Stewart Cink Shows His True Colours As He Looks To End Four-Year Winless Drought At Shell Houston Open
It’s been nearly four years since Stewart Cink last tasted success when he defeated crowd favourite Tom Watson to capture the 2009 Open Championship at Turnberry.
But while the Atlanta golfer, who turns 40 on the 21st May, has never forgotten how to win he’s had 81 starts since becoming a major champion, and missed the halfway in 30 % of those events.
So much so Cink’s currently ranked 272nd in the World Rankings.
However Cink, wearing a green and a red sock on the third day of ...
Rory McIlroy Puts Haiti Visit On Hold To Focus Fully On Valero Texas Open.
World No. 2 Rory McIlroy has postponed a visit early next week to Haiti to focus on competing in the Valero Texas Open in San Antonio.
McIlroy was due to travel direct from Houston and this week’s Shell Houston Open to the earthquake ravaged island he first visited in 2011.
However with McIlroy confirming late on Friday he was going to add the $6.2m Texas Open to his schedule he’s now put on hold a visit to Haiti.
According to a statement released by UNICEF, the organization with which ...
Rory McIlroy Vows To Step On The Gas Over Last Two Rounds Shell Houston Open.
World No. 1 Rory McIlroy has vowed to step on the gas over his closing two rounds of the Shell Houston Open.
It was though all of Houston was willing McIlroy on to birdie one of his closing seven holes and he did so, at his penultimate hole, in carding a 70 for a one under par tally.
And in the Masters scheme of things there could not have been a more important round of golf and with the last thing McIlroy needing before the season’s first Major, and that was the weekend off in suburban Humble.
“This ...
Rory McIlroy Adds Valero Texas Open To His Schedule
Struggling World No. 2 Rory McIlroy has added next week’s Valero Texas Open and in what many observers believes is a very smart move the week before the Masters.
McIlroy, currently competing at the Shell Houston Open, notified tournament officials through his management company shortly after posting a second round 70 to make the halfway cut at one-under par that he would be headed to San Antonio.
It is also undertstood McIlory’s Horizon Sports Management has been in discussion with ...
Geoff Ogilvy’s Augusta National Hopes Disappear Into A Watery Redstone Grave.
Geoff Ogilvy’s hope of contesting next month’s Masters ended at the par three, seveth hole of the Redstone course on day two of the Shell Houston Open.
Ogilvy arrived in Houston lying 50th on the World Rankings and just really needing to make the cut in the $6.2m event.
The Australian went into the second round at one over par but then started with an opening hole bogey before his demise at the seventh hole on the Redstone Course.
Ogilvy put his tee shot into the water left of the green ...
‘Dufnering’ Craze Sweeps Shell Houston Open – Tour Miss Involved.
Call it crazy and you can call it stupid but a new craze has swept the Shell Houston Open – ‘Dufnering’.
The protagonist himself, Jason Dufner, explained the photograh taken of him looking thoroughly disinterested in a classroom surrounded by children, while performing a charity visit to the J. Erik Jonsson Community School in Dallas.
Dufner sat next to two children who were listening intently to the teacher. His legs are erect, his arms stiff at his side, and he has a vacant look ...
Horsepower On Display At Shell Houston Open – Joey Lagano’s 5.8 Litre NASCAR Shell Penzoil Ford.
They call Joey Lagano ‘sliced bread’ (as in the greatest thing since) as he’s the youngest NASCAR driver to win a Nationwide Series race at age 18 years and 21 days old.
Lagano then became winning in Sprint Cup Series history when he was first past the chequered flag in the 2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
Logano is now the youngest winner in two of NASCAR’S three top divisions. Logano is also the first NASCAR driver born in the 1990s that ...
