McIlroy Obliged Under Tour Rules To Add Canadian Open To His Schedule
Rory McIlroy may have politely declined to contest this year’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Open but it would seem there was no escaping a new PGA Tour mandate that states players who contested less than 25 tournaments a season must add a tournament they have never contested.
Hence the news McIlroy has added the RBC Canadian Open to his schedule and it is little wonder organisers of the only Canadian event on the Tour are excited.
We’ve seen the same reaction this week at the ...
Harrington Has Wrist Taped But Uses His Head To Deposit Respectable Maybank 70 In KL.
Padraig Harrington had his injured wrist strapped but used his head in posting a respectable style with a round of a two-under par 70 on day one of the Maybank Championship in Kuala Lumpur.
The triple Major winner, and sporting a bit of a post-festive season girth, headed to the Saujana clubhouse five shots behind Aussie Marcus Fraser and Spaniard Nacho Elvira who each posted five-under par 67s.
It is Harrington’s first competitive round anywhere in 130 days and since posting a final round 69 to ...
Beware The Injury Golfer As Harrington Tees-Up In KL With His Injured Wrist Not Fully Healed
Beware the injured golfer
Padraig Harrington, and not for a first time in his long and very distinguished career, tees-up in Kuala Lumpur for a tenth time in his career with the uncertainty his injured wrist is not fully healed ahead of this week’s co-sanctioned Maybank Championship.
Harrington had been due to commence his 14th season in the pro ranks earlier this year in the Middle East while the injury, suffered mid-December when he slipped down the staircase in his house, also ruled him out ...
Harrington Gets Okay To Return To Competition In This Week’s Maybank Championship
Padraig Harrington has arrived in Kuala Lumpur and this week’s Maybank Championship quietly confident his injured wrist has fully healed ahead of teeing-up on the Saujana CC course.
This week is ‘take two’ in Harrington’s attempt to kick-start his 2019 season after injuring his wrist on December 19th after slipping on the staircase of his Dublin residence. It wasn’t till he underwent an x-ray that he broken a bone in his wrist.
The injury was no more evident when Harrington ...
Knox Singles Out New Aussie Coach For Praise As Scot Makes It 10 Cuts From 10 New Season Events.
Russell Knox has singled out new Aussie new coach, Bradley Hughes for praise after the Scot made it 10 cuts from as many events following last week’s ultra-lucrative Players Championship in Florida.
Knox has been golf’s ‘Mr. Consistency’ not having missed a halfway cut since last October’s Tour event in Shanghai.
Just once before in a now 175-event PGA Tour career has Knox produced a better run of consistency and that was 12 weekend cuts in succession from finishing T2nd at the ...
MacIntyre’s 11-Event, Eight Nation Rookie Runs End With Magical Kenyan Open Course Record
Rookie Robert MacIntyre is heading home to Scotland on high after ending what has been an 11-event, eight-nation journey with a course record 63 on the final day of the Magical Kenyan Open.
The Scottish lefty leap-fr0gged 40 places on the final day and into an eventual share of 17th place thanks to an 11th hole eagle and six birdies, including three in succession from the second hole on the Karen GC course in Nairobi.
MacIntyre has been travelling the main Tour for a first time in his career ...
McIlroy Slams Tour Tortoises Declaring PGA Tour Slow Play As ‘An Epidemic’
Now that Rory McIlroy’s on the PGA Tour Players Advisory Board maybe we might get some PGA action on coming down hard on the Tour tortoises.
The normally even-tempered McIlroy was fuming in declaring slow play is becoming ‘an epidemic’ on the PGA Tour.
And McIlroy not only slams the Tour tortoises but the inaction of the PGA Tour in singling out the slow-coaches.
“Tour officials don’t do anything about it,” said McIlroy, who along with playing partners Phil Mickelson and Matt ...
