John Daly Finding Peace 21 Years On Along The ‘War On The Shore’.
John Daly celebrated the 21st anniversary of his 1991 PGA Championship success with a four under par 68 on day one in hot and humid conditions at Kiawah Island.
Daly has been slowly and steady, and with the enormous benefit of a near full playing schedule, rekindling the form that saw him with a first Major at Crooked Stick.
Daly, now aged 43 but showing no signs of fading, joined defending PGA Champion Keegan Bradley plus 2006 U.S. Open winner, Geoff Ogilvy to finish just two strokes behind Sweden’s ...
TaylorMade & Titleist Duel For Kiawah Island Novelty.
Once again, TaylorMade has gone to enormous expense to present a unique golf bag for the company’s staff players competing at this week’s PGA Championship at Kiawah Island.
The giant U.S golf manufacturer set a trend a few years ago with their unique golf bags though they did get one statistic wrong for their 2012 Open Championship bag in showing a magnet with the number ‘203’ – to represent the number of the bunkers at Royal Lytham and St. Annes where the actual number ...
Paul McGinley Off The Pace In Thailand Open.
A level par 72 had Paul McGinley trailing eight shots behind the leaders after the opening day of the OneAsia Tour’s Thailand Open.
Unheralded Korean Kim Hyung-tae and Japan’s Yasunori Yoshida (right) made the most of near-perfect conditions on Thursday to shoot eight-under 64s and share a one-stroke lead after the opening round of OneAsia’s U.S. $1 million Thailand Open at Suwan Golf & Country Club.
Early-starter Kim laid down a marker with nine birdies and a bogey to hold ...
Paul Lawrie Turns Back To Bob Rotella To Tighten Mental Strengthness.
Scotland’s Paul Lawrie has bowed to recent pressure and turned to working at this week PGA Championship with renowned sports psychologist, Dr. Bob Rotella.
Lawrie joined the likes of fellow Major winners and Europeans, Padraig Harrington and Darren Clarke spending time ahead of the season’s final Major, and dubbed ‘Glory’s Last Shot’, with Rotella.
And USA Ryder Cup captain, Davis Love 111 has been working with Rotella since 1986.
“I had a chat with Bob last night and I’ve ...
“Rory McIlroy Is The Oldest 23-Year Old I’ve Ever Met”, Says Dave Stockton.
Double PGA winning Dave Stockton paid World No. 3 Rory McIlroy a huge compliment on the eve of the 94th PGA Championship declaring he’s the oldest 23-year old he’s met.
McIlroy has also been spending time these past two weeks with putting coach, Dave Stockton.
It was Stockton, who also captained the 1991 victorious USA Ryder Cup team in what’s since become known as ‘The War on the Shore’, who McIlroy first turned to after letting slip victory in the last year’s Masters.
Stockton ...
USA From Above – Flight From Newark To Chaleston.
I’m a few days late with these photographs but here’s a selection of snaps taken on the flight from Newark, New Jersey to Charleston, South Carolina for this year’s PGA Championship at Kiawah Island.
It is a flight I will be taking in reverse next Monday on route back to Edinburgh, Scotland.
* Click on photographs to enlarge.
#gallery-1 {
margin: auto;
}
#gallery-1 .gallery-item {
float: left;
margin-top: 10px;
text-align: center;
width: 33%;
}
#gallery-1 ...
OIazabal Recalls Seve’s Ryder Cup Brilliance.
It’s five weeks to the first tee shot in the 2012 Ryder Cup at Medinah and European Ryder Cup captain, Jose Maria Olazabal retold a remarkable tale involving his late and dear friend, Seve Ballesteros.
And the tale Olazabal told took place here at Kiawah Island 21 years ago in what has since become known as the ‘War on the Shore’.
It was the third straight Ryder Cup Seve and Olazabal were team members.
Here in Olazabal’s words his account of an incident during the very first ...
