Vijay Singh Blanks Media Despite One Off Tampa Bay Championship Lead.
Controversial Vijay Singh blanked a PGA Tour official and waiting media despite moving to within a shot of the lead on day one of the Tampa Bay Championship in Florida.
The double Major winning Fijian is contesting the event under the cloud of likely suspension for using deer antler spray, and a banned PGA and European Tour substance.
Singh had posted a two under par 69 in cloudless but cold and windy conditions on the Copperhead course along the Gulf of Mexico shoreline.
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USA Gears Up For St. Patrick’s Day.
The US is gearing up for St. Patrick’s Day – Sunday March 17th.
According to Wikipedia a total of 36,278,332 Americans—estimated at 11.9% of the total population—reported Irish ancestry in 2008.
And a census conducted by the US Census Bureau revealed some 3.5 million (or about another 1.2% of Americans) identified more specifically Scottish or Irish ancestory.
It’s believed those with Irish connections in the US is some six times the current population of Ireland.
Of course, ...
Brandt Snedeker Returning To Competition At Arnie’s Event.
After a six week absence American Brandt Snedeker will return to competition at next week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational.
The 39-year old Snedeker has been sidelined with a rib injury since winning the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am in early February, that forced him out of two of the new season’s WGC tournaments.
Snedeker initially felt soreness on the left side of his ribs at the Humana Challenge.
He underwent treatment, then finished second in back-to-back weeks at the Farmers ...
Woods To Contest 2013 Tavistock Cup & Last Event Before Masters
Tiger Woods will once again represent Team Albany in this year’s 24-player Tavistock Cup and his last event before next month’s Masters.
Woods will tee up having captured two events this season including his wire-to-wire victory in last week’s WGC – Cadillac Championship.
This year’s 10th anniversary of the two-day event will also feature six four-man teams.
* Albany – Justin Rose, Ian Poulter, Tiger Woods and Tim Clark.
* Isleworth – Brian Davis, Bo Van ...
Martin Laird Vows To Arrest His Sliding World Ranking.
Scotland’s Martin Laird will contest eight of the next nine PGA Tour events, including this week’s Tampa Bay Championship, vowing to improve his sliding World Ranking.
Laird has played just five events this year finishing well down in his first two starts but sitting out the weekend rounds in Phoenix, San Diego and last fortnight in Palm Beach Gardens.
In those last three events Laird failed to break 70 while he’s now dropped two places out of the world’s top-100 and will tee-up alongside ...
Armed Robbers Break-In & Hold Up Staff At Rory McIlroy’s Beloved Holywood Golf Club
Armed robbers broke into Rory McIlroy’s beloved Holywood Golf Club but fortunately got away with none of McIlroy’s prized possessions.
Irish newspapers report the masked gang, one of whom was thought to be carrying a handgun, entered the premises shortly after 10pm last Sunday night and while McIlroy was on route to a last round 65 in the WGC – Cadillac Championship.
They demanded money and threatened two members of staff before fleeing empty-handed.
Two staff, a man and a woman, ...
Luke Donald Delighted Not To Be In Rory McIlroy’s Position.
Luke Donald heads to Augusta next month delighted not to be in the shoes of World No. 1 Rory McIlroy.
The present World No. 3 ranked Donald tees up tomorrow in his defence of his Tampa Bay Championship title and in his last PGA Tour event before the season’s first Major commencing on April 11th.
Twelve months ago, Donald needed just two weeks to displace McIlroy and regain the World No. 1 position in beating three players, including then defending title holder, Jim Furyk at the first play-off ...
