evian-les-Bains where on Saturday night she was the recipient of a very special award, the inaugural Evian Championship Prize for a Better Tomorrow presented by Rolex, in honor of the humanitarian work achieved by her foundation ...

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Jin Young Ko claimed a two stroke victory in the Evian Championship at Evian Resort Golf Club to take her second major of 2019, following the ANA Inspiration. The last time a player won multiple majors in one season was 2015, when Inbee Park won the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship and the AIG Women’s British Open. Ko is projected to return to the top of the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings following her third win of ...

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  Photo: Pat Cashman Beth Coulter (Kirkistown Castle) has won the Irish Girls’ Close Championship at Galway Golf Club. Leading from the start, Coulter won the Muwick Cup for best stroke play qualifier with rounds of 72 and 74 but that would not be the only silverware for her to take home as she also secured the Violet Haslett Cup as best under sixteen qualifier and the big one – the Black Cup. The Kirkistown Castle native needed no ...

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St. Malo (France), July  2019 – Frédéric Lacroix made golfing history with victory in the Saint-Malo Golf Mixed Open: the first full-field mixed professional golf tournament in Europe, co-sanctioned by the Alps Tour and LET Access Series. The Frenchman finished two strokes clear of Italian Enrico Di Nitto, with Belgium’s Manon De Roey two shots further back in third place. It was his third Alps Tour victory of the season following wins at the Ein Bay Open ...

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   Ladies European Tour 2019. The Evian Championship, Evian Royal Resort, Evian Les Bains, France. 25-28 July 2019. Helen Aldredsson of Sweden poses with one of the past winner’s signs on the course. Credit: Tristan Jones From LET Swede Helen Alfredsson is the only player to have won three times at the Evian Resort. For the championship’s 25th anniversary and seventh time as a major championship this week, we asked her to look back at some of the ...

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  [Cascais] Visit Cascais and I guarantee you will be planning the next trip before you leave or checking out property prices! Glorious sunshine, magnificent golf courses, amazing food, wine, friendly happy faces everywhere and just over two hours from Dublin, what more can you ask for! For forty odd years I have been holidaying on the Algarve mainly with friends to play golf, I love the golf courses but they can be busy and expensive. In the past ...

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Suzanne Corcoran (Portumna) claims three in a row defeating Maria O’Reilly from Headfort in the final.  Anita McCaw (Royal County Down Ladies) wins the Shirley MacDonald Plate trophy defeating Fiona Corbett from Castletroy and Alison Taylor wins the Therese O’Reilly trophy as leading qualifier. Corcoran overcame leading qualifier Alison Taylor (Malahide) in a tight semi final tussle to claim her berth in the final while O’Reilly beat past Champion Sheena McElroy (Grange). In the Shirley MacDonald (Plate Trophy), Fiona Corbett (Castletroy) defeated home ...

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  Jon Rahm has won The Dubai Duty Free Irish Open for the second time in three years. The number 11 in the world shot a 62 in the final round on Sunday to take the title at Lahinch. The 24 – year old trailed leader Robert Rock by five shots heading into the final round. Rahm made four birdies on the front nine then shot five under on the back nine, flying high to the ...

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    St. Malo (France), July 7, 2019 – Frédéric Lacroix made golfing history with victory in the Saint-Malo Golf Mixed Open: the first full-field mixed professional golf tournament in Europe, co-sanctioned by the Alps Tour and LET Access Series. The Frenchman finished two strokes clear of Italian Enrico Di Nitto, with Belgium’s Manon De Roey two shots further back in third place. It was his third Alps Tour victory of the season following wins at the Ein Bay ...

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