Tiger Woods Out & Aussie Marcus Fraser Into 145th Open Championship.
Tiger Woods has advised officials that he will not contest next fortnight’s Open Championship at Royal Troon.
The 14-time Major winning Woods place has been taken by Aussie Marcus Fraser who was on the reserve list into golf’s oldest Major.
News that Wood will not tee up at Royal Troon comes as no surprise given the 40-year old Woods has not competed in almost 11 months since finishing 10th in the PGA Tour’s Wyndham Championship.
Also Woods has offered no timetable on a possible ...
McIlroy’s Work In Progress Swing Sends Him To Share 100th French Open Second Day Lead.
Rory McIlroy sounded a clear warning to his rivals drawing on a ‘work in progress’ swing and muscle his way to a share of the lead on day two of the 100th French Open near Versailles.
The four-time Major winner was in a class of his own, and despite finding water down the 18th for a second day in succession, posted a five under par 66 for a similar 36-hole tally on the National course.
The World No. 4 and reigning Irish Open winner shares the lead with four others including Korean ...
Florida Alligator Gives New Meaning To … Over The Fence Is Out-Of-Bounds. (Video)
A Florida alligator has given new meaning to the golfing terms … ‘Over the fence is out-of-bounds’.
It could be a case of ‘I don’t want to be a member of this course any longer’ or the gator could have taken exception to his playing partners.
And there’s the scenario the gator could have gotten a better offer.
Anyway check out this video taken of an alligator ‘legging it’ over the fence at the Hideaway Country Club course in Fort Myers.
Second Ace, New Tour Record & Magnum Of Champers Fails To Lift Dunne’s French Open Spirits.
Not even a Tour record for the quickest pair of aces by a rookie could lessen Paul Dunne’s disappointment in missing the cut in the 100th French Open.
Dunne holed out with a 4-iron at the eighth hole in an eventual round of a 78 for a shock seven over par tally and just three days after finishing top of the class for a second year running at an Open Championship qualifier at Woburn.
The ace was Dunne’s second on Tour after holing out at the 15th hole at Kingsbarns and in the first round as a ...
Paul Lawrie Going Head-To-Head With Jean Van de Velde In Aberdeen
Former Open champion Paul Lawrie is set to face Frenchman Jean Van de Velde and the player he defeated to capture the 1999 Open Championship in Lawrie’s now annual challenge match at his golf centre in Aberdeen, Scotland.
The challenge match will take place at 1pm on Monday, July 18th and the day after this year’s Open Championship and in the week Van de Velde will make his British Senior’s Open debut at Carnoustie and where he saw the Claret Jug slip through his fingers.
Lawrie ...
Lee-Anne Pace First Female To Pull Plug On Rio Olympics But Surely Not The Last
South African Lee-Anne Pace has become the first high-profile female golfer to withdraw from the Rio Olympics and citing fears over the Zika virus.
The 35-year old Pace, who was born in Paal, South Africa is a nine-time European Tour winner and has one victory on the LPGA Tour in capturing the 2014 Blue Bay Classic.
But like her male counterparts, and including compatriots Charl Schwartzel, Louis Oosthuizen and Branden Grace, she’s not about to risk contracting the virus by teeing-up in Rio.
“I ...
McIlroy Reckons Likes Of Rose, Knox & Lingmerth Will Regret Not Competing In France.
Four-time Major winning Rory McIlroy reckons the likes of Justin Rose, Shane Lowry. Russell Knox, Soren Kjeldsen and David Lingmerth have missed a golden opportunity to secure a place in the 2016 European Ryder Cup team.
That’s because the trio of European Tour members have elected to contest the WGC – Bridgestone Invitational rather than tee up in the 100th French Open.
European Tour officials reacted to the PGA Tour’s decision to stage the Bridgestone Invitational the same week ...
