Adam Scott Secretly Marries Swede Marie Kojzar In His Bahamas Backyard.

Adam Scott has revealed he was secretly married in his Bahamas backyard and four days after his Masters defence. The Australian married long-time Swedish-born girlfriend Marie Kojzar in a small ceremony on April 17th. Scott is the third Major winner in recent time to tie the knot in the Bahamas with 2011 Open Champion Darren Clarke getting married in the Bahamas in the week after the 2012 Masters. And fellow Northern Irishman Graeme McDowell, who captured the 2010 US Open, was married in the Bahamas ...

Adam Scott Now Wishing He’d Stayed At Home Ending Double, Double At Sawgrass.

Australia’s Adam Scott was probably wishing he had stayed at home with his chances of becoming World No. 1 not being helped when he finished double bogey, double bogey on the opening day of the Players Championship. Scott celebrated the 10th anniversary of his 2004 TPC Sawgrass not the way he wanted in signing for a horror five over par 77. The effort sent the World No. 2 tumbling to near the back of the field in a share of 133rd in the 144-player field and the likelihood now of missing the ...

Stephen Gallacher ‘Right At Home’ In Heat Wave Sawgrass Sauna.

Despite the heat wave conditions Scotland’s ​Stephen Gallacher felt right at home joining many of his fellow European born competitors in taking advantage of the TPC Sawgrass course to birdie two of his closing three holes in a round of 70 on day one of the Players Championship. Twenty-one European-born players are competing in this week’s PGA Tour flagship $US 10m event and with Gallacher among eight of 11 out in the morning half of the draw to be under par on the Stadium course. Gallacher, ...

Rory McIlroy Continuing To Sound Despondent After Sawgrass Opening 70.

Rory McIlroy was again looking and sounding despondent in not being able squeeze more out of his golf on the opening day of the Players Championship. McIlroy birdied the opening two holes on each nine but let slip that good work when five under par after 11 holes to bogey three of his closing seven holes in a two under par 70. “I played pretty well for the first 11 holes, and played well pretty much the whole way around,” he said. “But then I bogeyed two of the short par fours, the second and ...

Lee Westwood Bangs His Knee Heavily After ‘Nature’s Call’ & Steps Out To Shoot Players 67.

Lee Westwood banged his knee heavily getting back into bed following a 4am ‘nature’s call’ but then got up to post a five under par 67 on the first day of the PGA Tour’s flagship Players Championship. In a first for some time in his career, Westwood was the very first player to tee-up in the $US 10m event starting at 7.15am local time. The recent Maybank Malaysian Open winner didn’t drop a shot on the Pete Dye designed Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass. “When I got here at 6am ...

Fog Forces No Play On Day One Madeira Islands Open.

The opening round of the Madeira Islands Open will now take place on Friday after heavy fog throughout the day negated any play on the Club de Golf do Santo da Serra course. European Tour officials made the announcement to abandon the day at 5pm local time and were hopeful of a restart tomorrow in what is the European Tour’s 1,500th tournament. While the capital Funchal was bathed in sunshine all day visibility on the golf course located some 600 meters high about the city was restricted to some ...

Peter Cowens Says 7 Years On Graeme McDowell Has To Realise He’s a ‘Player’ Not A Bomber.

US Open champioon Graeme McDowell will be looking to end a run of two missed cuts and in what will be his seventh appearance with his best finish being 26th in 2010. McDowell had spent a long time on the practice range working with long-time coach, Pete Cowen and actually having celebrated a seven-year anniversary working together. “We just sat down recently having looked over his seven-year stats and saying to him that they prove what a great player he is,” said Cowen. “Sometimes Graeme doesn’t ...