It turns out that swinging the club with Luke Donald, Graeme McDowell and Shane Lowry is not that impossible as it seemed to.
Johnson Wagner defeated his rivals to claim the Sony Open title on Sunday.
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 [...]
Russ Cochran held off fellow Americans Tom Watson and Mark Calcavecchia to win by two shots Sunday the Senior British Open. This is the first major title for the 52-year old Cochran who made six birdies to close at 12 under during his final round at Walton Heath to win $310,000. Cochran opened a five-shot [...]
Golfers at the British Open in Royal St. George’s may be suffering from the foul weather out there with wind gusts estimated at 30 mph but it seems there is a contrasting overall sentiment among players at the other side of the fence at Prince’s Golf Club. This was the bemused observation made by Gary [...]
Rory Mcllroy expects to remain in touch Thursday at the start of the British Open thanks to a new-found maturity which has been added to his arsenal after a shaky start. The 22-year old US Open champion has been hailed as golf’s future after he broke long-standing records when he claimed his first Major. Mcllroy [...]
A Canadian sports doc who has treated such athletes as Alex Rodriguez and Tiger Woods pleaded guilty to smuggling illegal drugs into the US and using them to treat high-profile athletes. Toronto-based doctor Anthony Galea who treated numerous sports stars was accused by a federal grand jury of bringing illegal substances including human growth hormone [...]
Capturing the French Open championship 25 years after he first played the game seems like living out a dream for Thomas Levet. The 42-year old local hero, who is being eyed as a possible Ryder Cup captain when the event is staged in 2018 at Le Gold National near Paris, triumphed on the course after [...]
PGA Tour golfer Robert Garrigus, known for winning the 2010 Children’s Miracle Network Classic and using an unusually short putter admitted to smoking pot during the developmental tour for the PGA Tour, the Nationwide Tour. The golf player said that he often slipped out in the middle of the round to smoke marihuana in 2002, [...]
A lot of pressure may come with being considered Tiger Wood’s heir apparent but U.S. Open champion Rory Mcllroy said he is confident he can handle the pressure. The 22-year old Mcllroy’s first major victory at the Congressional a week ago was done in record-breaking style leading to comparison between him and Woods. Mcllroy however [...]
It seems that Americans have lost their position in golf. Northern Ireland-based Rory McIlroy claimed a record-setting wire-to-wire victory in the U.S. Open a few days ago. Apparently, American golfers embarked on a 5-year winless streak at Congressional, with South African Charl Schwartzel, German Martin Kaymer, South African Louis Oosthuizen and Northern Irish Graeme McDowell, [...]
Rory McIlroy gave his father just the perfect present by winning his first US Open title with record 16-under 268. His father, Northern Irishman Gerry McIlroy, who worked in the cold of the day or the heat at three jobs to provide for his son’s passion, was watching his son perform on the sideline and [...]
Golf Magazine has launched a new application via Facebook which allows up to 32 fantasy match-ups of players in the Fab Foursome Bracket Challenge. How about matching up Sandra Day O’Connor and Warren Buffet, Biz Stone versus Mark Zuckerberg or maybe Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bill Gates? Dick Raskopf, publisher of Golf Magazine, said they came [...]
Tiger Woods will miss the US Open at the Congressional for the first time since his 1995 comeback debut and this worries defending champion Graeme McDowell who said it might put a doubt over Woods’ career. Woods was forced to pull out of the event due to his Achilles and knee injuries, the same reason [...]
Tiger Woods cannot get out of a bad patch. Having promised to play in the U.S. Open two weeks ago, Woods announced Tuesday that he will miss the tournament. With his leg injury forcing him to pull out of the US Open, Woods’ pursuit of perfection and stalking of Jack Nicklaus’s record of 18 major [...]
The first Virgin International 36-hole Golf event has been held as part of Virgin Atlantic’s focus on sports travel. It was attended by representatives from England, Ireland, Japan, USA, South Africa, Europe and China. Ireland emerged as the early leaders during the first day of the event which was held at the London Club. Ireland [...]
Tiger Woods has been through a lot of trouble for the last two years. Since his 2009 sex scandal, he has lost contracts with Gillette, PepsiCo AT&T, and Accenture. His golf course design company was wounded by the economic crisis. The former No. 1 golfer is suffering the longest winless streak of his career and [...]
Ian Poulter has denied his compatriot Luke Donald the chance to get the golf world no. 1 ranking after he defeated him 2 and 1 in the World Match Play Championship finals. Poulter, who ranks No. 22, won two of the last four holes with birdies in the Andalusian final, defeating top-ranked Lee Westwood in [...]
There is arguably nothing more frustrating in sport than getting injured. More often than not there is nothing you can do about it and it is a case of playing the waiting game. It is particularly frustrating when you feel as though you might be in some good form, as Tiger Woods would have done [...]
This week’s Players Championship has gathered together 18 out of 20 golf legends and top names on its field. However it still misses two golfers who won’t come to the tournament in spite of its solid purse. No. 1 Lee Westwood and No. 6 Rory McIlroy refused playing at the TPC Sawgrass, preferring to stay [...]
Money is not the only thing at stake at the Players Championship Sunday. Aside from the $A8.9 million prize money, golf’s number one ranking is also at stake which is why it will be a very challenging game for Phil Mickelson, Martin Kaymer and Luke Donald. There are 156 players who will vie for the [...]
The wit of 14-year CBS Sports veteran David Feherty will be featured in Golf Channel through a prime-time, all-new series dubbed as “Feherty”. Feherty, which will debut during the week of June 20, is still in production. The series is Golf Channel’s first original series since it became a member of the NBC Sports Group [...]
Swiss watchmaker Rolex and the Asian Tour recently entered into an agreement which named Rolex the 2011 Asian Tour’s official timekeeper. While golf has been a staple in the marketing platform of the company since the late 1960s, the involvement of the company in golf has been extended by the deal. At present, Rolex is [...]
The third edition of this comparatively young golf cup presented by Habanos S.A. – the world leader in the commercialization of Cuban cigars – will be held in Varadero Golf Club, Cuba from April 14th till April 16th, 2011. 72 golf players from 12 countries will present their states on the golf course, including the [...]
Though golf as sport was born in Scotland, it has always been more of a North American entertainment. Just think of such names as Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson and their numerous merits in the golf world. But now it seems European players have pushed US golfers from their warm places. Last time Europeans were [...]
Former world number one Lee Westwood has urged the golfing world not to write of Tiger Woods as he searches to recapture the form the made him the most feared golfer on the planet. Westwood, a free bet favourite, took the American’s number one spot in October after Woods topped the rankings for 281 weeks, [...]
Martin Kaymer has beaten Bubba Watson in an exciting playoff end to the 2010 USPGA Championship at Whistling Straits. An exceptional end to an action pack weekend of golf saw the young German win the playoff by one stroke. This was Kaymer’s first major victory and if this form this weekend is to go by [...]
