Harrington Books Seat In Next Week’s BMW Championship.
Triple Major winning Padraig Harrington kept his FedEx Cup Play Off Series alive with a final round 67 in the Deutscher Bank Championship at TPC Boston.
It means the Dubliner is through to Thursday’s starting BMW Championship and the third leg of the Series.
Harrington commenced the final round in Boston well down the board on six over par and also 63rd in the FedEx Cup standings with just the top-70 on the money list starting in the BMW.
But after a superb final round 67 that included ...
European Ryder Cup Stars Warming-Up In Hilversum & Turrin.
The Europoean Ryder Cup trio of Francesco Molinari, Martin Kaymer and rookie Nicolas Colsaerts will warm-up for Medinah contesting the next two event on the Race To Dubai schedule.
Ryder Cup players Nicolas Colsaerts and Martin Kaymer will be competing in Thursday’s starting KLM Open at Hilversum in Holland before then travelling to Italy to join Italy’s Francesco Molinari playing in the BMW Italian Open.
While this week’s premier Dutch event will be in the forefront of Kaymer ...
Lowry Pleased Irish Open Trophy Safe But Disappointed For His Mother.
Shane Lowry’s Irish Open winning trophy is safe despite burglars severely ransacking his parent’s home late last week.
While delighted his prize item of crystal remains in his possession, the 2009 Irish Open winner is disappointed his collection of boyhood and teenage trophies were stolen in the raid in Co. Offaly.
But then Lowry said he was more upset for his mother who returned home around 10.30pm from her work to find the house so severely damaged.
“My mum just prided herself so much with ...
Shane Lowry Happy To End First Swiss Four-Rounder With A Top-20.
Ireland’s Shane Lowry has set himself a top-20 finish heading to the final round of the Omega European Masters.
Lowry was on the seventh tee when clouds rolled-in to completely engulf the course.
It was some time before Tour officials called a halt to play at 11.45am local time but it was to 1.30pm when play resumed.
And when it did, Lowry superbly drove the green at the shortened par four, seventh hole landing a 214 metre 5-wood to two feet and holing the eagle putt.
“The seventh was a great ...
The Day I Played Golf In Thomas Bjorn’s Shoes.
For 20 years now organisers of the Omega European Masters have been arranging a golf outing for media attending the event.
We play on the Jack Nicklaus-designed 9-hole course across the road from the main championship layout.
The event is a highly contested affair given the wonderful prizes on offer including an Omega wrist watch as top prize along with clothing, balls, gloves, umbrellas and so on.
However on this occasion I arrived to play without golf shoes and not looking forward to walking a ...
Key To Omega European Masters Win Will Be Getting Yardages Correct On Rain Saturated Swiss Course.
The key to victory this week will be the player who gets the yardages right around the rain-saturated Crans-sur-Sierre course.
Heavy rain contined to fall on day two of the event as temperatures also tumbled and resulting in snow falling on the lower Alps.
Frenchman Julien Quesne, and winner of this year’s Andalucian Open, has found the shortest route after two rounds posting a second day 65 to move to nine under par and one clear on England’s Danny Willett (67).
Scotland’s Paul ...
Shane Lowry Labels Break-In Thieves As Scumbags.
Shane Lowry has gone to Twitter to rightfully lable as ‘scumbags’ thieves that broke into his parents house in County Offaly in Ireland.
The thieves stole a number of trophies won by Lowry at his beloved Esker Hills Golf Club while the thieves stole his father’s repliace of the 1982 Sam Maguire Cup.
Burglars entered the Lowry home in Kilcoursey between 8:30pm and 10pm Thursday night.
Brendan Lowry, Shane’s father, was member of the famous team that stopped Kerry winning ...
