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Tarpon Springs is an 18-hole golf course located in Tarpon Springs along the Gulf of Mexico shoreline on the west portion of Florida. It was another of the courses we inspected during the Tampa Bay Championship. The original nine holes of the golf course was designed in 1906 and with the second nine finished in the late 1920’s. The course plays to a par 72 and measures 6,243 yards from the back tees with many doglegs that make it play longer than the actual length. Tarpon Springs boasts four par ...

Rory McIlroy was again haunted by ‘silly little mistakes’ in posting a level par 72 on the opening day of the Masters. McIlroy was two under par at the turn and only four shots from the then clubhouse lead before an roller-coaster inward half to end trailing six shots behind the leading duo of Spain’s Sergio Garcia and Australia’s Marc Leishman who shot six under par 66s. Garcia’s round is the first time since the third round in 2002 he’s not recorded a bogey while Leishman is competing ...

…. Augusta, Georgia. FIRST ROUND NOTES, FACTS & FIGURES – 77th MASTERS Weather Mostly cloudy with a high of 81 degrees. Winds S 7-14 mph. First-Round Leaderboard Sergio Garcia                            66 (-6) Marc Leishman                          66 (-6) Dustin Johnson                         67 (-5) The first-round leader/co-leader has gone on to win the Masters Tournament 15 times in the previous 76 events. ...

After the delight of sharing the first round lead, Marc Leishman now carries an added burden into the closing three rounds of this year’s Masters. Leishman, 29 posted easily his best score in three rounds of Augusta National in carding a six under par 66 before being joined by Spain’s Sergio Garcia whose round also of 66 is the first time since the third day of the event in 2002 the Ryder Cup star has gone without a bogey in the year’s first Major. However while Garcia seeks now ...

Graeme McDowell could have found a new caddy in fiancée, Kristin Stape declaring she’s looks better and smells better than his current bagman. Stape caddied for the former US Open in  Wednesday’s Par 3 Contest. And after posting a disappointing first round 73, that including four-putting the infamous par three, 12th hole, McDowell was asked if his future wife had a future as a Tour caddy. “Well, she has a lot of future as she looks better, she smells better and she’s more fun to be with ...

Sandy Lyle celebrated the first day of the 25th anniversary of his Masters triumph sporting the ugly duckling of putters to finish the leading Scot on the first day of the 77th Masters. The face of Lyle’s ‘Black Swan’ putter is about as long as a sleeve of golf balls and would look more at home on a croquet court than the hallowed fairways of Augusta National. However Lyle used the putter to post an opening round one over par 73 as the Scot looks to end a run of three missed cuts on the occasion ...

‘Team Jamie Donaldson’ will no doubt be cracking open a few bottles to celebrate Donaldson earning a gleaming Augusta National crystal bowl to put in his trophy cabinet after an ace on the opening day of the Masters. The Augusta National rookie collected only the 24th ace in Masters history when his 7-iron tee shot at the par three, sixth hole disappeared into the cup. “It’s funny as it’s a tough shot with the pin high up on the right side, so you don’t know whether to ...