Monty Makes It Three Senior Major Titles Holding Onto His PGA C’ship Title.
Scotland’s Colin Montgomerie now has three Senior Major titles to his credit after shooting a three under par 69 to successfully defend his Senior PGA Championship title in Indiana.
Monty posted a four-round 8-under tally on the Pete Dye Course at French Lick Resort and four shots fewer than his rivals that ensures he’s won three of the past six Senior major championships.
The 51-year-old Monty Scot won last year at Harbor Shores in Michigan, and also won the U.S. Senior Open in July ...
Tommy Fleetwood Getting More Recognition For His Hair Than His Golf.
Hotshot England golfer Tommy Fleetwood is looking to secure more recognition for more than his unruly locks with victory in the BMW PGA Championship.
Fleetwood, 24 brought the famed ‘Burma Road’ course to its knees with a sizzling 65 that included a career first albatross along with an eagle and three birdies.
It left the Southport-born pro, who captured the 2013 Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles, trailing just three shots behind the leading duo Italy’s Francesco Molinari (68) and the ...
Shane Lowry Gets The Cuff Links & Now The X-Box In Winning BMW PGA Pro-Am.
First it was missing out on a pair of ‘Players 2015’ commemorative cuff links and this week it was missing on the Pro-Am leading prize of a £350 X-Box.
Tournament Director, Jamie Birkmyer was waiting for the Dubliner after his second successive round of 67 that put the current World No. 55 ranked player into seventh place at eight under par on day three of the BMW PGA Championship.
Lowry was runner-up last year to World No. 1 Rory McIlroy and now with a round to play surely will be entertaining ...
Rory McIlroy Finds Too Many Potholes On BMW PGA ‘Burma Road’.
World No. 1 Rory McIlroy’s efforts to play five events in succession back-fired when he easily missed the cut in the BMW PGA Championship.
McIlroy found too many potholes along the famed ‘Burma Road’ course horribly posting a six-over par 78 for an uncharacteristic five over par tally.
It was less a week ago McIlroy shot a career-best 61 on route to victory in the Wells Fargo Championship but in competing in Europe for a first time this year the four-time Major Champion was very much short ...
Leading Aussie Golf Journos Rocking At Wells Fargo.
Australia’s top two full-time golf journalists were caught last week ‘rocking’ the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow.
Andrew Both and your esteemed editor have covered golf on both sides of ‘The Pond’ for more than three decades with Andrew having worked the PGA Tour and myself concentrating on the European Tour.
In between we have bumped into each other more times than we can remember and with our latest get together last week in suburban Charlotte.
So way better ...
Young Irish Lad Wins High Praise From Rory McIlroy.
World No. 1 Rory McIlroy has a new hero in young Cork born Sean Reddy.
With thanks to the Irish Examiner, and one of my contributing newspapers, there is the story of McIlroy meeting the eight year old during his visit to London’s Nike mega store on Monday night.
er’s autograph.
Reddy, a pupil at Gaelscoil Uí Drisceoil in Glanmire, Cork, was discovered by Nike executives after taking a few swings in a golf simulator at Niketown in London.
Reddy had a whirlwind few days last weekend ...
Harrington Hopeful Of Qualifying For U.S. Open Despite Wentworth Withdrawal.
Padraig Harrington’s chances of qualifying for next month’s US Open shortened after a right shoulder injury forced him out after just two holes of the BMW PGA Championship.
Harrington, and currently ranked 83rd in the world, has to rely on qualifying for the US Open at next Monday’s 36-hole qualifier at Walton Heath or finishing top-three at next week’s Irish Open or the following week’s FedEx St. Jude Classic in Memphis.
Harrington had been in doubt all week with the injury he sustained ...
