2014 Players Championship – A Look At The Stats & The Island Green 17th.
In a preview to this week’s $US 10m Players Championship www.golfbytourmiss.com looks ahead to this week’s event at TPC Sawgrass.
First, a look at this e field –
27 of the world’s top 30 (Defending champ Tiger Woods absent)
20 of 21 winners from this year’s 2013/14 PGA Tour wraparound schedule
15 first-timers including Jordan Spieth, Russell Knox and Stephen Gallacher
144 players from 20 different countries with Scotland sixth overall with three players.
And we look at the facts ...
Stephen Gallacher .. ‘TPC Sawgrass Is Better Close Up Than On TV’.
For the second time in three starts Stephen Gallacher will tee up on a golf course he is more familiar having watched the event on TV than playing it first hand.
Gallacher wound up his Players Championship preparations playing nine holes yesterday (WED) after playing two full 18 hole practice rounds the prior two days.
And his first visit a month go to Augusta National, Gallacher’s only knowledge of this week’s host venue was what he’s seen on TV.
“It’s a great track but then the onus ...
Rory McIlroy Tees Up At TPC Sawgrass With Cuts & Scratches On His Face.
Rory McIlroy will tee-up in this week’s PGA Tour flagship Players Championship brimming with confidence but also sporting a series of cuts and scratches on his boyish 25-year old face.
McIlroy had a close encounter on Tuesday with bushes while playing a social round with his close friends Mitchell Tweedy and Ricky McCormick at the exclusive Bears Club.
The double Major winner, who has cuts on his lip and the right side of his face, had raised eyebrows in deciding not to play a practice round at ...
Russell Knox Saddened By Passing Of His Coach ….”Mike Fleming Helped Me More Than Anybody”.
On top of the recent high of getting married Russell Knox is still dealing with the sadness of the passing of his coach.
Knox attended the funeral last Monday of Mike Fleming, his 71-year old coach for some eight years.
“Mike had some health issues ever since I have known him and while he died a few weeks ago it was only last week that his funeral was held,” he said.
“So it was very tough dealing with that, and that’s another reason why I decided not to play in the Wells Fargo last week.
“It ...
Graeme McDowell …’Players C’ship Right Up There But No Major’.
Graeme McDowell agrees debate will always rage over whether the Players Championship should join the Open, Masters, US Open and US PGA and be regarded as one of golf’s majors.
However in an interview with BBC Five Live’s Iain Carter McDowell explains:-
“For me, the majors are what they are and the rest are second best, but the Players is right up there. It has history and tradition and is played on a great golf course with a very strong field.
“It is the flagship event of ...
The So-Called Fifth Major Still Has Three Greens Out-0f-Bounds.
It would never happen in a ‘genuine’ Major Championship.
The so-called fifth Major still has three greens at TPC Sawgrass out-of-bounds to this week’s Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass.
Players are not allowed to hit shots into the fourth, 11th and 12th greens, and they will remain closed for a third official day practice in the PGA Tour’s showcase $US 10m event.
The problem arises firstly in moving the event from it’s March date and two weeks before the Masters ...
Bubba Watson Returns To His School Days & All Kids Liked Was 450 Free Pizzas.
Double Masters champion Bubba Watson has spent the past month donating money to his former primary schools but admitting all the pupils were worried about was 450 free pizzas.
Watson purposely side-stepped the post Masters series of late night TV show host appearances in New York and instead headed south to Florida to first visit his mother and then return to primary schools in Bagdad, Florida and Pensacola also in Florida along with Georgia State College in Athens.
Watson grew up in the north-west ...
