Stop by The Club House Bar and Grill this week for our delicious lunch specials and enjoy them with a beautiful view of the golf course!
Beginning today through Saturday, we have:
Lunch specials available: Tuesday - Saturday • 11am - 2pm
Stop by The Club House Bar and Grill this week for our delicious lunch specials and enjoy them with a beautiful view of the golf course!
Beginning today through Saturday, we have:
Lunch specials available: Tuesday - Saturday • 11am - 2pm
New Scottish Open champion Robert MacIntyre might need a helping hand getting to Royal Troon this week.
The Scot claimed a brilliant and emotional win at the Renaissance Club on Sunday and vowed to ‘celebrate hard’ despite the 152nd Open Championship coming up on Thursday.
MacIntyre delighted the home crowds by birdieing his final hole in North Berwick to beat Adam Scott to the prestigious title by one stroke.
The victory came just twelve months on from heartbreak for the 27-year-old as Rory McIlroy beat him on the final hole of last year’s Scottish Open.
MacIntyre has made no secret of his desire to win his home event and, having done so, he was in the mood celebrate.
“I think there might be a change of schedule,” MacIntyre said of his pre-planned Open press conference at 3pm on Monday.
“I don't think I'll be in a fit state to get to Troon. I don't think I'll be legally able to drive.
“This, I'm going to celebrate hard, and I'll pitch up [at Troon] when I tee the ball on Thursday, whatever time I tee off, I'll try to win the championship.
“There might be some alcohol still in the system, but I will try my best.”
MacIntyre has enjoyed a stellar year, starring at the Ryder Cup before winning his maiden PGA Tour title at the Canadian Open last month.
His Scottish Open title has added to his already-impressive CV while he’ll be eager to build upon his fine Open record this week too.
MacIntyre added: “How I come down from this, I don't think I will.
“I think I will just try and ride the wave, and next week, yeah, it's Open Championship, that means, again, a lot to me.
“But you've got to celebrate the good times because it doesn't happen a lot.
“Last year was heartbreaking, but this year, it means everything. This is one that I said I wanted at some point in my career, and I got it today.”
Stop by The Club House Bar and Grill this week for our delicious lunch specials and enjoy them with a beautiful view of the golf course!
Beginning today through Saturday, we have:
Lunch specials available: Tuesday - Saturday • 11am - 2pm
If Davis Thompson keeps up the streak, there is a house in the Quad Cities area of Illinois that PGA Tour pros will be clamoring to get into next year. Has anybody called the couch yet?
The 25-year-old Thompson heads into the final round of the John Deere Classic at TPC Deere Run holding a two-shot lead over Eric Cole (64) and Aaron Rai (66) after firing a nine-birdie 62 on Saturday to get to 21 under. If he prevails, the former Georgia Bulldogs and Walker Cup star will notch his first tour win in his 63rd start.
Better yet, a Thompson win will continue either a really lucky or spooky streak for what PGATour.com dubbed in a story this week the “Trophy House.”
There are a group of players who regularly rent houses together at tour stops, and though they often switch residences, the crew has, for superstitious reasons, kept going back to one home for the Deere. That’s because J.T. Poston captured the 2022 event while staying in this particular house, and fellow renter Sepp Straka strengthened the Trophy House vibe when he roared to a closing 62 for the victory last year.
Straka said earlier this week that he paid the full rent for last year’s house, but he wasn’t staying there this week because his family was in town, though he did stop by to play cards and shoot the bull.
“If I win this year, they got to pay their own way,” said Straka, who will not get that done, standing at T-53 heading into Sunday.
Enter Thompson, who Straka jokingly said “snuck” into the house and got his room. Eerily, before the tournament, Straka offered, “Maybe it can work well for him.”
The Trophy House group this year includes Thompson, Poston, Denny McCarthy, Ben Kohles, Greyson Sigg and Patton Kizzire.
“We get a big house, there’s like six of us in there, and it’s fun because you come back and you’re playing cards or throwing football in the backyard,” Poston told PGATour.com. “It’s a good way to decompress and get away from golf, because the hard part of the hotel thing is you get back to the hotel and, if you’re alone, you’re probably thinking about golf.”
Said McCarthy, “It can be a battle, especially when things aren’t going great on the golf course. It’s nice to have guys in the house to come back to and talk with and hang out. Whether you shoot 65 or 75, it doesn’t matter.”
Thompson, who has scores this week of 63-67-62, has done his part to carry the mojo. He’s pulling off the trifecta of impressive stats, ranking second in strokes gained/around the green, third in off the tee and eighth in putting.
“It's been fun staying with those guys this week. Hopefully maybe it three years in a row,” Thompson said. “That would be pretty cool. Seems like everybody is going to want to be staying in that house next year.”
And Sepp Straka is going to have to fight to get his room back.
