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South African Charl Coetzee is two rounds away from a double celebration in the co-sanctioned Tshwane Open in Centurion. Play in the second round was completed early Saturday when a thunderstorm late on Frday forced an abandonment to play leaving 54 players still to complete their rounds on the Els Club course at the Copperleaf Golf Estate. Coetzee, who will celebrate his 32nd birthday on Monday, had moved to the clubhouse lead on 12-under par well prior to the stoppage with a second day score of ...

Fellow US Open winner and close friend, Graeme McDowell has declared not to write off World No. 1 Rory McIlroy after his shock withdrawal from the Honda Classic. It was uncharacteristice McIlroy slamming his clubs into the ground on route to being seven over par through just eight holes on day two in the defence of his title. Then when McIlroy found water down the 18th or the ninth hole of his round, he turned to playing partners Ernie Els and Mark Wilson saying he’d had enough. McIlroy, who ...

It seems that Rory McIlroy’s shock withdrawal from the defence of his Honda Classic was more mental than the pain of dental concerns. McIlroy later cited an aching wisdom tooth as he reason for walking off after finding the water with his drive down the 18th. However after commencing Friday’s round at level par from the 10th, McIlroy posted a double bogey at the 11th where he had uncharacteristically slammed his club into the ground in fluffing his chip shot from rough behind the flagstick McIlroy ...

World No. 1 Rory McIlroy has shocked officials in withdrawing from the defence of his Honda Classic title in Florida. The 23-year old double Major winner had slumped to seven over par for his round and the tournament including taking a double bogey at his second hole of the day and then a triple at the 16th or his seventh. McIlroy then bogeyed his eighth but after putting a ball into the water at the 18th it was the last playing partners, Ernie Els and Mark Wilson saw of the Northern Irishman. “There’s ...

Congratulations to the PGA Tour in reinstating World No. 1 Rory McIlroy to their website – www.pgatour.com www.golfbytourmiss.com had noticed for many weeks McIlroy’s name had been missing from the list of PLAYER members on the Tour’s website. However someone at the Tour must be reading what appears on www.golfbytourmiss.com because today there’s McIlroy’s name appearing as a PGA Tour member.  

Darren Clarke didn’t drop a shot despite describing as ‘brutal’ this week’s Tshwane Open course and one of the longest on the 2013 Race to Dubai schedule. Clarke posted three birdies in a three under par 69 on the Ernie Els designed Copperleaf course in Centurion, and on land once owned by the four-time Major winning South African. However it was in-form Springbok Darren Fichardt setting the pace with a five under par 67 in the inaugural staging of the European and Sunshine co-sanctioned ...

South African Darren Fichardt used a driver, 3-iron, 7-iron and then holed a 12-foot putt to shorten the longest-ever hole in the history of the European Tour and Race to Dubai.  Fichardt birdied the monster par five, 685-yard (626 meter) fourth hole on route to a seven under par 65 on day one of the inaugural Tshwane Open in Centurion and just 10 minutes from where the Springbok golfer lives. This week’s host Ernis Els designed Els Club course is laid out on land that used to own to the ...