Paul Casey Storms Into Lead With 63 On Rain-Softened BMW Int’ Open Course.
Paul Casey stormed into the clubhouse lead right on noon with a sizzling nine under par 63 on day three of the BMW International Open near Cologne.
The England golfer muscled his way from a share of 53rd place and right on the cut line at four under par and into a one shot lead at 13-under par on the rain-softened Gut Larcenhof course.
It is Casey’s second lowest European Tour round and with his lowest being a then course record 62 in the 2002 Linde German Masters on the same Jack Nicklaus ...
Back To Business As Usual For Hoey & Lowry In Cologne.
Michael Hoey and Shane Lowry admitted after dealing with the expectations, distractions and demands of last week’s Irish Open it was business as usual on day one of the BMW International Open in Cologne.
Spain’s Rafa Cabrera-Bello and playing partner and England’s Danny Willett enjoy a two shot lead after eight under par 64s and on the Gut Larcenhof course where Willett broke through two years ago to win a maiden Tour title.
Seven players, including Hoey and Spain’s Alvaro Quiros who has ...
Willett Overcomes Neck Injury To Share BMW Int’ Open Lead With Cabrera-Bello.
England’s Danny Willett overcame a neck injury to join playing partner Rafa Cabrera-Bello in shooting an eight under par 64s to share a two shot lead on the opening day of the BMW International Open in Cologne.
Willett had been forced out of Wednesday’s Pro-Am as he struggled with a neck injury picked-up while sleeping in Manchester Airport on Tuesday ahead of his flight to Cologne being cancelled.
The 26-year old then underwent extensive treatment to take his place on the same Gut Larcenhof ...
Kel Nagle (Oldest Living Major Winner) Shares Lunch With Fellow Australian PGA Life Members.
It was special occasion earlier this week in Sydney when four Australian PGA life members were guests of honor at a luncheon at the Terrey Hills Golf Club in northern Sydney.
Present was Kel Nagle, and golf’s oldest living Major Champion, along with his fellow life members in Colin Johnston, Frank Phillips and Dave Mercer.
Nagle, who turns 94 on 21st December, captured the 1960 Centenary Open Championship at St. Andrews along with six Australian PGA Championship titles in 1949, 1954, 1958, ...
Michael Hoey Hoping For BMW Int’ Open Pairing With Martin Kaymer.
Michael Hoey is keeping his fingers crossed he can be paired over the weekend rounds with Martin Kaymer during this week’s BMW International Open in Cologne.
The runaway U.S. Open champ has returned home to Germany to a hero’s welcome after his stunning eight-shot success in Pinehurst.
And the double Major winning Kaymer has brought back to the European Tour a real good factor.
We saw last week in Cork where newly-crowned Irish Open winner Mikko Ilonen singled out the inspiration he gleaned from ...
Martin Kaymer ….. “Don’t Compare My U.S. Open Triumph With Tiger Woods”.
Newly-crowned U.S. Open champion Martin Kaymer has returned home to a hero’s welcome but quickly poured cold water on any comparison with Tiger Woods.
Kaymer took last week off following his eight shot Pinehurst pulverization of his rivals spending three days in New York where he caught up with fellow German Markus Kuhn, who plays for New York Giants in the NFL.
He said: “It was good having three days in New York where I could reflect very quick, which was surprising for me. So it was very ...
Titanic Very Much Remembered In Cobh, Ireland.
A return in 12 years to Cobh again reminded me of the town’s connection with the ill-fated liner – Titantic.
It was April 11th, 1912 at 1.30pm, the Titanic leaves Queenstown (and now named Cobh) and heads across the Atlantic on its maiden voyage to New York.
However just over three days later at 2.30am on April 15th and the world’s most luxurious ocean liner is lying at the bottom of the Atantic Ocean.
There is reminders everywhere in Cobh of the Titanic’s last port of call ...
