Harrington Secures Best Major Finish In Eight Years But Laughs Off Teeing-Up In Ryder Cup
Padraig Harrington laughed off any suggestions of teeing-up later this year at the Ryder Cup following a best finish in the majors in eight years.
Harrington, 49, brilliantly rolled back the years to post a final round 69 and a score matched by playing partner and countryman Shane Lowry to be then tied for clubhouse lead but technically sharing fourth place at the 103rd PGA Championship at Kiawah Island.
The fellow Open Champions began the last round at one-over par and after the closing 18 holes ...
MacIntyre ‘Livid’ After A Penultimate Hole Bitter Blow At Kiawah Island.
A bitterly disappointed Robert MacIntyre can return home with his head held high despite a bitter 71st hole blow at the PGA Championship at Kiawah Island.
MacIntyre, 24, again continued to impress in firstly making it five halfway cuts from as many majors on Friday and then holding his own over the weekend to eventually sign for one over par 73 and an eventual five-over par tally.
After the clear disappointment of bogeying the last a day earlier, MacIntyre burst from the blocks on day four with a ...
Mickelson Creates Historic First In Pro Golf: “Can You Move That Drone?”
Phil Mickelson may be on his way to a historic PGA Championship triumph but he was leaving nothing to chance and also creating history of another kind early on day three at Kiawah Island.
Mickelson has chosen a 6-iron and was about to play his second shot at the par-4 fourth hole when he spotted a drone in the South Carolina sky.
The drone was not making a noise as it was well in the distance as he prepared to play a shot of 178-yards into a 12mph wind.
Bizarrely, the drone was in Mickelson’s ...
MacIntyre Ready To Challenge Predicted 30mph Kiawah Winds
Top-ranked Scot Robert MacIntyre’s determined to challenge the expected 30mph winds predicted could wreak havoc over the final round of the PGA Championship at Kiawah Island.
MacIntyre had superbly made it five halfway cuts from five majors in finding his way into the weekend rounds and was rock solid for 17 holes before the bitter disappointment of a bogey at the last in a third round of a level par 72.
The effort dropped the top-ranked Scot back to four-over to head to the clubhouse just outside ...
Lowry Brilliantly Saves Par From Altantic Ocean Shoreline.
Shane Lowry pulled-off the par saves of all par saves from the Kiawah Island beachfront on day two of the 103rd PGA Championship,
Lowry’s brilliant par near mid-round, and coming after he’d dropped a shot the hole before, helped the Clara golfer posting a one-under par 70 and get back to level par in the increasingly windy conditions in South Carolina.
The reigning Open Champion ended his round just outside the top-20 and tied in the clubhouse with fellow Irishman Padraig Harrington.
Lowry’s ...
‘Bullish’ Harrington Muscles His Way Into Kiawah Weekend Rounds
A ‘bullish’ Padraig Harrington needed all his experience of now 21 PGA Championships to fight his way into the weekend rounds at Kiawah Island.
Harrington ended a run of three missed cuts in the championship he won in 2008 with rounds of 71 and 73 for a 36-hole level par tally on a continuing testing windswept Kiawah Island course.
The Dubliner grabbed three birdies but posted four bogeys to finish just inside the top-30 and trailing five shots behind early clubhouse leader, Phil Mickelson.
Mickelson, ...
McIlroy Sours His Triumphant Return To Kiawah Island
Near on a decade ago after a then fresh-faced, curly-haired Rory McIlroy strode triumphantly down the final hole to win his second major and Kiawah Island regained some revenge with McIlroy posting an error-filled three-over par 75 on the 103rd hosting of the PGA Championship.
It’s not the first time he’s shot 75 at Kiawah as he posted that same score on day two in 2012 but that was in ‘would blow a dog of a chain’ conditions on the severely windswept Atlantic Ocean course. It was also ...
