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Lee Westwood’s wait for that illusive first Major Championship victory will now have to wait to next month’s PGA Championship following a third round 70 in the 141st Open Championship. Westwood contested the third day alongside 62-year old Tom Watson. However being in the company of the eight-time Major Champion failed to ignite Westwood and with the current World No. 3 dropping three shots in his first six holes before picking up four birdies from his seventh to 15th hole before dropping ...

Legendary South African Gary Player has again called on golf’s ruling bodies to take measures to curb the distance the golf ball is being hit. Player was guest of honour at a breakfast hosted by HSBC within the tented village at this year’s 141st Open Championship at Royal Lytham and St. Annes. The nine-time Major winning Player, along with Jack Nicklaus and Peter Thomson, has long been an advocate of bringing in a special tournament ball to be used just by professionals. And Player ...

American Brandt Snedeker leads the 2012 Open Championship at 10-under par and one stroke clear of Australia’s Adam Scott. But now looming large in the final round picture is 14-time Major winning, Tiger Woods. Woods clawed his way up the board on day two adding a second straight 67 to move to six under par and capping his round by holing a brilliant bunker shot at the last. A total of 83 players made the halfway cut on three over par including former Open Champions Paul Lawrie (four under par) ...

William Hill cannot split Tiger Woods and Adam Scott at the half way stage of the Open Championship, making them 3/1 joint favourites to lift the Claret Jug. The second round leader, Brad Snedeker, is 4/1 with Graeme McDowell 16/1 and Luke Donald 25/1. “We are only half way but Tiger will have the biggest smile on his face as he goes to bed tonight.  He would be a terrible result after we offered 10/1 on Wednesday,” said Hill’s spokesman Rupert Adams. William Hill Open Championship Latest ...

Tiger Woods had spectators upstanding all round the 18th green when he brilliantly holeda  bunker shot to move to six under par on day two of the Open Championship at Royal Lytham and St. Annes. Woods was in a class of his own when compared to Europeans Sergio Garcia and Justin Rose and displaying once again why he’s in possession of 14 Major Championship victories. Woods also rolled in a birdie gem at 16 to post his second straight three under par 67 on the Lancashire links gem. And while ...

Forty-nine years after Bob Charles won the 1963 Open Championship and there is another New Zealander on top of the leaderboard at Royal Lytham and St. Annes. Steve Alker, who was out in the third group of the morning, carded a second straight one under par 69 to move to two under par and into the clubhouse lead. Alker, 40 dropped shots early but then birdied three of his last six holes including a gem on 18. “It was damp and it was cold and I kind of struggled for the first five or six holes ...

After felling teenager Jason Blue with a wild drive during yesterday’s first round of The Open, it’s come to light Rory McIlroy and his management team have upgraded Blue and his friend into a luxury hotel room for the remainder of the week. The Bristol-born Blue was camping out in a tent at a local cricket club. However Conor Ridge, who manages McIlroy, sought out details of the teenager and had them pack up their belongings and move to the comfort of a St. Annes hotel. And after ...