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GOLF TOURISM BUSINESS AMONGST WINNERS ANNOUNCED AT 'OSCARS'
A golf tourism business took one of the 14 Awards up for grabs last night at the Welsh tourism 'Oscars' - the National Tourism Awards for Wales - a celebration of the very best in what Wales has to offer the visitor. The Vale Hotel, Golf & Spa Resort won the Golf As It Should Be Award sponsored by the HSBC Bank.
Jack Nicklaus - The Future of the game
Having announced that St Andrews and the Open of 2005 would be his last professional tournament just half an hour before to a massed press conference, the 'Golden Bear' retired to the upstairs of the clubhouse of Woburn for a much more select interview. Just a handful of the National newspapers and this web site.
Pas Champions - Tom Whitehouse - Getting ready
Losing your Tour card has made some players in nervous wrecks. When it happens after your first year on Tour, it should be the time for re-assessment, something many have done and then gone on to tour wins and long term success. It looks like Tom Whitehouse is going to follow that path, but this week, at the Daily Telegraph Dunlop Masters, he's not too sure how well he can do.
Polaris World and Jack, Jack and the Open, Jack and the family business
Jack Nicklaus was in the UK yesterday, to unveil his involvement with Polaris World in the development of Condado de Alhama with three course designs (including a signature course) to be built in Murcia, Spain. It was a ‘flying’ visit to introduce Nicklaus’s companies’ involvement with what could well become one of the most famous golfing destinations in Europe in the next five years, and a chance for Jack to confirm that the Open at St Andrews will be his last Championship.
Darren Clarke – the future in 2005.
For the first few months of 2005, Darren Clarke has decided his schedule around the recovery of his wife Heather who has just undergone her fourth bout of chemotherapy. The third treatment produced some ‘dramatic’ improvements and again in Darren’s words ‘She is pretty keen on me getting back to playing’. This is a year which will be all about his wife’s recovery but Clarke is still playing golf and he is preparing to be even better than before.
The Stats Man
At this year’s Volvo Masters Andalucia, Reuters held their annual presentations for the players who top the Reuters Stats for the European Tour. They also included a surprise presentation to the man who has worked in the Stats Tent since the revamp of a facility that is now very much part of every player’s armoury in the quest for better and better golf – the man in question is Dennis Blasdale and his wife Lynne