Fellow Masters Winners Willett & Singh Join Other Major Champions Praising Garcia.
Hilton Head, SC …
Fellow Masters winners Danny Willett and Vijay Singh have joined other Major Champions in singling out new Masters Champion Sergio Garcia for very special praise.
It was Willett who fitted Garcia with the Augusta National members green jacket and with everyone looking on clearly delighted in how the European pair interacted on the presentation green.
“Last week was a great week and as for the two guys fighting it out on Sunday, it could not have been a better week,” ...
Garcia Looks Back To His First Pro Career Victory – 1999 Irish Open.
Hilton Head, SC …
New Masters Champion Sergio Garcia has looked back 18 years not to the events at Augusta National but to Druids Glen when he claimed the first of now 31 pro career victories.
While the golf world warms to Garcia finally capturing a first Major it was on 4th July, 1999 he won a first pro title with victory in the Murphy’s Irish Open.
Garcia, then aged 19, became the fourth youngest winner in the history of the European Tour in coming two shots behind future Masters Champion ...
Garcia Has A Green Jacket, McIlroy Wants A New Golf Ball.
Augusta, GA …
Sergio Garcia has an Augusta green jacket life while Rory McIlroy cannot find a new golf ball quick enough.
For a fourth Masters in succession McIlroy turned his back on Augusta National being left short-changed in finishing inside the top-10.
That’s more top-10s than the three Garcia had in a 15-year period up until Sunday’s maiden Major triumh.
Next year will mark the 10th anniversary of McIlroys maiden Masters showing and it will also be ‘Take Four’ in his attempt ...
Jason Day Responds After His Wife Tells The Aussie To ‘Man-Up’
Augusta, GA …
A night after being told to ‘man up-‘ by his wife the last thing Jason Day wanted was losing to the multiple winning Augusta National Club Champion on day three of the Masters.
Day had been in no mood for a long fireside chat after bogeying the last hole late on Friday to find himself last in the field among those who made the halfway cut.
It meant a first out tee-time at 10.20 am local time for the former World No. 1.
However, the night before it had not been the ...
Curtis Luck Now Targets Masters Low Amateur Medal
Augusta, GA ..
Reigning U.S. Amateur and Asia Pacific Amateur champion Curtis Luck is not targeting ending his amateur career with the ”Low Amateur’ award at this year’s Masters.7
The 20-year old Perth-born Luck turned around a very disappointing opening round of 78 and fight his way back inside the top-50 with a second day level par 72 to remain at six over par in bright but continuing blustery and cold conditions.
After nine straight holes, Luck finally managed a first birdie ...
Russell Knox Admits His Mother Could Have Chipped Better Post Shock Masters 76.
Augusta, GA …
Russell Knox bluntly admitted his mother could have chipped better after the disappointment of a four over par 76 in tough conditions on the opening day of the Masters.
Knox, and making jus this second appearance at Augusta National, should have felt more at home in the bright but windy and cold conditions, but he again struggled in managing just one birdie but also three bogeys and a 14th hole double bogey.
The effort handed the Scot a then share of 66th place in a Masters field ...
Biggest England Invasion Stateside Since The Beatles.
Augusta, GA …
It can be labelled as one of the biggest England invasion to the States since the Beatles.
A record-setting 11 England-born players will tee-up later today in the 2017 Masters at Augusta National.
Leading the England Armada is the proud duo of Olympic Gold Medal winning Justin Rose and defending Masters champion Danny Willett and stretches all the way to Portsmouth’s Scott Gregory.
Gregory, as the reigning British Amateur champ, is coming off a Georgia Cup victory last week ...
