Lee Westwood Storms 11 Shots Clear & Set To Move Back To No. 2 In World.
Lee Westwood is set to end the year on a winning note and storm back into No. 2 in the world after muscling his way to a massive 11-stroke lead early on day two of the Thailand Golf Championship.
Westwood again was in a class of his own adding a day two 64 to a career best of 60 the Englishman posted on day one around the Amata Spring Country Club course.
Weswood actually ended his round at lunch 14 shots clear before Masters champion, Charl Schwartzel (66) and American Michael Thompson (66) ranked ...
Thailand Golf Championship Striving To Set New Asian Tour Benchmark.
Amata Spring Golf Club is determined to see the Thailand Golf Championship become one of the most celebrated on the Asian Tour schedule.
This year’s initial has attracted of the season’s reigning Major Champions is Augusta winner, Charl Schwartzel and Open Champion, Darren Clarke.
Joining them is former World No. 1 Lee Westwood along with Spain’s Sergio Garcia, a recent back-to-back winner on the European Tour and England’s Simon Dyson, winner this year of the Irish Open and KLM Open.
The ...
Schwartzel Sympathises With McIlroy’s Heavy Season Schedule
Masters champion Charl Schwartzel sympathises with Rory McIlroy in the decision of the reigning U. S. Open champion not to contest this week’s Thailand Golf Championship in Bangkok.
McIlroy is recuperating this week in Dubai after being diagnosed with possible dengue fever and a low white blood cell count.
He had been advised by a Dubai doctor not to travel to the Thai capital where former ISM stablemate Lee Westwood was running away with the event and on target to overtake McIlroy and move back ...
Darren Clarke Looking To End ‘Incredibly Frustrating’ Season.
You could draw a strong similarity in the pitching and rolling of the boat Darren Clarke was aboard last Monday and The Open Champion’s 2011 season.
A day after finishing last in the Dubai World Championship, Clarke went about a half-a-mile off the Dubai coast aboard a 30-metre fishing boat.
But while Clarke managed to land a few Queen fish it was a turbulent time for he and those aboard as they battled a swell of some eight to 10 feet high.
Clarke then headed to Thailand for the final ...
Amata Castle – Certainly Not A Man’s Home.
One of the striking features of the Amata Spring Country Club is the massive structure overlooking a good portion of this week’s host Thailand Golf Championship.
Amata Castle is a strange looking building and from a distance it resembles a mix of traditional Thai architecture but also there is other portions, particularly the area looking out of the 11th and 12th holes, that resemble an oversize cage.
Then the portion of the castle that overlooks the large lake and the unique 17th hole floating ...
Rory McIlroy’s Thai Absence Very Noticeable.
The effect of Rory McIlroy’s late withdrawal from this week’s Thailand Golf Championship is clearly to those attending this week’s curtain closing event on the Asian Tour.
McIlroy withdrew last Sunday citing doctor’s instructions following a general run down in the health of the Congressional champion.
In driving from Bangkok Airport into the city there was a good sprinkling of ‘Long Live the King’ billboards featuring pictures of the King of Thailand in honour of his recent 84th ...
Amata Spring’s Unique Floating Green.
It has to one of the most unique holes in championship golf.
The par three, 17th hole at Amata Spring Country Club is different to the 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass.
The big difference compared to the Players Championship penultimate hole is that the 130-yard green in the Thai capital is that the green is a floating green and one that can be lengthened and shortened using underwater pulleys.
Darren Clarke is no stranger to the hole and the course having competed there a few years back as a member ...
