Niall Turner Looking To Follow In Darren Clarke’s Thailand Footsteps.
If Irishman Niall Turner needed any incentive to qualify for this year’s British Open then he will be hoping to find it over the next two days in Thailand.
The 27-year old Cork golfer is among just 72 players teeing up on Thursday in the 36-hole International qualifier over two days of the Amata Spring course in Bangkok.
It was just over two months ago Darren Clarke the reigning Open Champion competed over the course that hosted the Asian Tour season-ending Thailand Golf Championship.
The ...
Martin Laird Better Prepared For Tiger Woods ‘Insanity’.
Martin Laird will be hoping to be better prepared for any further Tiger Woods ‘insanity’ when he returns to Augusta National in April.
Scotland’s leading world ranked golfer made his Masters debut last year and it could not have been a bigger introduction to the year’s traditional Major than playing the final day in the company of the 14-Major winning Woods.
Woods and Laird started the final day at five under par in very hot and humid conditions but after the pair shook hands ...
Sam Torrance To Receive Scotland Golf Lifetime Achievement Award
Sam Torrance will be honoured at next month’s Scotland Golf gala night with a ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’.
Torrance’s name is synomous with Scottish golf and he will become the third recipient of the SGU’s Lifetime Achievement accolade when the event takes place on Friday 23 March at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Glasgow.
The career of the popular 58-year-old will be recognised in a year marking the 10th anniversary of the Largs-born player’s successful captaincy of ...
Questions Again Asked Of McIlroy After His Arizona Demise.
Questions are again being asked of Rory McIlroy’s ability to close out tournaments after he failed to deliver victory in the WGC – Accenture Match Play Championship.
McIlroy brushed aside some of the best names in golf and none better than current World No. 3 Lee Westwood (3 & 1) to reach the final on the Dove Mountain course.
But when it mattered the reigning U.S. Open champion was comprehensively beaten in the final by American Hunter Mahan who collected the $US 1.4m first ...
Woods Shown The Arizona Exit Gate By Watney.
All hope Tiger Woods had of capturing a fourth WGC – Accenture Match Play Championship was snuffed out on day two by compatriot Nick Watney.
Watney, who defends his Cadillac Championship next fortnight, showed Woods the Arizona exit gates with a 1up victory on the Dove Mountain course.
A day earlier Woods had hung on a day earlier to defeat Spain’s Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano but there was no denying Watney on day two.
Woods departure will surely make a dent in Arizona crowd figures while ...
Paul Lawrie Assured Of Augusta Return In Defeating Ishikawa.
Scotland’s Paul Lawrie is assured of returning to April’s U.S. Masters for a first time in eight years after defeating Japanese heart throb Ryo Ishikawa in the second round of the WGC – Accenture Match-Play Championship.
For a second day running Lawrie won his match 1up but on this occasion is was against a player 23 years his junior.
Lawrie travelled to Arizona on the back of a double Qatar Masters success that was the highpoint of an unpredented four top-10s in succession for ...
Ian Poulter Launches Stinging Attack On Bruce Critchley’s ‘Negative’ Remarks.
England’s Ian Poulter delivered SKY’s Bruce Critchley a stinging attack after his negative on-air remarks following Poulter’s shock first round exit from the WGC – Accenture Match Play Championship.
Poulter captured the Arizona event two years ago and he heads into May’s Volvo World Match-Play title in Spain as defending champion.
But it came as a big surprise when he was soundly bundled out 4&3 by Korean Sae Bang-moon on day one around the Dove Mountain course.
And ...
