Players Championship Revisited 26 Years On – My Breakthrough In Golf Reporting.
Every journalist wants to see their name up high as author of either a front page news item or the lead sports story on the back of the newspaper.
However one of my first ‘scoops’ was not necessarily a story I wrote but in fact I found myself the subject of the story.
Allow me to rewind to March 1988.
I am working as the Chief Private Secretary to Ken Booth, M.P and the Treasurer of New South Wales in Australia.
I had spent four years working on the private staff of the Premier of New ...
Adam Scott Confesses Masters Winning Putt Harder Than ‘Popping The Question’.
Former Masters champion Adam Scott confessed it was harder staring over his play-off putt to win last year at Augusta National than in ‘popping the question’ to his wife Marie Kojzar.
The duo were married in a very hush, hush ceremony on 17th April and four days after Scott’s defense of the Masters.
Scott’s parents had been present at Augusta and then joined their son in travelling on to Scott’s Bahamas residence where the ceremony was conducted in the backyard of Scott’s ...
Rory McIlroy’s Sawgrass ‘Chalk & Cheese’ Halves Continue.
Double Major winner Rory McIlroy again took the sting out of the TPC Sawgrass back nine in a third round 69 to move to a then share of 32nd place on three under par.
However for a third day running the 25-year old battled over the Players Championship outward nine.
In fact, McIlroy is nine over par for the outward half over the three days of the $US 10m championship but in comparison he’s 12 under par for the homeward half.
McIlroy went into the third day’s play having just made the cut ...
Martin Kaymer Singles Out Scottish-Born Caddy After Staying In Sawgrass Lead.
Martin Kaymer again singled out Scottish-born caddy Craig Connelly for special praise after remaining in the lead after two rounds of the Players Championship.
Kaymer raised the German flag even higher in the PGA Tour’s flagship event adding a 69 to his opening course record equaling 63 to move to 12-under par in the $US 10m event.
The Dusseldorf-born golfer is looking for a first win since he and Connelly tasted success in the 2012 Nedbank Challenge at Sun City and some two months after Connelly ...
If McDowell Had His Way He’d Move Players Championship Back Into ‘Florida Swing’.
If Graeme McDowell had his way he would see this week’s PGA Tour’s flagship Players Championship return to being a part of the ‘Florida Swing’.
It is now five years since PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem was instrumental in moving the $US 10m event from a March date, and a virtual curtain-raiser two weeks prior to the Masters, to a month after the season’s first Major Championship.
That decision has somewhat back-fired on Finchem and moreso this week with the course not as in near as good ...
McIlroy Birdies 18th Two Days Running To Ensure Slice Of Sawgrass Weekend Purse.
Rory McIroy remains determined to break a habit of struggling to make the cut after he birdied the 18th hole to ensure he plays all four rounds of the Players Championship.
McIlroy had birdied the hole in a nine-hole practice round on Wednesday and then again on Thursday however when he needed a birdie at 18 to make the cut he found the bottom of the cut with a superb 13-foot gem.
Once again, it was deja vu for the double Major winner and not the first time this year managed to just scrape into the ...
Scott Henry Surges To Two Shot Lead Madeira Islands Open Lead Eating Madeira Cake.
Scotland’s Scott Henry says drinking a lot of coffee and eating plenty of slices of Madeira cake helped him shoot a five under par 67 and be a two stroke clubhouse lead in the first round of the fog-affected Madeira Islands Open.
Fog had forced Thursday’s first day to be abandoned and there was also a near four-hour delay mid-morning today (FRD) as fog again enveloped the 600 metre high Club de Golf Santo da Serra course.
The delays has forced Tour officials to reduce the joint European ...
