Stuart Manley Kisses His Wife & Dog On Route To A Royal Melbourne 67.
Welshman Stuart Manley had less than a few hours home in Cardiff after securing his Tour card for 2014 that all he had time for was change his suitcase, kiss his wife Nicole and also plant a kiss ‘more importantly as he said’ on the family dog, Griff.
Manley returns to the European Tour after a three year absence having finished 10th among the leading graduates at last Friday’s six-round conclusion to the 2014 Race to Dubai Q-School in Spain.
It was the 34-year old’s 10th ...
McDowell Tees Up In Former Olympic Games Host City Facing Questions Over 2016 Olympic Status.
Graeme McDowell tees up in a former Olympic Games host city facing questions as to what flag he would compete under should he qualify for the 2016 Olympics in Brazil.
McDowell is competing in a third straight World Cup of Golf under the Ireland flag and this year teaming with Shane Lowry for the World Cup of Golf in Melbourne.
And with the question still uncertain as to what flag McDowell or Rory McIlroy would march behind at the Opening Ceremony should they qualify for the Rio de Janeiro, that was ...
Wood & Willett Team Mates But Not When It Comes To Individual Glory At Royal Melbourne.
Chris Wood and Danny Willett are World Cup team mates but the England duo could be fighting each other for victory in this week’s World Cup of Golf in Melbourne.
Sixty-years after the inaugural event in Canada and organisers have abolished the traditional fourball and foursomes format in favour of a 72-hole stroke play event that will mirror the nature of competition when golf returns to the Olympics in 2016.
And in another twist in the $8m event there is 60 players teeing up on the famed Royal ...
Expectant Father Martin Laird Rejoins European Tour With Ryder Cup Again His Goal.
Soon-to-be new father Martin Laird has again joined the European Tour with a view of qualifying automatically for next year’s European Ryder Cup team at Gleneagles.
Laird’s American-born wife, Megan is expecting to give birth two weeks before Laird defends his Valero Texas Open title in San Antonio.
However Laird’s immediate focus is his last event this year and joining fellow Scot Stephen Gallacher in this week’s World Cup of Golf in Melbourne, Australia.
It’s Laird’s first visit to ...
Matt Kuchar Looking To Make Royal Melbourne Ammends In World Cup Defence
American Matt Kuchar has an extra special reason to successfully defend this week’s ISPA Handa World Cup of Golf.
Last Sunday, Kuchar let slip Australian Masters victory to Australia’s in-form Adam Scott when the US Ryder Cup star’s 7-iron second shot into the 18th green caught a green side bunker from where Kuchar took a double bogey on route to a 68 to hand Scott a two shot victory in the defence of his title.
And Kuchar, who is no stranger to Australia including spending his ...
Adam Scott Praises Jason Day Despite Losing Family Members In Philippines Typhoon.
Australia’s Adam Scott has praised countryman Jason Day for a decision to contest this week’s World Cup of Golf after Day lost family members killed in Typhoon Haiyan.
Day has returned from his US residence to team with Scott despite losing his grandmother, an uncle and six young cousins in the typhoon that recently struck the Philippines.
Government sources believe more than 3,000 people were killed in the storms that ravaged the country’s eastern shoreline while the United Nations Disaster ...
Tour Boss Insists Simon Dyson Innocent Ahead Of ‘Cheating’ Charge Hearing.
Simon Dyson returns to competition this week in South Africa despite facing a hearing early month to answer charges of allegedly cheating.
The England golfer will tee-up in this week’s co-sanctioned South African Open and the following week’s Alfred Dunhill Championship and in what are the opening two events of the 2014 European Race to Dubai schedule.
Dyson has been informed he has to appear before a European Tour Disciplinary panel hearing on December 5th in London following his disqualification ...
