Yesterday the 4th tournament of the NGA Pro Tour – Bridgestone Winter Series took place in Harmony, Florida. The venue is the Harmony Golf Preserve. Participants are 88 and among those is Þórður Rafn Gissurarson, from the Golf Club Reykjavík (GR). Þórður Rafn finished yesterday at a score of 5 over par, 77 strokes, he got a birdie, 12 pars, 4 bogeys and 1 double bogey and is T-76 at the moment along with TJ Regan from Lynnfield, Massachusetts. Only the 29 first and ties will proceed to the 3rd day and get to play for a paycheck. Golf 1 wishes Þórður Rafn the best of luck tomorrow!!! To see the Read more

Golf1 will start its reflection articles on some of the main events that took place in golf in Iceland or among Icelandic golfers playing abroad.  We will start by covering what happened by looking into the main news for this past week – Monday, November 5th through Sunday, November 11th 2012. There are 24 reflection articles coming your way – covering the golf summer in Iceland and the autumn/fall… this being the first one.  The next one will be on what happened in the week Monday May 28th-  Sunday June 3rd and we´ll keep writing until we reach November 5th. But lets see what happened this past week: First lets Read more

It´s been a while since there have been Icelandic golfnews in English here on Golf 1, but by no means have we stopped writing them. In fact this summer was just a test on whether there would be any interest at all in such articles. Well, there is.  Thank you all who have been so kind to make inquires about our golfnews from Iceland – one is rather overwhelmed how much interest there is, also abroad, in Golf in Iceland. No worries we´ll keep you up to date on what´s been happening in golf in Iceland, since autumn/fall is a good time to relax and reflect on what this summer Read more

Axel Bóasson, Keilir Golf Club, Kristján Þór Einarsson, Keilir Golf Club  and  Ólafur Björn Loftsson, Nes Golf Club in Icleand are participating in the International European Amateur Championship.  The venue for the  tournament is Montgomerie Golf Course at the Carton House Club in Ireland.  It´s a 72 hole tournament lasting from August 8th-August 11th 2012. Some of Europe´s most famous and highest ranked golfers today have won the tournament a.o. Sergio Garcia 1995 and Rory McIlroy 2006. It is clear that  the Icelandic players will get a good opportunity to play against the best amateurs in Europe. Axel is the one fairing the best of the Icelanders after the 1st Read more

The 4th tournament of the Eimskip series, The Icelandic Championship in Stroke Play, took place this past week, July 26th-29th 2012. Icelandic Champions in Stroke Play are Haraldur Franklín Magnús, from Golf Club Reykjavík (abbreviated GR) and Valdís Þóra Jónsdóttir, from Golf Club Leynir (abbreviated GL) in Akranes. The Championship this year was exciting to say the least. In the Women´s flight the final contestants were 3: Valdís Þóra and Anna Sólveig Snorradóttir and Tinna Jóhannsdóttir, the two latter mentioned from Golf Club Keilir (abbreviated GK) in Hafnarfjörður.  The results weren´t decided untill on the 18th hole. At tee off Anna Sólveig had a 1 stroke lead; she only had Read more

After the 3rd day of the Icelandic Championship in Stroke Play has come to an end there are three hot, young players in the lead. Valdís Þóra Jónsdóttir, GL. Mynd: Golf 1 In the Women´s flight it´s Valdís Þóra Jónsdóttir, GL and Texas State, who has a 1 stroke lead on Tinna Jóhannsdóttir, from Keilir Golf Club. Valdís Þóra is former Icelandic Champion in Stroke Play 2009 and after a rather dissapointing last year, she seems to be back in form, since aside from leading in Iceland´s biggest and most venerable tournament, she recently became Club Champion of her Club, Golf Club Leynir (GL), in Akranes.  In a short interview with Golf Read more

The second day of the Icelandic Championship in Stroke Play came to an end today. And there was a cut. Only the 18 with the best score and ties of 27 competitors in the women´s flight continue and the T-72´s in the men´s flight. Sigmundur Einar Másson of the Golf Club of Kópavogur and Garðabær (abbreviated: GKG) has taken the lead in the men´s flight. His score after 2 days is 3 under par (Strandarvöllur the Golf Course of Hella Golf Club is par-70).  Sigmundur has a combined score of 137 strokes (68 69) and after 2 x 36 holes he has gotten 7 birdies, 25 pars and 4 bogeys. Read more

The first day of the Icelandic Championship in Stroke Play started today.  The first honorary stroke was struck by Jón Ásgeir Eyjólfsson, president of the Icelandic Golf Association. His golf stroke was straight and pin point on the fairway.  Thus the 70th Championship commenced.  This is also the  70th Anniversary of the Icelandic Golf Association. Leader of 123 participants in the Men´s flight is Rúnar Arnórsson, from Keilir Golf Club in Hafnarfjörður.  He played the par-70 golfcourse, Strandarvöllur, of Golf Club Hella, Rangárvöllum (often abbreviated to GHR), which celebrates its 60th anniverary,  in 66 strokes; got 5 birdies and 1 unfortunate bogey (on the most difficult hole of the course Read more

The Icelandic Championship in Stroke Play takes place July 26th-29th and this is the 70th time the Championship  is being held.  The Icelandic Golf Association celebrates its 70th anniversary aswell this year. The Championship is the highlight of each summer of the Eimskip tournament series, since what the competition is all about are the most prestigious and venerable titles in Icelandic golf. This year the Icelandic Championship in Stroke Play is being held on Strandarvöllur and is being managed by Hella Golf Club. Hella Golf Club was founded June 22nd 1952 and hence celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. The founders of the Club were Ásgeir Ólafsson and Helmut Stolzenwald in Hella and the Read more

The Icelandic Championship in Stroke Play starts at the Golf Club Hella July 26th-29th. Golf Club Hella celebrates its 60th anniversay this year. All of Iceland´s best golfers participate and the tournament is anxiously awaited by many, since it is the largest one in Iceland each year. Defending champions are Axel Bóasson, from Keilir Golf Club (who studies and plays with the golfteam of Mississippi State in the US) Ólafía Þórunn Kristinssdóttir, from the Golf Club of Reykjavík (who studies and plays golf at Wake Forest, in North Carolina). This will be the 4th time the Icelandic Championship in Stroke Play takes place on Strandarvöllur (the golfcourse of the Golf Read more