Four Irish Lining The Bar At Houston ‘Last Masters Chance Saloon’.
Houston, TX ….
Four Irish will breast the bar at the Houston Open Last Chance Saloon this week seeking the final invitation into next week’s Masters.
The four – Padraig Harrington, Shane Lowry, Seamus Power and Paul Dunne – tee-up in the $7m event looking to join Rory McIlroy in the year’s first Major.
Harrington is no stranger to the Golf Club of Houston course having contested the event on 1o occasions since 2006 with a best finish of eighth in 2011.
Lowry is making his third appearance ...
Spieth Bluntly Admits He’s Gone To Augusta Before Feeling Lower Than He Now Feels.
Houston. TX …
In a very blunt admission Jordan Spieth says he has headed into a prior Masters in poorer form than the current crestfallen nature of Texas golfer’s golf game.
The 24-year old Dallas native tees-up this week on Lone Star State home soil and in the Houston Open not having tasted success since capturing last year’s back-to-back Travelers Championship in Connecticut and then collecting a third Major with victory at The Open championship at Royal Birkdale.
Spieth did go ...
From Canoeists To PGA Tour Pros – Spieth & Fowler Praise Houston GC Recovery.
Houston, TX ….
Eight months ago, there was the sight of canoeists rowing down the first fairway of this week’s host Houston Open golf course.
Hurricane Harvey deluged America’s fourth largest city and with the Golf Club of Houston submerged under four-feet of water.
Among those praising the work to restore the course back to championship standard is the leading American duo of Jordan Spieth and Rickie Fowler.
Spieth, and a native of Dallas, missed the cut in the event a year ago but tees-up ...
Rose Returns To The Masters Treating Augusta National A ‘Fresh Boby Of Work’.
Justin Rose returns to Augusta National with no regrets, no play-off loss hangover and treating this year’s Masters as a fresh ‘body of work’.
Indeed, Rose has won enormous praise over the past 51 weeks given how he’s handled his sudden-death loss to Sergio Garcia and that was no more evident at last year’s green jacket presentation ceremony.
Now after three wins at the tail of last year and with four top-10s in six PGA Tour events this year, and the exact same number of top-10s ...
Four Irish Breasting The Bar At The Houston Open ‘Masters Last Chance Saloon’.
Houston, Texas …
Four Irish will breast the bar at the Houston Open Last Chance Saloon seeking the final invitation into next week’s Masters.
The four – Padraig Harrington, Shane Lowry, Seamus Power and Paul Dunne – tee-up in the $7m event looking to join Rory McIlroy in the year’s first Major.
Harrington is no stranger to the Golf Club of Houston course having contested the event on 1o occasions since 2006 with a best finish of eighth in 2011.
Lowry is making his third appearance looking ...
Watson Desperate To Be On USA Ryder Cup Team Flight To France.
Houston, TX ….
New WGC – Dell Technologies Match-Play champion, Bubba Watson headed off on an ‘overseas’ family holiday but with Watson desperate later this year to be on a flight to Paris.
Watson captured a second WGC title, a second victory this new season and the 11th PGA Tour win of his pro career with a convincing 7 & 6 triumph overfellow American Kevin Kisner in the final in Austin, Texas.
It was the biggest margin of victory in a final since 2008 when Tiger Woods won 8 & ...
Paul Dunne Houston-Bound After Tour-Best Dominican Top-10 Finish.
Austin, TX …..
It was double Irish delight for Paul Dunne and Seamus Power with each securing their best PGA Tour results by sharing fifth place in the Corales Puntacana Championship staged in the Dominion Republic.
Both Irishman grabbed easily their highest PGA Tour finish in two years with Dunne signing for a closing three-under par 69 and Power a 71 and with the duo among eight players at 11-under par and just a stroke inside the leading 10 given 10-under shared 13th place.
The top-10 ...
