All the potential qualifiers have decided to play in the Women's World Matchplay event which clashes with the Open qualifying tournaments.

Teenager Michelle Wie could still qualify to play at Hoylake.

However to do so she would have to be the highest non-exempt finisher at the previous week's John Deere Classic.

Wie has so far failed to make the cut in any of the men's PGA Tour events in which she has played.

The R&A's Peter Dawson said: "The deadline for entries for qualifying is June 1 but as yet, no women players have entered.

Watch this space, I guess...

4/25/2006 5:26:58 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Our eagerly awaited debut of seeing the GolfPunk name hurtling around a racing track at 150 mph has started. The boys at HDT racing put in a sterling effort - keep up the good work fellas!


At long last we arrive at the first meeting of the year of the Dutch Supercar Challenge, at possibly one of the best circuits in the world, SPA. Shame it is not on the GP circuit, but the facilities do need improving.

We went to the meeting with an underlying rear grip problem, which is in hand but time ran short, so all we wanted to do was come away with points, to enable us to attack the championship at the next round, Zolder in May.

The competition in the championship gets stronger every year and this year is no exception, in fact it is at its strongest ever, so finishing 7th in the first 1 hour race was about what we expected. Spending Sunday pre-race time making suspension adjustments paid off, because Graham managed to finish 4th!!

This was a good result, especially as the results were fairly mixed up meaning the points are fairly distributed.

Looking forward to Zolder (20/21 May) and dont forget we are at Brands Hatch 17/18 June

David Walker
Team Director

www.hdtracing.com

'Right, no,no left!!'

4/25/2006 1:23:40 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Tiger Woods is to take an indefinite break from golf to be with his father Earl, who is suffering from cancer.

Tiger told a news conference in Wellington that he did not know when he would return to the game but said that he would play in the US Open at Winged Foot in June.

He is currently in New Zealand attending the wedding of caddy Steve Williams.

Earl Woods was diagnosed with cancer in 1998, but his condition has deteriorated dramatically this year. In March, at the Players Championship, Tiger rushed to his bedside on the Wednesday before flying back to the tournament 24 hours later.

Links: www.tigerwoods.com

         www.bbc.co.uk/sport

4/20/2006 8:44:19 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Here's a comforting thought for all those who are saving up the pennies to join their local golf course. All you have to do is find a load of lost golf balls and return them to the members, a la Deuce, and a passport to the links could be yours forever.

A MONGREL with a talent for fetching lost balls is taking the rough with the smooth after he was awarded lifetime membership of his local golf club.

Deuce has been rewarded for returning more than 3,000 balls to members of Pontnewydd Golf Club.

But despite the honour he is still the only member not allowed in the clubhouse as canine visitors are banned.

The friendly white terrier mongrel collects the balls on his daily walks with owner and golf club member Jim Phillis.

Mr Phillis, who lives on the perimeter of the course in Monmouthshire, South Wales, then returns all Deuce’s finds to the club, providing members with a ready supply of replacement balls.

4/19/2006 5:27:23 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Mmmm, a minature golf course, mmmm a back garden, mmmm a house. Some people should be grateful for what they have. Moan, moan, moan that's all we ever hear.

THERE are few golfers who can boast the use of a miniature course in their own back garden.

Businessman John Conner struck upon the idea of creating a one-hole garden golf course at his home in Currie in a bid to fine tune his game.

But it was his decision to put up a six-foot tall boundary fence along the side of the approximately 60-yard hole which proved the final straw for angry neighbours.

They claim that golf balls repeatedly end up in their back gardens and that one even narrowly missed a young child out playing and landed in the toddler's pushchair.

And they are furious that the towering fence has been built on top of an embankment next to the adjacent Water of Leith walkway, which they claim is public land. Neighbours say the fence also obscures their views of the picturesque waterway.

Now the city council has launched an investigation and Mr Conner faces having to tear down the fencing, which is around 50 metres long and six feet high above the course.

For full story click: http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=540982006

4/12/2006 6:29:26 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0]