Laird Sees Top-20 Players Showing Sink With Two Balls Into The Drink At 17.

Scot Martin Laird saw a hopeful top-20 finish disappear into the drink after putting two balls into the water at the 71st hole of the Players Championship at Ponte Vedra in Florida. Laird was lying at four-under for his round and six-under for the $25m flagship tournament when he doubled the par-5 11th but managed to regain the two dropped shots with birdies at 14 and the 16th. Disaster then struck with the Denver-based Scot putting two balls into the water at the infamous par-3 island green 17th, ...

Spieth Admits ‘Maybe’ He Should Not Have Got Involved In McIlroy Ruling Debate

Jordan Spieth admitted, and what so many had suggested, that he should not got involved in the long drawn-out and painful rules debate that took place involving Rory McIlroy on day one of the Players Championship. We know that McIlroy’s tee shot at the par-4 seventh hole, and that McIlroy, Spi eth and Viktor Hovland were playing as their 15th on Thursday, hit a bank down the left side of the fairway and kicked straight left into the water. Spieth’s drive landed safely down the right ...

Monahan Continues To Tread On Thin Ice As Calls Mount For Him To Go.

In reading the transcripts from the opening round of pre-Players Championship interviews I don’t think there has even been so many controversial topics put to a PGA Tour Commissioner in all prior 49 years of the flagship tournament. In the usual ‘State of the Tour’ address Commissioner Jay Monahan was asked 31 questions and with the transcript boasting 1,670 words. Monahan faced questions ranging from what would he have done differently the past three years, whether there is a path ...

Exclusive … Laird Says The More Scots On The PGA Tour The Better

Martin Laird reckons Bob MacIntyre’s presence full-time on the PGA Tour  is a huge lift for Scottish men’s pro golf. Laird, 41, has been used to having Scottish company competing on the Tour for well over a decade thanks to fellow countryman Russell Knox. However, the double-Tour winning Knox lost full Tour status last year and it was only last week at the Puerto Rico Open the Inverness-born played a first Tour since the end of last year. In fact, there were three Scots last week teeing-up ...

Syme Returns Home For Six-Week Break Pleased With His African Triple Treat

Connor Syme arrives home to his beloved Scotland for a well-earned six-week break pleased after after a third best run of results in his DP World Tour career. Syme, 28, made it four rounds in the 60s in sharing sixth place at the close of the lightning-affected Jonsson Worldwear Open at Joburg. The Scot posted six birdies in a five-under 67 for a 20-under-par and just minutes before play was halted on the Glendower host course. Syme headed straight to the airport after doing everything the past three ...

Greens Staff ‘Hopping’ Mad After Kangaroos Run Riot On Melbourne Course

Greens staff were ‘hopping’ mad after the sight of a large number of kangaroos stole the tee and run riot down the fairways at the Heritage Golf & Country Club outside Melbourne in Australia. Melbourne is well-known for its famed ‘Sandbelt’ courses and while the sight of kangaroos on ‘down under’ golf courses is not uncommon, as this Aussie-born golf journalist can testify, including the sight of two kanagoos standing toe-to-toe punching each other while ...

EXCLUSIVE .. MacIntyre Tames Puerto Rico Heat To Make It Three From Three Weekenders.

EXCLUSIVE …. Top-ranked Scot MacIntyre battled the hot windy conditions in a comfortable round of 67 to be assured of playing all four rounds in his maidan appearance in the Puerto Rico Open. MacIntye is the highest world-ranked in the field at World No. 68 and was five-under through 11 holes but finished a little short-changed in playing the last eight holes at just one under, with three birdies and one less bogey in his score of 67. It handed him a top-20 position as the afternoon half of ...