Shane Lowry & Marcel Siem Land In Louisiana For Zurich Classic Of New Orleans.
Ireland’s Shane Lowry and Germany’s Marcel Siem have arrived in Louisiana to take their place in this week’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans.
Lowry has accepted an invitation into the $5.8m event while Siem earned his place in finishing top-10 in the recent Valero Texas Open.
The European duo, who won the respective Portugal Masters and French Open titles last year, are among 14 Europeans competing in New Orleans.
Also teeing up later this week on the TPC Louisiana course in suburban ...
Angel Cabrera Makes Ammends For Augusta Anguish Winning In His Beloved Cordoba.
Argentina’s Angel Cabrera has made quick ammends for the disappointment of losing last week’s Masters in capturing one of the most prestigious tournaments in his beloved country – the 82nd Abierto del Centro, at his beloved Cordoba Golf Club.
Cabrera and compatriot Rafael Gomez ended regulation play at level par and then with Cabrera capturing the $US 27,000 first prize cheque with a birdie at the first extra play-off hole.
The tournament is one of the most prestigious golf tournaments ...
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 ...
