Graeme McDowell Banks RBC Heritage Victory – His First Regular PGA Success.
Graeme McDowell has banked his first regular PGA Tour victory with a play-off success in the RBC Heritage Classic at Hilton Head in South Carolina.
McDowell and fellow US Open champion, Webb Simpson ended regulation play tied at nine under par and with the Northern Irishman winning with a par at the first extra hole – the par four, 18th.
McDowell had two-putted from the front of the green for par and was virtually headed back to the tee when there was a collective gasp of disbelief from ...
Raphael Jacquelin Secures Spanish Open After Record-Equalling 9-Hole Play-Off.
French ace Raphaël Jacquelin captured his fourth Race to Dubai Tour in historic manner winning the prestigious Spanish Open at the ninth extra play-off hole.
Jacquelin, who last captured the 2011 Sicilian Open, defeated Germany’s Maxmilian Kieffer on the Parador de El Saler course in Valencia.
The Spanish Open play-off equalled a European Tour record for the longest play-off since the 1989 KLM Open, when José María Olazábal beat Roger Chapman and Ronan Rafferty.
Three players – Jacquelin, ...
Adam Scott – Australia’s First-Ever Masters Champion – Reaction To His Victory.
Seventeen years to the very day Adam Scott rose from the ashes of Greg Norman’s Augusta National anguish to capture one of the last sporting successes to deny a proud sporting nation – the Masters.
However many wondered if the heartbreak of Royal Lytham, where Scott bogeyed the last four holes to let slip a four-shot lead to hand the Claret Jug to Ernie Els, would ruin his psyche for future major runs.
But on that day in July last year, Scott boldly declared, “Next time, and I’m sure ...
2013 Masters – Aces, Eagles, Birdies, Bogeys & One Glaring Double Bogey.
The 2013 Masters will be remembered as Adam Scott becoming the first-ever Australian on April 14th to be fitted with an August National members green jacket.
Seventeen years ago also on April 14th, Scott had been allowed a day off school to watch his idol being Australia’s Augusta jinx to a close. Instead it turned in misery with Greg Norman enduring a Masters meltdown to hand victory to arch rival Nick Faldo.
However the tournament that was embraced by controversy on Thursday and Saturday ...
Adam Scott – 2013 Masters Champion – How The World’s Newspapers Reported It.
While Australia continues to bask in the glory of Adam Scott becoming the first Australian to ever win the Masters, we’ve also had time now to evaluate worldwide coverage of his stunning play-off success at Augusta National.
Hereunder is how the world’s newspapers reported Scott’s stunning triumph among the ‘Cathedral in the Pines’.
DAILY EXPRESS (UK)
Masterful show by Scott – Australian triumphs in play-off
DAILY RECORD (Scotland)
Adam Scott banishes Aussie Augusta ...
Bernie McGuire – First Aussie Journalist To Cover ‘Down Under’ Golfing Grand Slam.
While Adam Scott became the first Australian in 73-years to be fitted with an Augusta National green jacket, your author can now proudly boast to be the first Australian-born print journalist to be present to report on a ‘Down Under’ golfing Grand Slam.
I was in attendance in 1993 at Royal St. George’s to walk all 18 holes of the final round as Greg Norman captured a second Open Championship. Norman came from one shot behind arch rival Nick Faldo and defeat the Brit by two with ...
Adam Scott Singles Out Boyhood Hero & Augusta Near Hero Greg Norman For Special Praise.
Australia’s Adam Scott has singled out boyhood hero and also Augusta near-hero, Greg Norman for special praise quickly after ending a 73-year winless drought to become the first Australian to win the Masters.
Norman finished runner-up three times, the first occasion in 1981 and then to a unbelieveale Larry Mize chip-in in 1987 and then in horrific manner in 1996 after leading by six shots heading into the final round but self-destructing shooting a final day 78 to lose by five to arch rival ...
