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ISPS Handa World Invitational presented by Aviv Clinics - Fantasy DP World Tour Ones to Watch

 

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Tuesday, August 9, 2022

The DP World Tour’s UK Swing concludes this week with a visit to Northern Ireland as the 2022 ISPS Handa World Invitational presented by Aviv Clinics takes place at Galgorm Castle and Massereene.

Daniel Gavins will be looking to rediscover his form as he defends his title while a few Galgorm Castle specialists will look to get in the mix.

If you have not done so already, you can sign up now to the official Fantasy Game of the DP World Tour and submit your six-man team before round one on Thursday: https://fantasy.dpworldtour.com.

Favourite - John Catlin

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It has not been plain-sailing for the American in 2022, however he returns to an island and a golf course where he has enjoyed success before. Catlin burst onto the scene in September 2020, claiming two wins in three events, including the Irish Open at Galgorm Castle. Another win followed in Austria in 2021 and while he has claimed just four tops tens since, one of those was again at Galgorm Castle in this event last season. The 31-year-old continued his love affair with the island of Ireland as he finished fifth at the Horizon Irish Open earlier this year and that just hands him the favourite's tag over.........

Form horse - Jordan Smith

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A regular in these features over recent months, Smith arrives in County Antrim sitting in 12th position on the DP World Tour Rankings in Partnership with Rolex and has missed just two cuts in 16 starts this season. The Englishman has recorded two runner-up finishes and three top tens in 2022, including a tie for ninth at the Slync.io Dubai Desert Classic at the start of the year. Smith finished in third-place at the 2021 ISPS Handa World Invitational and he is looking for another strong performance this time around.

Wild card - Tom McKibbin

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An in-form player is a dangerous player, as is a player with local knowledge, in McKibbin we have both. The 19-year-old has been in sensational form on the European Challenge Tour, currently sitting in 16th position on the Road to Mallorca Rankings and he finished in second place at the recent Irish Challenge. The Northern Irishman will know this week’s venue better than anyone in the field as he is the Touring Professional for Galgorm Castle. McKibbin impressed in this event last season as he finished in a tie for 26th and he will be hoping that a combination of course knowledge and good form can lead to a maiden DP World Tour title this week.

 

Women's Open 2022 at Muirfield 全英オープン、アシュリーに軍配

GT /Press/ Correspondent /tj.koga 

全英女子オープン　

アシュリーブハイ、プレーオフの末　凱歌

渋野日向子、最後まで優勝戦線で大健闘、９アンダーで一打、足りず３位。きしくも、ウオーバンで優勝を果たした渋野と同じペアリングのブハイ（南ア）と接戦した時を彷彿とさせるミュア―フィールの戦いである。

よく頑張った。渋野の復活にツアーの厳しさと限りない愛情を感じ、渋野の代わりにブハイが苦戦を乗り切りメジャーで勝利した。インジ（韓国、メジャー三勝）とのプレーオフ、４度目で勝ち得たブハイに祝福の言葉を贈る。おめでとう、アシュリー、渋野が陰で盟友の勝利を称えた。

日本勢の活躍があり、畑岡の７位入賞は、見事、堀琴音、山下の健闘は高く評価されていい。

Steve Eubanks の記事が詳細を伝えているので、英文だが、解読してもらいたい。

 

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BUHAI AT MUIRFIELD

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Ashleigh Buhai of South Africa celebrates after her putt shot on the 18th hole in the third Play Off for winning the AIG Women's Open with his husband during Day Four of the AIG Women's Open at Muirfield on August 07, 2022 in Gullane, Scotland.

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Written By:Steve Eubanksjseubanks

Steve Eubanks is a New York Times bestselling author and managing editor for the LPGA.

 

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Winning is never easy. Winning majors is tougher by an order of magnitude. Making a major your first win? Well, that pressure is almost impossible to describe.

You could feel it from four thousand miles away. When winless 33-year-old South African Ashleigh Buhai tugged a tee shot into the bunker at the difficult par-4 15th at Muirfield, you sensed drama on the horizon, even though Buhai, who started the final round of this AIG Women’s Open with a five-shot lead, still led by three shots with four holes to play. That margin evaporated in 10 minutes. Buhai clipped her pitch out of the cavernous hazard too clean, carrying the ball into the thick rough. Still more than 200 yards away, she attempted to wedge it out from there. But as often happens in the long, tan fescue of Scotland, grass grabbed the shaft and turned the face over. Buhai left the ball in the rough. She made triple-bogey 7. Just like that, the 14-year veteran who has battled illness and injury throughout her career, found herself tied for the lead with In Gee Chun at 10-under par.

That’s how regulation ended. Neither player was able to birdie the par-5 17th, but both made pars on the difficult par-4 18th.

Then came the seemingly endless playoff, 18 over, and over, and over, and over again until Buhai hit an extraordinary bunker shot in the dark, a blast that nestled down to 3 feet for par. After Chun found a fairway bunker and made bogey, the stage was clear for Buhai to roll in a short one for a life-changing victory.

It should be noted that Buhai is inside the top 40 on the LPGA Tour in only one statistical category – sand saves, where she is No. 1.

“I was surprisingly calm,” she said of her demeanor throughout the final round. “I kept going through my thoughts and my process. On the last (hole) my caddie (Tanya Paterson) said, ‘Show them why you’re number one in bunkers this year.’”

She did just that, also showing the world the grit that many who know her have seen for more than a decade.

For years there was a sense of underachievement with Buhai (nee Ashleigh Simon). As a teenaged amateur, she won four professional events in South Africa. People spoke of her the way they would speak of Lydia Ko almost a decade later. But Buhai underwent hip surgery early in her professional career, which set her back. On the heels of that came a bout with vertigo, which can be career ending for athletes. But Buhai never gave up. Through 220 starts on the LPGA Tour, she battled to one career runner-up finish. This was only her second time in the final pairing in a major.

The six hours she spent battling the wind and cold on Sunday was the perfect metaphor for her entire career. She never quit. She never looked overwhelmed. She put one foot in front of the next and focused on the mission.

There is an expression in military training that goes “slow is smooth, smooth is fast.” That was Buhai’s swing thought all week. She focused on taking the club back at 40% of her normal speed. The result was a week-long ball-striking clinic. She hit 15 of 18 greens on Sunday and missed only 13 greens in 72 holes, an exemplary number given the shifting conditions and gusting winds.

Twenty years ago last month, another South African, Ernie Els, blew a final-round lead, made gutsy par on the final hole of regulation, and then went five playoff holes before capturing the Open Championship. Buhai and Chun’s playoff was only four. But it was lost on no one that growing up Buhai had a life-sized poster of Els in her room. They have gotten to know each other over the years and Buhai went to YouTube early in the week to see the bunker shots Els hit on Sunday to win in 2002, including one from the bunker on the opposite side of the 18th green from where Ashleigh hit the shot of her career.

If destiny plays a role in anything in golf, this one seemed almost scripted.

Historians will also note that Muirfield remains undefeated. The links crafted by Old Tom Morris on an arrowhead-shaped peninsula in the Firth of Forth never disappoints. Just look back through the years. Phil Mickelson’s comeback 66 to make up five shots and win the 2013 Open Championship by three; Els surviving a four-person playoff in 2002; Nick Faldo twice, first in 1987 over Paul Azinger who pulled a tee shot on 18 into a bunker, and again in 1992 when he hung on after letting a four-shot lead slip away. Even way, way back when Harry Vardon beat J.H. Taylor in a 36-hole playoff in 1896, the venue has consistently delivered.

Even in the women’s game, Muirfield has been a star. In the 1952 Curtis Cup, American Grace DeMoss had a meltdown of her own on the 15th, hitting one cold shank after the next and losing what turned out to be the deciding match to GB&I’s Elizabeth Price.

The Americans got their revenge in East Lothian in 1984 when a Curtis Cup team featuring Heather Farr among others won 9½ to 8½.

But you can only be the first to do something once. And the first woman to win a major championship at Muirfield will forever be the quiet South African who battled injury, illness and doubt, and never gave up. Ashleigh Buhai is your 2022 AIG Women’s Open Champion.

LIV GOLFの存在２ ライダーカップキャプテン、H.Stenson 参入の余波

ＬＩＶ Golf の存在　　２

ライダーカップのキャプテン　ヘンリックステンソンまでLIV Golfに参入したのは、PGA ツアーには、衝撃的であった。彼の代わりに、ルークドナルドが就任、ヨーロッパのかじ取りを遂行する。

オーガスタ委員会もPGAツアーに同調してLIV 参加の選手を排除するとしたが、実際には、マスターズ三勝のアメリカの屈指の人気選手、２勝のババワトソン、セルヒオガルシア、シュワ―ルチェル、パトリックリードなどが過去の優勝選手でロッカーまでオーガスタに持っている状況の中、リグレイ理事長が、来年度の選手招待をどうするか、見ものである。現在のPGAツアーのLIV参加選手に対する排除政策は、納得できないと、提訴しているミケルソンを筆頭に参加選手は、憤りをあらわににしている。記者は、公平を考える立場にあるので、どちらかにくみすることはないが、イベントの本質として、イベントに参加するか否かは、選手個人の問題で善悪をつけるのはおかしいと考える。時代が要求するイベント発生は、当然既成事実のイベントがストップかけられるものでないはずだ。今後の成り行きをしっかり見ていきたいと思う。

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　GT /Press/ Correspondent /代表

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　古賀剛大 

LIV Golf の世界 グレッグノーマンが引率の世界的ツアーの躍進

LIV ゴルフの存在

LIV ゴルフがとやかく日本にまで言われ始めて半年が過ぎた。記者は最初から、イベントの組織が時代とともに変化していくのは、当然であり、とかくよその組織を批判したり、選手の動向を批判するのは、間違っているとの言論を吐いてきた。つまり、プロの世界は、賞金は大きな目標であり、歴史を刻む伝統の名誉より、生活権の維持と自由の存在であろう。古きもの、歴史あるもの、もちろん大切であり尊敬の値するのに批判するものではない。現在過去未来の時間は、人間が出した産物で、本来は、時間はないといったのは、アインシュタインであった。だから、新規にツアーが誕生し、そちらに選手が流れたからと言って、頭を抱えるより、新規ツアーに負けない内容の充実があれば、堂々と土俵の上の勝負ができるではないか。

主だった選手、ノータブルが続々、LIV ゴルフになびいている。マスターズ２勝のババワトソンも駆け込みpGAツアー脱皮の選手となった。ライダーカップのキャプテンになるヘンリックステンソンのLIV入りは、ライダーカップを辞してまでの思い余った行動だから、批判も消えたようにも見える。ポールケーシも仲間入り、ますますLIVの存在が大きくゴルフ界に影響をもたらしている。２３年度は、１４試合を決定、世界中を網羅する計画が発表された。英国紳士といわれたリーウエストウッドや、影響力抜群のイアンポールターが、LIV ゴルフに最初から会員になったのは、ほかの組織へのインパクトが強い結果となった。

３試合目、前トランプ大統領のコースで、ヘンリックステンソンが、優勝し、５億円プラスを勝ち取った。