McIlroy & McDowell Free To Choose Ireland Or Northern Ireland For 2016 Olympics.
The Northern Ireland duo of Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell will be free to choose to play for either Ireland or Northern Ireland should they qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janiero.
With the 2012 Olympics in full cry, the U.S. Open winning duo are in the picture as to what what country they would represent when golf returns to the Olympics in four years time.
There will be just a field of 60 players competing with the leading 15 coming from the World Rankings.
However PGA Tour ...
Rory McIlroy Misses The ‘Addiction’ Of Victory.
Rory McIlroy tees up in this week in Akron, Ohio and the first city in the world to conduct an AA meeting desperate to rekindle the addiction of winning.
It’s been nearly five months since McIlroy rode to success in capturing the Honda Classic.
In this intervening period, the current World No. 2 has managed a best of seventh some seven weeks ago in Memphis and more recently a share of 10th six weeks ago in the Irish Open.
However with just a month to the start of the lucrative FedEx Cup Series ...
Rory McIlroy Shares Sympathy For Crestfallen Adam Scott.
If there is anyone who can sympathise more with Australia’s Adam Scott following his final four hole Open Championship demise than it’s Rory McIlroy.
McIlroy went into the final round of the 2011 Masters leading by four shots but then posting a horror last round 80 to lose by 10 to South African Charl Schwartzel.
The Northern Irishman’s collaspe among the ‘Cathedral in the Pines’ was the most recent occasion prior to this year’s Open when we’ve seen such ...
‘Run Milka Run’ – Jeeve Milka Singh Inspired By His Olympics Spint-Champion Father.
It’s a wonderful story he broke to the media at the recent Scottish Open but Jeev Milka Singh has again expressed his goal of carrying the India flag at the Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janiero.
Singh will look to follow in the footsteps of his illustrious sprint-champion father who represented India in the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympic Games.
He did not succeed in winning an Olympic medal but he did become the first athlete from the new republic of India to win a gold sports ...
Peter Hanson – Two Good Weeks Stateside To Cement European Ryder Cup Qualification.
It came as a surprise in moving towards row 30 on United Flight UA 1177 from Newark to Cleveland to find Sweden’s Peter Hanson sitting in seat 30H.
We both had just arrived into Newark Airport with Peter jetting in from Copenhagen while I had travelled direct from Edinburgh.
Hanson had been competing last weekend in the Schuco Open at Gut Kaden in Hamburg where countryman Henrik Stenson posted a seven under par 66 to edge out Spain’s big-hitting Alvaro Quiros.
I had been allocated seat ...
Inbee Park Wins Evian Masters By Two Strokes.
By Agathe Seron at Evian Masters.
Korean Inbee Park captured the 2012 Evian Masters by two strokes with a superb final round 66 along the shoreline of Lake Leman. Australia’s evergreen Karrie Webb and American Stacey Lewis shared second place on 15-under par.
American Stacy Lewis was holding out thefield during the first 54 holes. It is often said that player wins a tournament on Sunday but lost it on Saturday. Lewis shot a shy 73 on third round and she was the last player to wear out the grass ...
Wiesberger Adds First Austrian Open Title To His Amateur Winning Haul.
Austrian Bernd Wiesberger added a first Austrian Open title to his impressive haul of Austrian amateur titles with success in the Lyonness Open.
The 26-year old Wiesberger called it the best day of his life after a brilliant seven under par 65 gave him victory by three strokes with a 19-under par tally.
The Austrian birdied seven of his closing 10 holes to roar past third round leader Thorbjørn Olesen and claim his second Race to Dubai success this year after earlier in the season winning ...
