Major Winners Els, McIlroy, Rose & Reed Among First To Pay Tribute To Jarrod Lyle.
St. Louis, Missouri ….
Major champions Ernie Els, Rory McIlroy, Justin Rose and this year’s Masters winning Patrick Reed are among the first to pay tribute to the late Jarrod Lyle.
The 36-year old Lyle passed away Wednesday night (Australian time) after a long battle with cancer, his wife announced.
“It breaks my heart to tell everyone that Jarrod is no longer with us,” Briony Lyle, said in a statement. “He passed away peacefully at 8.20 p.m. last night having spent ...
The Brothers Lowry Ready To Battle Bellerive
St. Louis, Missouri ….
Shane Lowry heads into a seventh PGA Championship with his yonger brother, Alan on the bag to do battle this week at Bellerive.
Lowry and long-time caddy, Dermot Byrne parted with a handshake following the opening round of last month’s Open Championship and with Lowry’s coach, Neil Manchip on the bag only for Lowry to miss the Carnoustie cut.
Alan Lowry has filled in the void caddying for the current World No. 88 and helping big brother to a T12th in the Canadian ...
European Tour Apologise In Sending £110,000 Carnoustie Cheque To Wrong Tommy Fleetwood.
St. Louis, Missouri …..
The European Tour has apologised to World No. 11 and England’s Tommy Fleetwood after a ‘clerical error’ led to Carnoustie prize cheque for £110,000 deposited into the account of a former club professional and now caddy by the same name but living in the U.S.
The World No. 11 ranked golfer Fleetwood earned the amount in sharing 12th place at the 147th Open Championship but for some bizarre reason the sum turned-up in the account of 58-year old now ...
Harrington Swaps 2008 Oakland Hills Closing ‘Fear Of God’ To A 2018 Bellerive Opening Fear.
St. Louis, Missouri …
Padraig Harrington’s ‘fear of God’ demeanour over the final few holes in capturing the 2008 PGA Championship has been replaced 10-years on with a fear of simply getting off to a good start at Bellerive.
Harrington captured a third Major Championship and a second in two weeks by again denying Spain’s Sergio Garcia along with American Ben Curtis to win the 90th PGA Championship at Oakland Hills in suburban Detroit.
The proud Dubliner rebounded from opening ...
Dunne Declines Web.Com Final Series & Chance At 2018/19 PGA Tour Card.
St. Louis, Missouri ….
Paul Dunne has ruled out any thought of contesting the end-of-season Web.com final series and the likelihood of earning his PGA Tour card.
Dunne tees-up tomorrow (THUS) is his first PGA Championship but struggling to find the form that earned him victory in last year’s British Masters and a share of success earlier this year in the Golf Sixes.
As well, there’s back-to-back top-10s earlier this year on the PGA Tour and with his PGA Tour earnings this year a few thousand ...
What’s The Bellerive Odds Of Zach Johnson Being Paired With Zach Johnson This Weekend.
St. Louis, Missouri …
What is the odds of Zach Johnson finding himself grouped with Zach Johnson on any of the two weekend rounds in this week’s 100th PGA Championship.
Let me explain as it’s quite simple.
There is two Zach Johnson’s competing this week at Bellerive in suburban St. Louis.
One is the 42-year old double Major winning Johnson born in Iowa City, Iowa and now residing at St. Simons Island in Georgia.
The other is the 35-year old born in Salt Lake City, Utah who found his ...
Ross Fisher Gets First Look At Bellerive & Likes What He Sees.
St. Louis, Missouri …
England’s Ross Fisher got his first look at this week’s 100th PGA Championship host course and he clearly liked what he saw.
Fisher accompanied fellow Irish Open winner Russell Knox of Scotland in playing the front nine of the Bellerive course located to the north-west of St. Louis, Missouri.
The duo, and like all other players in the field this week, were greeted by 100 degree Fahrenheit temperatures and with large electrical fans in operation behind the greens ...
