Report by AGW Golf Captain, Peter Dixon.. The final AGW golf event of the season proved a great success at Royal Porthcawl on Tuesday. In stunning conditions, 15 players competed for the Golf Writers’ Championship Fred Pignon Trophy on a day when the sun shone...
Raymond Jacobs (centre) with Paul Lawrie and Peter Alliss in December 2009 and on the occasion of Raymond receiving a Scottish PGA ‘Lifetime’ Achievement award. Five-time Open Champion, Peter Thomson has led the tributes on the passing of AGW colleague...
28th October, 2016 UK-based members of the Association may have seen last Thursday’s BBC TV episode of ‘Eggheads’ as proudly appearing on this particular edition of the quiz show was AGW member James (Jim) Mossop. Jim joined the AGW in 1988 and...
21st October, 2016. AGW members and our valued media colleagues will be aware of the recent announcement advising the ‘Class of 2017′ inductees into World Golf’s Hall of Fame. Whist everyone is delighted Ian Woosnam has finally been inducted, the AGW...
Paul Symes, and one of the Tour’s team of media officers for the past eight years, is leaving the Tour following next week’s Portugal Masters. Paul is heading ‘down under’ with his Australian-born wife for the next steps in his career. There...
Members of the AGW are saddened to learn of the death of Arnold Palmer, one of the most influential figures the game of golf has ever known. Regarded by his army of fans as “The King” and as “Mr Palmer” by the generations of players who followed him, he laid the...
MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF GOLF WRITERS – MEMORIES OF ARNOLD PALMER – WHO PASSED AWAY 25th SEPTEMBER, 2016 BOB DAVIES (AGW Treasurer & former Wolverhampton Express & Star/Shropshire Star golf correspondent) Myself and three colleagues – sadly...
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John Fenton commmentating for the BBC during the European Open at the Sunningdale Golf Club, Berkshire, circa August 1985. (Photo by Phil Sheldon/Popperfoto/Getty Images) John Fenton was born on 18th September 1926 and passed away aged 89 on the 19th July 2016, and...
Peter Corrigan – Passed away Friday 17th June, 2016. AGW member from 1995 – 2016 GORAN ZACHRISSON, President Association of Golf Writers. Peter was like the safe part of our archipelago in Sweden with thousands of islands, someone to pass in the press room...
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