Paul McGinley Gleans To Gleneagles Ryder Cup Captaincy.
While Paul McGinley would dearly love to be contesting this week’s PGA Championship at Kiawah Island, he has instead accepted an invitation to compete in the $US 1m Thailand Open as part of the OneAsia Tour.
And while McGinley is pleased for the competition, there was no escaping an event taking place next month in Chicago, and also answering questions relative to two years time when the Ryder Cup returns to Europe and the Gleneagles course in Scotland.
McGinley is a short-price favourite ...
Darren Clarke Finds Life A Beach But Golf’s Still A Mountain.
After spending two weeks relaxing on the sun-splashed shores of the Bahamas and finding life a beach, Darren Clarke now faces a PGA Championship reality check along the shores of the Kiawah Island.
Since missing the cut in the defence of his British Open title, Clarke has been chilling out at the Abaco Resort and setting aside eating, fishing and the odd drink in tackling the Green Turtle course.
But then after a 28-hour journey, when he could easily have headed to Australia, Clarke arrived from ...
Best Location At The PGA Championship – Alligator In Water Hazard At Kiawah’s 17th.
It has to be one of the best viewing positions on the whole of the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island – the water hazard guarding the green at the par three, 17th.
But the only problem the pond is the domain of just one creature – an alligator.
The alligator was a specatator for all the practice rounds today and whether it’s a he or a she, the alligator certainly drew a lot of comments from the players and caddies.
Here’s a few shots of the alligator along with the red lateral ...
2012 PGA Championship – Strongest In World Rankings History.
Should the current field remain intact by Thursday afternoon, it would boost the 94th PGA Championship as the strongest field ever based upon Official World Rankings in history.
Since 1994, the PGA Championship has featured the most ranked players among any major championship and has brought together the most international competitors in any U.S. major.
In fact, the final Major of the season boasts the top-108 players in the world and unless a player inside the top-108 withdraws, then it will be ...
Dave Stockton Slams Bernard Gallacher 21 Years On – “He Saw Suspicions In Every Friggin’ Corner.”
Victorious 1991 USA captain, Dave Stockton has fuelled renewed interest in the Kiawah Island Ryder Cup some 21 years on and singling out European captain, Bernard Gallacher saying the Scot ‘saw controversy in every friggin’ corner.’
Stockton, also a double PGA champion, was a guest in the Media Centre and was accompanied by his two golf teaching sons, Dave Junior and Ronnie.
There was large poster size pictures of Stockon and his former Orange County beauty queen wife, Cathy ...
Keegan Bradley’s Remarkable Journey From Altanta To Kiawah Island.
It’s been a remarkable journey for defending PGA champion, Keegan Bradley – from Altanta to the shores of the Atlantic Ocean at Kiawah Island.
Then last week Bradley reminded everyone of his credentials in capturing the WGC – Bridgestone Invitational and just a week before his defence of the season’s final Major.
“Yeah, it’s a great feeling, a lot of really good vibes here at the PGA, just seeing all the people again, all the PGA Officials and members of the ...
Roger Chapman Says ‘I’ve Got Nothing To Lose At Kiawah Island’.
Despite a nightmare journey from England to South Carolina, U.S. PGA Championship debutant Roger Chapman declared he had nothing to lose ahead of the final Major of the year at Kiawah Island.
Champman is making his debut in a Major billed ‘Glory’s Last Shot’ and it caps an extraordinary season for the affable Englishman.
The Brit is at the centre of one of the great golf stories of the year, and in his 32nd year as a professional golfer.
In what has been a quite remarkable year thus ...
