News about Ernie Els

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY RIATH AlL-SAMARRAI: The problem with the joke is everyone who delivers it thinks they are the first. As the man on the receiving end, Matthew Southgate can laugh about how wrong they are. 'It happens all the time,' he tells Mail Sport. 'I'll be walking past a gallery at a tournament and without fail someone will call out, "Go on, Gareth". It becomes part of your life in a strange way.' Unlike the football manager with whom he shares a surname, the past few weeks have drawn unanimous goodwill towards an English golfer who knows what it is to struggle and has only recently been reacquainted with days of great satisfaction.

This is the extraordinary moment a golfer managed to hit a shot from the street in St Andrews over a row of houses and onto the 18th green of the Old Course. Wyatt Messmer posted the footage of the trick known as the 'Dunvegan Shot' after the famous hotel, which was taken from the corner of Golf Place and North Street. His video on Instagram , which has received nearly 10,000 likes since it was posted on May 30, shows him connecting with the shot cleanly on the wet pavement. The golfer then excitedly shouts 'that's right at it, that's right at it' before he runs after the ball and spots it on the green, pointing and saying: 'Just over the back.' But St Andrews Links Trust has since condemned the 'irresponsible and reckless' act, saying it demonstrated 'disregard for the safety of both public and property.'

The theatre student son of a top US banker wept in court as he denied groping a female partygoer at an ultra-exclusive Bahamas resort. Spencer Charrington, 19, insisted he was gay and was merely complimenting Diana Lisovaya, 35, on her sparkly dress when he approached her during a glitzy Moulin Rouge-themed bash. Her husband Philippe Gagnon, 55 - a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu - went on trial Monday allegedly slapping and punching him.

After the Northern Irish star filed for divorce from his wife of seven years in a Florida court, fans will be left wondering who gets what in the terms of the sealed pre-nuptial agreement. In what is surely the biggest split of the year so far in the world of sport, fans may be left wondering about how such a settlement may pan out - particularly considering that the 35-year-old, Holywood-born golfer appeared on the Sunday Times Rich List last year with an estimated net worth of £200 million.

Spencer Charrington, 19, was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault after Diana Gagnon, 35, claimed he touched her hip area at a New Year's Eve party. Gagnon's husband Phillipe , 55 - a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu - slapped Charrington in the face, was arrested and kicked out of the $90k-a-year club. The teen who is studying at a liberal arts college in Maryland was eventually arrested and released without charges.

Golfers must commit to the game from an early age, forgoing childhood pleasures in the search of a dream to make it to the top. That deal, unfortunately, is unfulfilled for the most part. Only a select few make it to the elite level of the game, whether due to injury, appearance, or simply bad luck. That's why it's so rare to see some of the early images of the stars of today's day, who have managed to defyse and, in even rarer cases, win the major awards of the sport.

Anybody who attended Louie Goh's show-and-tell in front of his schoolmates in Surrey will testify that he is no ordinary six-year-old. Louie wowed his families with his champion's trophy from golf's IMG Academy Junior World Championships, although most children would take in a pet or their favorite toy. His name is now listed alongside previous age-group champions, including Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Ernie Els, Jason Day, and Tony Finau as England's first ever winner.

MIKE KEEGAN is a member of SPORTS NEWS: Joe Lewis, 85, is 'hands off' when it comes to the club's day-to-day operations, according to Insiders. He is not known as a huge football fan and attends less than one game per season. However, he was at the first game at the new stadium and the 2019 Champions League final. On board Aviva's numerous screens, he likes to watch games. This does not imply that he doesn't have an opinion. Mail Sport has been told that on at least one occasion he called a player at the club to demand that they approach governing bodies and ask them to change the game's rules. Although his precise request could not be identified, it was described as "outlandish" by the author. Vivienne, Lewis' daughter, is particularly keen on what's going on in north London. She watches games on a more regular basis than her father, and she was photographed alongside Levy when Spurs hosted Brighton last season.

After he surrendered himself to US authorities in Manhattan in the aftermath of his indictment for insider trading, British billionaire and Tottenham Hotspur football team owner Joe Lewis will appear in court today. Federal prosecutors charged the 86-year-old of secret stock tips to his intimate couples, private pilots, and colleagues in order to make millions of dollars. Mail Sport reported on Tuesday night that federal prosecutors had accused him of releasing classified stock tips to his intimate partners, private pilots, and others so that they could make millions of dollars. Lewis exploited his inability to reap lucrative information, passed them on to people in his own circle, causing them to trade on the information, according to prosecutors.

Tottenham Hotspur majority owner Joe Lewis was charged in the United States with 'brazen' insider trading on Tuesday night. Federal prosecutors have accused the British billionaire of passing on inside information 'as a way to compensate his employees or shower gifts on his acquaintances and couples.' Lewis is charged with more than a dozen criminal charges, including securities theft, and he's also accused of loaning money to the people he's accused of tipping off.

Ernie Els, a four-time major golfer, gave a scathing analysis of the sport and its two warring factions: the PGA Tour and LIV Golf. Els, who has won two US Opens and two Open Championships, talked at length about the PGA Tour, which he used to compete on. In an interview with Sports Illustrated, Els said, "If this happened in my day, in my prime, there's no way he's around." "No way." And the board will have to reform.

They had packed the grandstands at the 17th hole more than an hour before a ball was even struck from the tee. The crowds were three deep behind the ropes as the sun danced off the waters of the Dee Estuary behind them, up by the green. However, they weren't there for the view. No, they did not come in search of pain, athletic pain, or both. So, when Matthew Jordan teed up his ball right before 10.45 a.m. and into the pale blue sky, they held their breath. It fell to earth and landed like a butterfly with sore feet about 15 feet from the hole. The result is just amazing. It was all rather like this for 20 minutes or so as groups one and two passed through this 136-yard stretch of coastline. Five pars and one birdie. Where was the jeopardy?Where was the drama? As it happened, it was just around the corner.

Dear Americans, your colleagues around the Atlantic want to tell you that this week's major is the Open or the Open Championship - there is nothing 'British' about it. Golf has a not so special relationship with its American and British followers, as it turns out. According to a recent report, American fans' behavior was rated 2.2 out of ten by their snootier British cousins with the invitation to the final major of the year as 'The British Open,' the annoyance. Why? Quite simply because it has never been called that.

THE MONEY: Liverpool fans planning to sue UEFA for the turbulence at last year's Champions League final in Paris has risen to more than 4,000, with compensation claims set to exceed £20 million. Last week, UEFA announced complete refunds of all 19,618 tickets sold to Liverpool supporters at the match, costing the governing body between £3 million and £3.5 million. Four law firms are collectively representing the Reds, with one of them claiming from £1,000 in damages for being hammered and tear gassed outside the stadium to £30,000 for sustained'serious psychological harm.'

After qualifying for both the US Masters and The Open, young Australian golfer Harrison Crowe has sold his tickets to the big time, but he is already known for a very dangerous trick shot that was shot at St Andrews earlier this year in a viral video.

The last Presidents Cup was so close that the International Team left with a renewed sense of optimism, but it seems a long way away now, especially in the shadow cast over North Carolina this week. LIV Golf has been dominating the headlines in the buildup to the showdown at Quail Hollow, just like it has every tournament this year, and, honestly, how could it not? The Presidents Cup is the first major team competition in the men's game since the insurgent series made its way into the scene in June. However, the Presidents Cup gives a bit more energy than LIV's team's, which is limited to two scores from a team of four to count towards the final result. After all, it's match play - whatever comes.

On Tuesday, Trevor Immelman used five of five captain's picks on Presidents Cup rookies to round out his International team, which had been unable to prosper by defections to Saudi-funded LIV Golf. The challenge of beating the Americans, who have lost only one time since the Presidents Cup started in 1994, doesn't seem to be any simpler. Immelman hasn't decided on a 12-man squad for the September 22-25 games at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. Five players from the 2019 squad that nearly defeated the Americans at Royal Melbourne are now with LIV Golf and are no longer eligible.