McDowell Says Organisers Need ‘To Work Out’ EurAsia Cup/Royal Trophy Differences.
Leading EurAsia Cup star Graeme McDowell says the European and Asian Tour needs to ‘work out’ concerns this week’s event is causing among the Ballesteros family who oversee staging of the Royal Trophy.
There’s doubt now over the future of the Royal Trophy run by the Ballesteros Foundation every year in Asia and in a non-Ryder Cup year given the European and Asian Tour is involved in running the EurAsia Cup.
The Royal Trophy is backed by the European and OneAsia Tour.
Four ...
US Open Winning Pair Of Glover & McDowell Share Harrington Masters Disbelief
The back-to-back US Open winning duo of Graeme McDowell and Lucas Glover share their disbelief Padraig Harrington is not exempt into next month’s Masters.
Unless Harrington can clinch either this week’s Valero Texas Open or next week’s Shell Houston Open than it will see the triple Major winner end a 14-year unbroken appearance at Augusta National.
And since making his Masters debut in 2000, Harrington also has missed just one of the intervening 56 Majors and that was the 2005 British Open ...
No Name Australians Again All Too Quick To Label Adam Scott With The ‘C’ Word.
It happened when Greg Norman ‘lost’ the 1996 Masters to arch rival Nick Faldo and now the knives are out for Adam Scott following his final round demise in the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
Australia is the home of the ‘Tall Poppy Syndrome’ and the process of putting its sports stars up on the highest of high pedestals and then enjoying the delight in cutting them down to size.
It’s been less than four hours since Scott let slip victory in the Arnold Palmer Invitational ...
Karrie Webb Shoots 63 To Win Founders – Historic First-Ever Back-To-Back PGA & LPGA Victories For Coach.
Karrie Webb claimed her 41st LPGA success and her second victory a month in posting a blistering final round and course record equaling nine-under par 63 for a 19-under par tally to capture the JTBC Founders Cup in Phoenix, Arizona.
The Queenslander stormed through the field but then had to wait some 90 minutes before confirmation of her success and a second triumph in a month after capturing a fifth Australian Open victory.
And just a few hours after Adam Scott let slip victory in the Arnold Palmer ...
Laird’s First Valero Texas Open Defence Task – Long Practice Session With Coach
Martin Laird arrived in San Antonio last night (SUN) for his defence of the Valero Texas Open but with his first appointment being a long session on the range with his coach.
Laird had jetted in from Orlando where he had plunged to last place with weekend rounds of 76 and 78 for a horror nine over par Arnold Palmer Invitational total, and in an event he won three years ago.
The Scot started Sunday dropping five shots in his first three holes, including doubles at one and three, before a run of three ...
Harrington Slumps To Equal Worst PGA Score In 724 Rounds With A Bay Hill 80.
Padraig Harrington’s Masters aspirations look more distant after he slumped to an equal worst PGA Tour round in shooting 80 on the final day of the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando.
It was his equal poorest round in 724 round on the Tour.
Harrington had just one birdie in a round that included a fist hole double bogey and also seven bogeys to end the event near the tail of the field with a five over par total.
It is the triple Major winner’s poorest round by four shots in 14 rounds of ...
Adam Scott’s Royal Sydney Hoodoo Bites Back At Bay Hill – Second Loss In Six Events.
Aussie Adam Scott now heads to his Masters defence having let slip a wire to wire victory for a second occasion in his past six events.
In both December’s Australian Open in Sydney and now in the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando Scott began with a blistering first day 62 to lead for three days only to lose out on the final day.
Scott went into the Bay Hill last day’s play leading by three strokes , and despite still struggling with flu-like symptoms, he lost out by two shots to ...
