McIlroy Cements His Place In Defence of DP World Tour Championship.
Rory McIlroy secured his best European Tour finish this year to guarantee his defence of his season-ending DP World Tour Championship with his share of sixth place at 15-under par jumping 24 spots from outside the top-60 at 62nd to 38th position and easily cement his place in the Race to Dubai finale.
Despite competing in last year’s Turkish Airlines Invitational McIlroy also will join fellow Ulsterman and US Open winner Graeme McDowell in not travelling to Balek.
However as it began raining near ...
Phil Mickelson Delights In Seeing People Shake When Handed The Claret Jug.
Phil Mickelson admits his biggest on-going joy is finally taking possession of the famed Claret Jug is watching people shake when the get to hold golf’s oldest trophy.
It’s now been nearly four months since Mickelson finally broke through at his 23rd attempt to capture golf’s oldest major on that sun-splashed afternoon at Muirfield.
Since then the Claret Jug has hardly been out of the Californian’s sight with the only exception being for his journey to China and today’s (SUN) concluding ...
Daniel Popovic To Skip Australian PGA Defence For European Tour Card.
Daniel Popovic will skip this week’s defence of the Australian PGA Championship title for the goal of trying to earn a 2014 European Tour card.
Twelve months ago the then Australasian Tour rookie ignored the distractions of life-size replica dinosaurs to lead from start-to-finish and win the championship by three strokes at the Palmer Coolum course in Queensland.
Earlier in 2012 Popovic was nearly set to quit the game to take care of his seriously ill father.
And while Masters champion, Adam ...
PGA Tour To Announce Setting Up Of PGA Tour Of China.
Tim Finchem as Commissioner of the PGA Tour is set to announce tomorrow the seting up of a PGA Tour of China.
The news, to be confirmed at noon Sunday Shanghai time, comes after the PGA Tour extended its tentacles in setting up a Latin PGA Tour and also the PGA Tour of Canada.
www.golfbytourmiss.com understand there will be 12 tournaments starting in March next year and each carrying a prize purse of RMB 1.2m or close to $US 200,000.
And given revelations some months ago the PGA Tour was considering ...
Simon Dyson Saves Embarrassment By Withdrawing From Turkish Airlines Open.
Embattled Simon Dyson has withdrawn from next week’s inaugural Turkish Airlines Open.
The England golfer is facing a disciplinary hearing after being disqualified from last week’s BMW Masters for incorrectly tapping down a spike mark during the second round of the event at Lake Malaren.
The European Tour issued a statement on Thursday stating Dyson has a case to answer and called the six-time Tour winner before a disciplinary panel at a date to be decided and with Dyson soon after breaking ...
Woods Defends Decision Not To Compete In WGC – HSBC Champions.
Tiger Woods has defended a decision not to contest this week’s lucrative WGC – HSBC Champions event in Shanghai.
HSBC organisers are reportedly disappointed that Woods, who also made two lucrative appearances in China and Macau this week, is missing the tournament for the second year in a row.
Steinberg admitted that Woods had known for “more than a year” — before he skipped last season’s edition — that he wouldn’t be present in Shanghai.
And he added ...
Boo Weekley Reminds Everybody He’s Just Boo After Moving To A Share Of Second In Sheshan.
For those that know Boo Weekley you know that the American is a very down to earth guy.
He was member of the 2008 USA winning Ryder Cup team at Valhalla when he endeared himself to everyone with his ‘horse riding’ antics in the series of matches won by the Paul Azinger captained team.
So it should come as no surprise when Weekley was put before the TV camera’s the World No. 52 dealt he kept that same composure despite some average questions in shooting a round of 67 to be tied in ...
