Stricker Jokes Harrington Will Face A Tough Time In The Badger State.
Padraig Harrington’s likely USA Ryder Cup rival captain and Wisconsin-native Steve Stricker joked Padraig Harrington will be in for a tough time when he leads his European Team into competition later next year in the Badger State.
Stricker is widely-tipped to be handed the USA Captaincy reins possibly later this month when the PGA Tour’s Honda Classic returns to PGA National and where the PGA of America’s HQ is located.
Like Harrington, Stricker ticks all the USA captaincy boxes and more.
The ...
McDowell Doubly Excited To Be Returning To Pebble Beach Twice In 2019
Graeme McDowell is doubly excited to be returning to Pebble Beach twice this year.
McDowell has shaken off a wrist injury that forced him out of last fortnight’s Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines to commence his new season further north on the spectacular Pacific Ocean Californian shoreline at Pebble Beach.
It is just the third occasion McDowell has competed at Pebble Beach since brilliantly capturing the 2010 U.S. Open championship.
He returned to the course in 2014 to finish T7th in the ...
Knox Declares ‘Common Sense Has Prevailed’ After Recent Rules Fiasco.
Pebble Beach, California ….
Top-ranked Scot Russell Knox declared ‘common sense’ has prevailed with the decision to lift the bizarre restrictions on caddies lining-up their players.
After the fiasco of the past few weeks, the R & A and USGA jointly announced Rule 10.2b (4) has been ‘clarified’ after the scenario that saw China’s Haotong Li slapped with a two-stroke penalty at the Dubai Desert Classic and American Denny McCarthy also penalised at the Phoenix Open but then have the ...
McIlroy Positive He Can Still Win The Masters & By Age 30.
Rory McIlroy again has insisted he is “positive” he will complete his career Grand Slam at the Masters ahead of ‘Take Five’ in that quest in April.
Only five players have won all four of the modern Majors but then none of those four needed more than three attempts to win the final leg of the most exclusive club in the history of golf.
McIlroy will return to Augusta National again looking to join Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Tiger Woods as the only players to have ...
Koepka Slams Garcia As ‘Acting Like A Child’.
Triple Major winning Brooks Koepka has pulled no punches in declaring Sergio Garcia acted ‘like a child’ following controversy at last week’s inaugural Saudi International where the Spaniard was disqualified from the event for damaging a number of greens.
Garia later issued an apology and with the European Tour’s CEO, Keith Pelley accepting the apology.
However, and much to the surprise of many observers, the 2017 Masters champion avoided a fine and also a suspension and this ...
Lowry Returns To The States Confident Of Securing Masters Invitation
Shane Lowry has returned to golf’s richest stage for a first occasion in nearly six months confident of securing a Masters invitation.
Lowry will team with Gerry McManus, and the younger brother of J P McManus, in this week’s Euro 6.64m PGA Tour AT & T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in California.
The Offlay golfer is no stranger to the event and returns with a real spring in his step having capturing last month’s European Tour Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship.
However, by not contesting last week’s ...
McIlroy Drops Honda Classic From His New-Look Season Schedule
Pebble Beach, California …
Rory McIlroy will surprise many with a decision not to contest the Honda Classic starting later this month in Florida.
The new World No. 9 ranked McIlroy, and a former Honda Classic champion and also event runner-up, has revealed his schedule up to and including the Masters in April and it does not include teeing-up at the Tour stop closest to his palatial Bears Club abode in clisebyJupiter.
Another casualty of his new-look 2019 schedule is McIlroy’s decision to ...
