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.
An eight under par 63 Thursday did not only give Jeev Milkha Singh the lowest round of his career but has also given him the lead in the Irish Open and put well-known golfers like Rory McIlroy, Graeme McDowell and Darren Clarke in the shade. The 39-year-old Singh, who is a former Olympic sprinter’s son, [...]
Andrew Chandler, director of sports management firm ISM and manager of the last two major tournament winners, believes that he found the reason why three golfers from small Northern Ireland have captured victories in three major tournaments in over a year. Besides managing U.S. Open winner Rory McIlroy, British Open winner Darren Clarke and 2010 [...]
Northern Ireland is being dubbed as “The Home of Champions” in a bid to cash in on the global success of the local golfers to promote tourism. The international media’s interest in Northern Ireland has been aroused after the back-to-back victories of US Open winner Graeme McDowell last year and Rory McIlroy this year, and [...]
Tiger Woods has fallen out of the top 20 for the first time in 14 years. And, back 14 years ago, Woods was climbing to the top, not dropping from a good spot in the top 20. Considering that the former No. 1 golfer has not won an event in years, his downfall does not [...]
US Open champion Rory McIlroy has chosen Graeme McDowell to partner him for Ireland at the World Cup in China later this year. The Ulsterman had the option of choosing from either Darren Clarke, who recently upset the odds to claim victory at this year’s Open championships, former major winner Pedraig Harrington or 2010 US [...]
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 [...]
A vandalism case was registered at the RBC Canadian Open. Ground maintenance personnel discovered that somebody had poured bleach on the 8th green at the Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club where the Canadian Open was held. All the ground crew could do was to wash the bleach out and report the accident to the police. [...]
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 [...]
Former major winners at the British Senior Open have raised their eyebrows on the dislike and unwillingness of Rory McIlroy to adapt to links golf. Ian Woosnam, Ryder Cup winning captain and former Masters champion was surprised and critical of McIlroy’s attitude which was even broadcasted to the media. McIlroy looked rusty less than a [...]
Perhaps, all golf players dread seeing their ball coming away from the hole toward them and losing their clubs before an important tournament. And this is exactly what happened to Brittany Lincicome as she arrived at Geneva’s airport for the Evian Masters and found out that her clubs got lost somewhere along the way to [...]
Darren Clarke completed a three-shot victory at the British Open Sunday to repel a dynamic charge from Phil Mickelson and to claim his first major title. The 42-year old Briton, who became the championship’s first home winner in the past 12 years, went home $1.545 million richer. Aside3 from the coveted Claret jug, his kit [...]
Bernhard Langer was a 23-year old skinny hopeful with two obscure European Tour victories when he showed up for the British Open at the Royal St. George’s three decades ago. Langer will be playing his sixth, and maybe, last Open at the same venue this week as a fit 53-year-old with several feathers in his [...]
“Don’t anoint him as the crown prince yet,” warned golf legend Jack Nicklaus even as he predicted many more major titles for US Open champion Rory Mcllroy. Nicklaus, who is considered the most successful player in golf with 18 major titles, sees Irishman Mcllroy at the top of the golfing world in the years to [...]
The OneAsia golf event held at the High Country Club in South Korea was cancelled as it was raining pitchforks. And while some golf players were distressed by this sad news, most of them of them rejoiced. Due to the rain, organizers of the event had to cancel the tournament. After just one round completed, [...]
All eyes will be at Rory Mcllroy during next week’s Sandwich and world number one Luke Donald agrees with this. The 22-year old US Open champion will be seen as an all-conquering hero after an eight-shot victory at the Congressional made him the tournament’s youngest champion since 1923. Donald, who wouldn’t mind emulating the runaway [...]
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 [...]
Jack Nicklaus and Colin Montgomerie, former Ryder Cup skipper of US Open champion Rory Mcllroy, took opposing views when it comes to the latter’s preparations for The Open Championship. A “warm-up” event is not needed by Mcllroy before net week’s Sandwich according to Nicklaus but this was debunked by Montgomerie who questioned the champion’s preparation. [...]
Tiger Woods has learned his lessons well. He may no longer be using a walking boot or crutches but he has not hit a full golf shot in the past 47 days. He does not even have an idea when he will be back in the field for practice or when he will join another [...]
Former world No. 1 Tiger Woods, who was a major winner for 14 times, admitted that the 22-year old Rory Mcllroy has a better swing than him when he was his age. He said it was “cool to watch” Mcllroy stun everyone with his eight-shot victory in the US Open in Congressional almost two weeks [...]
It seems that Tiger Woods’ spot at No. 1 is being filled by another golfer. Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy is doing everything what Tiger Woods used to do when he was at the top. The U.S. Open title winner went to Wimbledon on Tuesday, chatting with John McEnroe and Andy Murray and taking a picture [...]
The golfing world may be getting some lustre again with the recent victory of Rory Mcllroy in the US Open but with a 4.5 percent national rating for NBC during its coverage Sunday, it seems that the tournament still needs some suspense and excitement to bring back the viewers. Last Sunday’s rating tied with the [...]
There is always room for wonders in life. Take Erik Compton, for example. The 31-year-old golfer experienced two heart transplantations, one at age 12 and the other – sixteen year later. Who would have thought that he would be able to win any golf tournament after receiving a new heart? But he did, beating his [...]
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, [...]
Jack Nicklaus offered an unsolicited advice to Rory Mcllroy, new US Open champion and the youngest so far in the last 23 years, to handle his celebrity status properly in order to become a golfing great. The 22-year old Mcllroy achieved several records when he won his first major Sunday with an eight-shot margin, another [...]
Eight strokes in front of the chasing pack overnight was all it took for 22-year old Rory Mcllroy to card a two-under-par-69 and to become the youngest champion of the U.S. Open since 1923. “I couldn’t ask for much more and I’m so happy to be holding this trophy,” McIlroy said at the trophy presentation. [...]
