Johnson Wagner defeated his rivals to claim the Sony Open title on Sunday.
After enjoying a nice sunny vacation in Hawaii for two weeks, Gary Woodland flew to Vegas to train under the wing of his new swing coach Butch Harmon.
Johnson Wagner worked so well in the off-season that he felt that he was going to deliver early this year and told it to his friends. His hunch was right – he defeated his rivals to claim the Sony Open title on Sunday. Wagner, 31 did not make any bogeys on the last twelve holes, [...]
Off-season is the time for changes. After enjoying a nice sunny vacation in Hawaii for two weeks, Gary Woodland flew to Vegas to train under the wing of his new swing coach Butch Harmon. The 27-year-old golfer took this decision shortly after swapping his agent Blake Smith from Hambric Sports Management for Mark Steinberg of [...]
Last year’s .S. Amateur champion Peter Uihlein is ready to travel to the other side of the Atlantic and turn pro. According to the golfer’s statement issued on Monday, Uihlein will leave Oklahoma State before his last semester to play with the European Tour. The holder of the 4-0 match record in the 2009 Walker [...]
Englishman Ian Poulter eked out a two-shot victory at the Australian Masters on Sunday, making Australia’s Geoff Ogilvy lose his bid for a win on the course of his boyhood. Ian Poulter was two strokes away from Australia’s Ogilvy before the final round, but managed to overcome windy weather conditions and finished with a 4-under [...]
Tiger Woods claimed the Chevron World Challenge title on Sunday after a drought that had lasted for two years. Woods fired two birdies on the last two holes at Sherwood Country Club to claim a win over America’s Zach Johnson, celebrating his triumph for the first time in the previous 26 events. Ever since the [...]
Aussie Greg Chalmers who is playing both on the European and PGA Tour is going through a good patch in his homeland as he won the second tournament in one month. Two weeks after outplaying Woods to win the Australian Open, Chalmers held off fellow Australians Marcus Fraser and Robert Allenby after they carded a [...]
Tiger Woods helped to secure the winning point for the US squad and obtain the victory over the Internationals on Sunday. The 14-time major champion beat Aussie Aaron Baddeley four and three to clinch the Presidents Cup golf title for the seventh time. The US squad was four points ahead before the final day and [...]
Greg Chalmers claimed his second Australian Open to leave Tiger Woods without a victory in Sydney on Sunday. The left-handed Aussie ranked 215th in the world standings outplayed his compatriot John Senden by one shot, with Tiger Woods finishing third. Chalmers played pretty spotless golf and turned in a three-under par 69 for a total [...]
German Martin Kaymer shot seven birdies on Sunday in a sensational win at the HSBC Champions tournament in Shanghai. World no. 6 Kaymer finished with a score of 20 under par, three strokes better than Swede Fredrik Jacobson. His final shot in the tournament with a seven-million-dollar purse was a 15-foot birdie putt. Kaymer’s victory [...]
Unfortunately, the greatest basketball player of all time and Charlotte Bobcats major stakeholder Michael Jordan will not travel to Australia for the Presidents Cup as a captain’s assistant for the US team. As a Charlotte Bobcats majority owner, Jordan will have to deal with the NBA labor dispute. US captain Fred Couples wanted the basketball [...]
World No. 1 Luke Donald captured both the victory in the Disney Classic and the PGA Tour money-list title on Sunday after turning in a brilliant performance with six birdies in a row. The British golfer who is aiming at winning money titles both in America and Europe recorded an astonishing eight-under 64. Donald who [...]
Current PGA Champion Keegan Bradley edged out this year’s Masters winner Charl Schwartzel by one stroke to clinch the Grand Slam Title at Port Royal Golf Course on Wednesday. After Bradley made three bogeys and Schwartzel sunk a 30-foot putt at number five, it was uncertain who would win the tournament but Bradley eventually clinched [...]
Tiger Woods’s weird year has become even weirder when a fan tossed a hot dog at him at the Cordevalle Golf Club during the Frys.com Open. Luckily for Woods, the hot dog did not reach him and landed on the putting area. The golfer was going to make a putt on the seventh green when [...]
Northern Irishman Michael Hoey edged out his compatriots Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell by two shots for the Dunhill Links title, becoming yet another Northern Irishman to win a golf event. 271st-ranked Hoey lost his initial three-shot lead at the outset of the last round but managed to recover by recording a four-under 68 after [...]
The Tour Championship went against all expectations. Eventually, all forecasts were wrong and the winner’s check was taken by a golfer who was not even considered to be a viable candidate before the race. In the end, this competition was decided by the struggle on the course and not by some statistics. After recovering from [...]
England’s Justin Rose seized his debut PGA victory at the BMW Championship in Lemont, Illinois. Rose, 31 held a four-shot lead before the final round but had to sweat a little before beating John Senden of Australia by two strokes. Rose got off to a bad start by recording a bogey but two birdies on [...]
Simon Dyson of England captured his third Dutch Open title in six years after firing a 4 under par 66 in the final round and prevailing over his fellow countryman David Lynn by one stroke. In doing that, Dyson, 33 joined such great golfers as Bernhard Langer and Seve Ballesteros who also won the Dutch [...]
Webb Simpson recorded three birdies on the tournament’s final holes and edged Chez Reavie in the Deutsche Bank Championship playoff on Monday. The two golfers completed seventy two regulation holes with a fifteen-under-par 269, with Webb shooting 6 six-under 65 and Reavie blowing his lead by making a bogey. World No. 1 Luke Donald tied [...]
World No. 1 golfer Luke Donald is preparing for the 2011 finale as the FedExCup playoffs will kick off Thursday The Barclays in New Jersey as he is intending to win both the European and U.S. tours. Donald, 33 who is at the top spot on the money lists of both tours, skillfully combining memberships [...]
There is no doubt that Yani Tseng is the top-ranked player this year in women’s golf given her dominance of the LPGA Tour but jet lag and the Ghost Creek course may just prevent her from getting her fifth victory this year at the Safeway Classic which started at Pumpkin Ridge Gold Club. Tseng won [...]
Being late is bad and disrespectful. And it turns out that it is bad not only for the person waiting, but for the tardy one as well. At least, it is true for golfers being late for their tee time. Brandt Snedeker arrived later than his designated time, thinking that it was not 8:10 but [...]
Being out with an elbow injury, South African golfer Tim Clark has been named as the Presidents Cup International Team assistant captain. The captain of the international team, Greg Norman, announced this decision at a meeting of potential members of his team prior to the upcoming the PGA Championship at Atlanta Athletic Club. Though the [...]
The less-than-subtle jibe made by Steve Williams against Tiger Woods shows how the one-time caddy and “friend” of Woods wouldn’t just sulk around quietly after he was sacked by the former world golf champion two weeks ago. Apparently, Williams has not yet recovered from being sacked by Woods despite his silence during the sex scandal [...]
Anthony Kim claimed the lead Saturday at the Greenbrier Classic with a brilliant eight-under-par-62 shot. Kim found his form earlier this month at the British Open after suffering from a lengthy dismal spell. He attributed his excellent round last Saturday which propelled him into a 10-under lead to his decision to focus on the “basics”. [...]
Amateur Harris English won the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Invitational, becoming the second amateur who claimed a victory in a Nationwide event this year. The victory of Harris English, 22 who has just finished his senior year at the University of Georgia followed the win of Russell Henley at the Stadion Classic at UGA on the [...]
