Leading Snapper Gets A Warning, Police Officer Gets A Sleeve Of Golf Balls.
Leading golf snapper Eoin Clarke was so careful in driving Tuesday from Philidelphia to Akron, Ohio and venue for this week’s WGC – Bridgestone Invitational and not wishing to be stopped for speeding.
We had negotiated some half-a-dozen radar traps on the Pennsylvania Turnpike when we drove past two police cars stopped just outside of Somerset and the town where United Airline Flight 93 crashed in the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001.
No sooner had we passed the two police cars ...
Player Says McIlroy Needs ‘The Right Wife’.
Rory McIlroy has won two Majors in his short pro career but Gary Player says his downturn in form could be all do with his taste in women.
The champion South African born Player, and winner of nine Majors, recently appeared on talk Sport UK’s “My Sporting Life” where he discussed what the young golfer should do to get himself back on the right track.
“He’s got to be intelligent and find the right wife. If he finds the right wife, if he practices and if he’s dedicated, he could ...
McIlroy Returns To Holywood To Rekindle His Blockbuster Winning Ways.
Rory McIlroy returned to his roots and his beloved Holywood club hoping to rekindle his winning ways.
After hopelessly missing the cut in last fortnight’s British Open at Muirfield, McIlroy got in contact with three of his closest mates – Harry Diamond, Ricky McCormick and Mitchell Tweedie.
The four headed out late last week playing a number of courses including his beloved Holywood where McCormick in now the resident pro.
McIlroy birdied the closing seven holes on the course where the clubhouse ...
Jack Nicklaus Golf Club, Seoul, Korea To Host 2015 Presidents Cup.
At Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio, where Jack Nicklaus is tonight receiving the Ambassador of Golf Award, Nicklaus joined PGA TOUR Commissioner Tim Finchem to announce that Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea, located in the Songdo International Business District (IBD), Incheon, Korea, has been selected as the host course and Incheon City as the host city for The Presidents Cup 2015 when the event makes its first trip to Asia.
Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea, which is located 40 miles west of Seoul ...
Masters Flag Signing Madness For Adam Scott.
One of the pleasures in winning any golf tournament is the request to sign autographs.
Players will be asked to sign anything from commemorative flags, posters, shirts, caps and in one scenario witnessed first hand, on the bare chest of a young woman.
But while ‘that’ player won’t be named, Adam Scott is now finding out what goes with winning the Masters.
He had just wound-up his pre WGC – Bridgestone Invitational preparations, and in an event he won two years ago, when he ...
Justin Rose In ‘Reset’ Mode After Muirfield Meltdown.
Justin Rose is in ‘reset’ mode in Ohio this week and his first event since missing the halfway cut in last fortnight’s Open Championship meltdown at Muirfield.
Rose’s triumphant return home as the reigning US Open champion ended miserable on a sunny Scotland day with the Englishman missed the Muirfield cut with scores of 75 and 77.
But now back in the States for today’s (THURS) starting WGC – Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Rose recalled the Rudyard Kipling poem ‘If’ first pointed ...
McGinley Afforded Life Membership Of Quinta Do Lago Golf Club.
European Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley has had a new honour bestowed on him after receiving honorary membership of the prestigious Quinta do Lago Golf Club in Portugal’s Algarve.
McGinley received the award at a special presentation dinner to acknowledge not only his appointment as the 2014 Ryder Cup captain but also, given the strong Irish membership at the club, the fact that he will be the first Irish Ryder Cup captain.
The Dubliner has been a regular visitor with his family to Quinta do Lago ...
