Caddie Golf Tours

Great to have the European Tour arriving in St Andrews this week with the 'Alfred Dunhill Links Championship' at the Old Course, Carnoustie the 2018 Open venue and Kingsbarns which hosted the 2017 British Women's Open from Monday 2nd October. It is time to pull out the yardage books for #Kingsbarns Golf Links and #Carnoustie  and I have been lucky enough to have golfed both tracks a couple of times this year. I also walk the Old Course every day but a wee reminder with the caddies course guide will not go amiss for our golfer this week...Fore!

The young Argentinan Estanislao Goya, a tour rookie, won at Madeira by one shot after an extraodinary final back nine from another rookie, the Scot, Callum Macaulay.  Macauley shot a 28 on the back nine with eight birdies, six of those were in the final six holes! Goya held his nerve after double bogeying the 16th with two pars to win his first European title and a two year exemption. My 'adopted' player for the 2009 season, David Horsey, played all four rounds finishing in 23rd position.  

The wonderful young talent of Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy, still only 19, has won his first professinal title at the Dubai Desert Classic. A wire to wire win to boot!   He edged out the Englishman Justin Rose, who has returned to a wee bit of form recently, by one shot finishing on 19 under par. Rory had a bit of a wobble on the back nine with a few bogeys allowing Rose to get within a shot thanks to a great eagle and some birdies but he held on and with a good up and down from a bunker at the 18th, after Rose missed his 15 foot birdie putt, to secure his first title in his short professional career.   This win takes Rory up into the top 16 on the World Rankings and into 2nd place behind Garcia in the European 'Race to Dubai'. This young guy has it all, great temperament, steady driving, superb iron play and invention around the greens . It is going to be great to watch him, Kim and Villegas battle it out over the next few years. A new generation is coming to golf...fantasti...