Adam Scott: ‘If It Wasn’t For My Short Game I’d Be Selling Hot Dogs’
Adam Scott tees-up in this week’s Honda Classic, and the event he brilliantly captured five years ago, joking that if were not his short-game he’d be selling hot dogs.
Scott’s one-shot victory over Spaniard Sergio Garcia was a 12th of now 14 PGA Tour victories and with the proud Australian heading south the next to Doral to win the following week’s WGC – Cadillac Championship over fellow Masters champion Bubba Watson.
Scott’s back-to-back victories at PGA National ...
Rory McIlroy: 2021 St. Patricks Day, 500 Days Since His Last Win But Harrington’s Hardly Concerned.
Today March 17th – St. Patrick’s Day 2021 – marks 500 days since Rory McIlroy’s last victory but European Ryder Cup captain Padraig Harrington is hardly concerned.
It was three days into November 2019 when McIlroy came from two shots behind to birdie the first extra hole and defeat American Xander Schauffele in a play-off to capture the WGC – HSBC Champions title.
The win in Shanghai made it four wins in a single season for McIlroy having captured The Players, the Canadian Open ...
Dumbarnie Links Re-Opens With Clubhouse Now Complete Awaiting Full Scottish Golf Experience Return.
Dumbarnie Links has used the winter months to proudly put the finishing touches on Scotland’s newest golf course ready for re-opening today – St. Patrick’s Day.
The Fife course had to put back it’s opening last year by two weeks unitil May 29th and the lifting of the golfing lockdown.
And in the short time it was opened until a winter closure some 15,000 Scottish golfers teed-up on the already much-acclaimed Clive Clark designed course near Upper Largo.
All were Fife golfers under the lockdown ...
Good Augusta News For MacIntyre Despite Dropping Down Rankings
It’s overall good news Masters-wise for top-ranked Scot Robert MacIntyre despite dropping two places on the World Rankings and with just 13 days (March 29th) to official confirmation of a maiden Augusta National invitaton.
MacIntyre dropped two places to be now ranked No. 44 in the world after missing the halfway cut in last week’s PGA Tour flagship Players Championship and needing to be inside the top-50 on the last Monday this month to be afforded a maiden Masters invitation.
The Oban ...
Lowry’s Super Sawgrass Showing A Big Lift For His Ryder Cup Selection.
Shane Lowry’s eighth-place finish in the PGA Tour’s flagship Players Championship is an enormous boost for his Ryder Cup selection aspirations.
Lowry’s effort at TPC Sawgrass was his first top-10 in eight events in the Tour’s wraparound 2020/21 season and also his best finish since a share of sixth last August in the WGC – FedEx St. Jude Invitational in Memphis.
In his Ryder Cup selection goal picture, it has seen Lowry jump five spots on the European ‘World’ points table to 14th on ...
Drysdale Delighted To Escape ‘Shamal’ As Paris-Ace Rozner Makes It Two In Six In Doha
Scotland’s David Drysdale was pleased to end a ‘Shamal’ free windstorm final round at his Qatar Masters campaign with a one-under par 70 for a one-over par tally in Doha.
The Borders ace has experienced the Arabian winds many times in teeing-up on the nearby Doha Golf Club course that hosted the event from 1998 to 2019 but Friday and Saturday’s 40-mph sandblast was among the toughest in 14 visits to Qatar.
But unlike the often bitterly cold Scottish breeze, the ‘Shamal’ naturally produces ...
Lowry Headed To Augusta National For Two Days Buoyed By Best Players Showing
Shane Lowry was headed straight to Georgia for two days of practice at Augusta National buoyed a likely top-10 finish at the Players Championship in Florida.
Lowry saved the best for the last day with five birdies in a four-under par 68 for a nine-under par showing on the TPC Sawgrass course at Ponte Vedra.
The effort is Lowry’s highest finish in the Tour’s flagship event in seven appearances and a big confidence-builder with it also being Lowry’s best Tour finish since a T6 last August ...
