Russell Knox Avoids Repeat 17th Hole Sawgrass Water Torture.
Russell Knox returns to Europe buoyed by a Players Championship final round and a dozen shots fewer after Saturday’s TPC Sawgrass water torture disaster.
Know is bound for Dublin, and Thursday’s starting Irish Open, in posting a last day 68 for a five under par tally on the Stadium course.
However, it was the events late Saturday local time that the local Jacksonville-based Scot was left ruing in putting three balls into the water on route to a ‘9’ at the infamous island-green par three 17th, ...
Rory McIlroy Heads To Ireland Lamenting Continuing ‘Silly’ Mistakes At Sawgrass.
A frustrated Rory McIlroy returns home still seeking to rid ‘silly’ mistakes from his game ahead of hosting Thursday’s starting Dubai Duty Free Irish Open at the K. Club.
McIlroy again this season promised much after a sizzling second day showing at TPC Sawgrass only to end in a supporting role with a closing 71 for a seven under par and a share of 12th place at Ponte Vedre in Florida.
In the nine PGA Tour counting stroke-play events McIlroy played this season there has been rounds of brilliance ...
Jason Day Fuming After Sawgrass Double Bogey Declaring: “It’s A Joke!”
World No. 1 Jason Day was fuming and hurling his ball into the water after taking a crippling double bogey ‘6’ at the sixth hole early into his third round of the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass.
Day found the green in regulation and landing his second shot just 18-feet from the hole but then proceeded to take four putts.
The reigning PGA Champion had been three shots clear of the field at the time.
After despatching his ball to the alligator-infested depths Day could clearly be ...
Jason Day Set To Break Boyhood Hero Greg Norman’s 36-Hole Players Mark.
World No. 1 Jason Day still has four holes to break the 36-hole low mark of boyhood hero Greg Norman in moving to 14-under par through two rounds of the Players Championship.
Day’s opening round of a nine under par 63 matched the effort of Norman at the 1994 Players while Day’s second day achievement of moving to 14-under par through 14 holes has already matched a Norman’s 36-hole mark also in 1994.
Play will resume at 9.15am local time and with Day heading out to the 15th hole ...
Rory McIlroy Spoils Sawgrass Record With Closing Hole Bogey.
World No. 3 Rory McIlroy remained upbeat despite letting slip posting a new course record on day two of the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass.
Needing to birdie the last to send his name into Sawgrass records, McIlroy walked off with a disappointing bogey in a round of an eight under par 64 for a similar 36-hole tally at Ponte Vedre in Florida.
It meant missing out on a clubhouse share of third place and head to lunch tied sixth and just two adrift of the leading European-born duo of Sweden’s ...
Jason Day Matches Boyhood Idol Greg Norman With Sizzling Sawgrass 63.
World No. 1 Jason Day matched the effort of boyhood idol Greg Norman and in the process becoming only the the fifth player to equal the course record at TPC Sawgrass at Ponte Vedre in Florida.
The reigning PGA Champion was in a class of his own grabbing nine birdies in perfect conditions in a round of a nine under par 63 to lead the $US 10.5m Players Championship by two strokes.
Day’s round is his lowest since a similar round of 63 on day three of last August’s Barclays Championship and ...
Shane Lowry Singles Out ‘Emergency Call’ To Coach As Key To Players Back Nine Low.
Ireland’s Shane Lowry singled out what he described as an ‘emergency’ call to his coach as leading to setting a new back nine course record on day one of the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass in Florida.
Lowry also posted his equal lowest 2015/16 PGA wraparound season score of a seven-under par 65 to head to lunch trailing two shots off the clubhouse lead set by World No. 1 Jason Day.
Day’s score matched the course record set by boyhood hero Greg Norman and established by the Great ...
