Harold Varner 111 Confirms Defence Of Australian PGA Championship.
Fort Worth, Texas …..
Harold Varner 111 confirmed he will return to Australia later this year to defend his Australian PGA Championship at the RACV Royal Pines Resort in Queensland.
The 26-year old born in famed Akron, Ohio followed-up his second-place finish after a play-off in 2o15 to win the Joe Kirkwood trophy last December by two shots courtesy of nine birdies in a closing round 65.
It was Varner 111s first success as a professional and he celebrated drinking champagne from the trophy.
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Thai Sensation Jazz Janewattananond Pinching Himself Joining Billy Horschel At Dean & Deluca Invt.
Fort Worth, TX …
It was one of those pinch yourself moments.
Jazz Janewattananond was on the first tee of the famed Colonial Country Club course and venue for this week’s PGA Tour Dean & Deluca Invitational in Fort Worth, Texas.
Asking if he could join the exciting 21-year old Thai-born star for a practice round was Billy Horschel and just two days after the Florida-born golfer ended a three-year winless drought to capture the AT & A Byron Nelson.
Jazz is no stranger to playing golf ...
BMW PGA Loses McIlroy But Gains Harrington.
This week’s BMW PGA Championship has lost one Irishman in Rory McIlroy but gains another in Padraig Harrington who is returning to competition.
Harrington has not played since the last week of February when he missed the at the Honda Classic.
He returned home to finally undergo surgery at the Mater Hospital in Dublin on a long-time troublesome trapped nerve in his shoulder.
And his recovery prediction is pretty much to plan, and in fact, it is a few earlier than expected as Harrington was targeting ...
Quiros Does Seve Proud Fantastic Par Save & Maintain Five-Shot Rocco Forte Sicily Lead … Video.
Alvaro Quiros did the memory of the late, great Seve Ballasteros proud with a remarkable par save at the final hole to maintain a five-shot lead heading to the final round of the Rocco Forte Open in Sicily.
After finding a fairway bunker down the left side at the 18th Quiros got a flyer in the bright but very windy conditions and with his ball landing well left off the green and coming to rest on a unpaved gritty pathway close to the scorers hut and not far from going out-of-bounds.
The Spaniard ...
Hoey Revives Memories Of Alfred Dunhill Victory Heading To Sicily Deciding Rounds.
Michael Hoey revived memories of his Alfred Dunhill Links victory as he kept alive a goal to regain full Tour membership with a gutsy 68 and be right in contention heading to the closing two rounds of the Rocco Forte Open at Verdura, Sicily.
Hoey looked right at home in the bright but tougher day two windier conditions grabbing six birdies and half as many bogeys that snared the early clubhouse lead at 13-under par along the shores of the “Med”.
Hoey, 38 was out in the morning half of the draw ...
Swede Fredrik From Comes From Four Back To Win Pattana Cship By Three.
A stunning birdie blitz coming home powered Fredrik From to a convincing three-shot victory in the MENA Tour’s rain-truncated Pattana Golf Championship on Friday.
Starting the day a good four shots back, From blazed the course with a bogey-free nine-under 63, studded with seven birdies on the back nine, to seal his first win on the MENA Tour on 13-under 131 and a second for a Swede after Per Barth, who achieved the feat at the 2015 Shaikh Maktoum Dubai Open.
Venezuela’s Wolmer Murillo reeled ...
Jason Day Revives Memories Of Seve But As Thoughts Turn To John Sendon’s Son.
Jason Day relived memories of the late, great Seve Ballesteros in making a birdie from a cart path midway through his round on day one of the AT & T Byron Nelson in Texas.
Day hit a booming 326–yard drive well right at the par four 11th hole that came to rest on a cart path and just less than 3o–yards from the hole.
And with TV analysts suggesting the new World No. 3 had no chance of finding the green the Queenslander defied the critics chipping off the concrete pathway to brilliantly land ...
