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St. Louis, Missouri … Rory McIlroy hit the Bellerive practice range Monday in searing 100-degree F temperatures looking to pick-up the pieces from Sunday’s Bridgestone meltdown. He hit balls for about an hour in the sauna-like conditions before heading to downtown St. Louis to join Sergio Garcia and Tommy Fleetwood again hitting balls under the famed ‘Gateway to the West’ arch located on the banks of the Mississippi River. He tees-up this week a double champion in the 100th staging ...

Akron, Ohio … Tiger Woods returns this week to St. Louis and the Bellerive Country Club 17-years after being ‘pulled from the course’ on the day of the 9/11 terror attacks. Woods was out practicing in the Missouri capital ahead of the 2001 WGC – AMEX Championship when the World Trade Centre was brought down by two terrorist manned airliners. AMEX event organisers wasted little time cancelling the event in the wake of the terrorist attack on New York and Washington and ...

Akron, Ohio ….. Rory McIlroy heads to the year’s final Major lamenting a dismal closing display in the final WGC – Bridgestone Invitational. McIlroy faded from all contention in posting a closing round 73 for an eight-under par tally to finish in a distant share of sixth place in the hot and humid conditions on the Firestone course in Akron, Ohio. This week’s defending PGA champion, Justin Thomas who, except from hitting a spectator on the 17th, was never under threat in signing for ...

Akron, Ohio ….  Wade Ormsby returns home for a month’s holiday in wintery Adelaide warmed having played the closing two rounds of his first appearance in the WGC – Bridgestone Invitational alongside World No. 1 Dustin Johnson and then the final round in the company of the eight-time winning Tiger Woods. It turned into an all-Australian affair for Woods in the last staging of the Bridgestone sponsored event. Woods had contested the opening two rounds in he company of Jason Day, ...

Akron, Ohio …. Open Champion, Francesco Molinari ended his four-day WGC – Bridgestone Invitational campaign running virtually on the smell of a Firestone oily rag. The first Italian to win a Major Championship posted Akron rounds of 70, 72, 70 and 69 for a one-over par tally that handed Molinari a top-40 finish. Molinari was competing in the final Bridgetone event for an eighth occasion in his career and admitted, given his recent trans-Atlantic busy schedule, he was not at his 2018 season ...

Akron, Ohio … Shabhankar Sharma wasted little time after completing the WGC – Bridgestone Invitational and heading south-east to St. Louis for this week’s PGA Championship. Sharma walked from the Firestone Country Club course at noon Sunday local time with a final round 70 for a 13-over par tally. It was the current World No. 88 first appearance in the event and on the occasion of the final Bridgestone hosted event in Akron, Ohio. Included in Sharma’s closing round was three birdies and ...

Akron, Ohio … Russell Knox is quietly condfident there is a low score in his bag heading to the final round of the final WGC – Bridgestone Invitational. Knox never managed to fully recover from a third hole double bogey in eventually posting a three-over par 73 and drop back to level par in the $10m event. It left him trailing 11 shots behind American Justin Thomas who signed for a 67 to lead the field by three shots on 14-under par into the closing 18 holes of the $10m tournament. The ...