G Mac Harbouring Three Big Positives Heading Into FedEx Cup Play-Offs.
Graeme McDowell is assured of one celebration later this month and would dearly love to make it a triple delight.
His wife, Kristin is due to give birth to the couple’s second child on August 29th and a day before fellow Irishman Darren Clarke will announce his three Ryder Cup ‘wildcard’ picks.
McDowell is currently 20th on the European Team points standing and needing a top of the board finish in this week’s Wyndham Championship, and in theory the final PGA Tour qualifying event for European-born ...
Love 111 Looking Not Only To End Europe’s Dominance But Concerned Tiger Woods Could Be Hazeltine Distraction.
USA Captain, Davis Love 111 not only has the worry later next month of striving to end Europe’s Ryder Cup dominance but he’s concerned Tiger Woods could be a major Hazeltine distraction.
The seven-time Ryder Cup-capped Woods is one of five USA vice-captains appointed by Love 111.
But then Love 111 believes he will need to advise Woods, who has not competed on the PGA Tour since the Wyndham Championship a year ago, to be wary of his movements about the Ryder Cup host venue.
“Tiger’s already ...
G Mac Reckons Russell Knox Is Deserving A Hazeltine ‘Wildcard’ Pick.
Four-time Ryder Cup star Graeme McDowell believes Scotland’s Russell Knox is deserving of a Hazeltine ‘wildcard’ pick.
McDowell is making his first appearance in this week’s Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina.
It is the final Ryder Cup counting event on the PGA Tour for European Tour members.
And while McDowell, who is 11 places outside of qualifying, is not so positive about his own chances of competing in a fifth straight European Team he believes Knox, who is lying ...
‘Tin Cup’ – 20 Years On No One Remembers Who Won But We All Remember Roy’s 12 At The Last.
Greensboro, N, C …. Today August 16th is the 20th anniversary of the US release of the golf theme movie ‘Tin Cup’.
Roy “Tin Cup” McAvoy, played by Kevin Costner, is a former golf prodigy who has little ambition but all thanks to Hollywood goes within one hole of capturing the U.S. Open.
At the beginning of the movie we learn Roy owns a run-down West Texas driving range, where he drinks and hangs out with his pal Romeo Posar (Cheech Marin) and their friends.
But then ...
McGinley Aglow Heading To Start Of Olympic Games Women’s Medal Chase.
Irish Olympic Captain Paul McGinley is clearly on a high ahead of the Olympic Women’s Golf competition commencing tomorrow (WED) in Rio de Janeiro.
Stephanie Meadows and amateur Leona Maguire will strive to do what Padraig Harrington and Seamus Powers could not and that is to deliver Ireland a golfing gold medal.
And after the most thrilling outcome all season in the men’s competition, McGinley was aglow the ancient club-and-ball game has been such a smash hit in the modern Olympics.
“The final ...
McIlroy Not Only Gives Up Olympic Gold But Drops To A Two-Year Low On World Rankings.
Rory McIlroy not only gave up the chance of an Olympic Gold medal but he’s now No. 5 on the World Rankings after Sweden’s Henrik Stenson moved to a career high of No. 4 on the back of finishing runner-up in Rio.
McIlroy’s world ranking is the lowest since finishing T14th in the 2014 Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open that saw him drop to No. 8 in the world. However after capturing The Open a week later he went back to World No. 2 and then onto World No. 1 in winning the WGC ...
Rose Reckons Waiting For 2020 Tokyo Olympics Won’t Sit Well With McIlroy & Fellow Rio Absentees.
Greensboro, North Carolina … Olympic Gold medal winning Justin Rose reckons having to wait four years to the 2020 Olympic Games won’t sit well with the likes of Rory McIlroy and his fellow Rio Games absentees.
McIlroy was among more than 20 top players to withdraw from the Games with the four-time Major winner citing concerns over the Zika virus but later admitting that major championships remained the “pinnacle” of the sport and he would only watch “the stuff that ...
