Robert Karlsson Fears Graeme McDowell Ahead Of Volvo World Match-Play.
If there is one player Robert Karlsson fears in this week’s Volvo World Match-Play Championship it’s GraemeMcDowell.
Karlsson will face the 2012 Ryder Cup winning in tomorrow’s(THUR) opener on the immaculately prepared Finca Cortesin course on Spain’sCosta del Sol.
The Swede was a late entry into the 24-man field and taking theplace of injured former champion, Paul Casey.
Karlsson was a team mate of McDowell’s in the 2008 Valhalla losingside but failed to qualify for the Wales ...
‘An Open Book’ – Paul Lawrie’s Autobiography Set For Launch At St. Andrews In October
Paul Lawrie has hinted he would like the launch of his autobiography ‘Paul Lawrie – An Open Book’ – to take place in October and at the Home of Golf.
It would coincide with the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship where 11 years ago Lawrie became the first winner of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship and on a Monday when poor weather forced the event into a fifth day.
“We’ve finished off the book just recently so it’s ready to go to print,” said Lawrie ...
Michael ‘Sponge’ Waite To Caddy For Westwood.
Lee Westwood will have a new caddy for next week’s flagship BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth and for the remainder of the season, and he’s not English.
New Zealand-born Michael Waite, (and not Australian born as reported by the UK’s Press Association and the UK’s Daily Mail newspaper), lives with his wife, Nadia and young family on the famed ‘Gold Coast, and will fill in for the injured Billy Foster who has been informed by doctors he will be unable to caddy for ...
‘Head In The Clouds’ At Madeira Islands Open.
We all know what the saying ‘You’ve got your head in the clouds’ means.
However for those in attendance at this week’s Madeira Islands Open it has given the saying a whole new meaning.
On a couple of occasions during the week clouds rolled in off the Atlantic Ocean to engulf the course, and with players lost to spectators and officials.
Under a local rule, players have to remain in place until the cloud disappears which was the case this week with no more than 15 minutes lost.
The cloud ...
Shiv Kapur Sets European Tour Record With A Madeira Islands Open Drive Of 442 Yards.
India’s Shiv Kapur is believed to have recorded the third longest drive in tournament golf and possibly the longest in European Tour history after launching a 442-yard drive during the third round of the Maderia Islands Open.
Kapur used a Callaway RAZR ‘Hawk’ driver to bring the downhill par four, 13th hole to its knees and leaving the popular New Delhi born golfer just 11 yards to the front of the green.
John ‘Ronnie’ Roberts proudly holding Shiv Kapur’s record-setting ...
McIlroy To Throw First Pitch At Giants Game.
Rory McIlroy is to throw out the first pitch at a San Francisco Giants game on June 12, two days before the start of the U.S. Open at The Olympic Club in San Francisco.
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A European Tour First In Five Years – A 400-yard Plus Drive.
It has nothing to do with new technology and all to do with the mountainous nature of the Santo da Serra course with a European Tour player posting the first 400-yard plus drive in over five years in any tournament.
And the effort belongs to Argentina’s five foot eight inch tall Rafa Echenique.
Using his TaylorMade RS 11 driver Echenique blasted the ball at the par five, 11th hole all of 423-yards to easily claim the Genworth Financial Services ‘Longest Drive’ after two rounds of the Maderia ...
