Martin Laird Muscles His Way To One Shot Shy Wyndham C’ship Lead.
Martin Laird muscled his way into a share of third place and just one shot from the lead after two rounds of the Wyndham Championship at Greensboro, North Carolina.
Laird picked off seven birdies including three in succession from his 12th hole in a round of a four under par 66 and a nine under par total on the Sedgefield Country Club course.
It put the Scot just a stroke adrift of the leading American duo of Heath Slocum and Scott Langley, and each posting 65s for 10-under par totals.
Laird teed-up ...
Harrington Finds Himself In Unfamiliar Territory In Losing His PGA Tour Card.
Padraig Harrington finds himself now in unfamiliar territory having lost full membership of the PGA Tour in missing the halfway cut in the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Harrington walked from the Sedgefield Country Club course at 1pm local time having putted out for a par in a second straight score of a two over par 72 for four over par total and miss the expected halfway cut by five shots.
It is the first time since joining the PGA Tour full time in 2007 Harrington now finds ...
Golf Legends Goalby & Finsterwald Add To 75th Anniversary Wyndham C’ship Celebration.
Golfing legends Bob Goalby and Dow Finsterwald added to the celebration of this year’s 75th anniversary Wyndham Championship.
Goalby, 85 is well known in virtually being handed victory in the 1968 Masters after Argentina’s Robert De Vincenzo signed for a four at the 17rh when he in fact he had holed out for a birdie ‘3’.
However the first of Goalby’s 11 PGA Tour wins came at the 1958 Greater Greensboro Open and the championship was then known.
Finsterwald followed Goalby ...
Padraig Harrington Struggles Around Wyndham C’Ship Greens.
Padraig Harrington’s mother, Breda confirmed what her son mentioned a few minutes later in that the triple Major winner struggled around and on the greens on the opening day of the Wyndham Championship.
In what is undoubtedly one of Harrington’s most important events of the season he walked from the course near 6.30pm having posted a two over par 72.
It left Harrington, who needs to finish first or second in this week’s $5.3m to avoid losing his 2014/15 Tour card, trailing 11 shots ...
Martin Laird Boosts Hopes Of Teeing-Up In FedEx Cup Play-Off Series.
Martin Laird boosted hopes of teeing-up in next week’s start to the PGA Tour Play-Off Series with his lowest score of the season on day one of the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina,
Laird took full advantage of the superb scoring conditions on the rain-softened Sedgefield Country Club course in posting a five under par 65.
It left the Scot just two shots behind first round leader Camilo Villegas of Columbia who posted a seven under par 63 to be one clear of the Americans Webb Simpson ...
Padraig Harrington Reluctant To Take One-Time PGA Tour Exemption.
Padraig Harrington is reluctant to draw on a PGA Tour money list exemption should he not finish first or second in this week’s Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina.
The 75th anniversary event being played on the Donald Ross designed Sedgefield Country Club course is a Harrington ‘Last Chance Saloon’ scenario for the triple Major Champion.
Harrington’s currently ranked 188th on the Tour money list and needs to be inside the top-25 at the close of this week’s $US 5.3m event ...
Stephen Gallacher’s Scotland ‘Feel Good’ Factors Ahead Of Wyndham C’ship Debut.
Stephen Gallacher has a Scotland ‘feel good’ reason to do well and secure his 2014/15 PGA Tour card at this week’s Wyndham Championship at Greensboro, North Carolina.
Gallacher is making his debut in the $5.3m event being played on the superb Donald Ross designed Sedgefield Country Club course.
Just prior to turning into the course Gallacher passes Scotland Street and then when inside there is a permanent reminder on a ‘Former Champions’ wall featuring fellow Scot Sandy Lyle who captured ...
