As I said yesterday there is a ton of important golf to be played this year all over the world and today the European Tour kicks off it's final 12 events with a great tourney the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.
It used to be an International team competition called the Dunhill Cup which was a team golf tournament which ran from 1985 to 2000. It was for three man teams, one team representing each country, and was promoted as the "World Team Championship".
Each year sixteen teams competed in three days of round robin play to determine the semi-finalists. The semi-finals and the final were both played on the Sunday at the old course, in fact Canada won it in 1994 with Dave Barr, Ray Stewart and Rick Gibson.
In 2001 with the advent of Kingsbarns, a beautiful new course in Fife, the organizers changed it to a Pebble Beach style celebrity Pro-am and included Carnoustie and the old course at St Andrews in the 3 course rotation. The championship incorporates two separate competitions - an individual professional tournament for the world's leading golfers and a team event in which the professionals are paired with some of the most celebrated amateur golfers
This morning Luke Donald, Lee Westwood and Rory McIroy are all on the Kingsbarns course with their celebrity partners, Martin Kaymer won it all last year. Dustin Johnson, John Daly,Ernie Els, GMac, Darren Clarke, Monty, Paddy etc etc are all in the field along with a bevy of international and British stars.
For tee times and courses click here http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2011/tournamentid=2011071/teetimes/index.html
For live scoring click http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2011/tournamentid=2011071/leaderboard/index.html?showLeaderboard=Y
update..play has just wrapped up for the day on the south east coast of Scotland on a glorious sunny fall day and many of the scores reflect the almost ideal conditions, which by the way are due to continue tomorrow.
Four players were tied for the lead.Former Open Champion Louis Oosthuizen, Austrian Markus Brier, Spain’s Rafael Cabrera-Bello and Northern Irishman Michael Hoey were all -6 66.
Oosthuizen and Cabrera-Bello played Kingsbarns and Hoey and Brier, St Andrews
#2 Lee Westwood -4 68.... #6 Martin Kaymer -4 68.. #1 Luke Donald -3 69.. #2 Rory McIlroy -2 70 all on Kingsbarns.
Pro Am leaderboard click here http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2011/tournamentid=2011071/leaderboard/index.html?showLeaderboard=Y
Bryan Angus also on twitter@mummmbles
Bryan Angus also on twitter@mummmbles
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