PGA Tour In Crisis As Coronavirus Sees Players Withdrawing.
The PGA Tour is in crisis as four-time Major winning Brooks Koepka joined others in withdrawing from competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
First it was Nick Watney ahead of last week’s second round of the RBC Heritage and then earlier this week Cameron Champ also tested positive to Coronavirus symptoms.
Irishman Graeme McDowell withdrew from today’s (THU) starting Travelers Championship in Connecticut when long-time caddy, Ken Comboy also tested positive.
And now Koepka’s withdrawn from ...
Watney Confides In McIlroy After American Confirmed Positive With Coronavirus
In a bizarre twist fellow PGA Tour star Nick Watney confided with World No. 1 Rory McIlroy before being officially confirmed as testing positive with the Coronavirus.
The Tour released a statement late on day two of the RBC Heritage Classic that the 39-year old and five-time Tour winning Watney had symptoms consistent with the illness early Friday and consulted a physician. He was tested and found to be positive.
Watney had posted a first round 74 and then appeared at the tail of the field with ‘WD’ ...
Seventy-Two Reasons Why It’s Been 11-Years McIroy Last Played RBC Heritage
There were again 72 reasons why it had been 11-years since Rory McIlroy first and last played the RBC Heritage Harbor Town course at Hilton Head.
For a second week running, McIlroy struggled on a tight tree-lined course and admitting he was out of his ‘comfort zone’ in signing for a one over 72 on day one of the Euro 6.3m event.
It was the exactly the same score he shotback in 2009 when he made his only other appearance on the South Carolina course.
McIlroy struggled with three outward bogeys ...
Love 111 Likens McIlroy To Greg Norman … A Victim Of His Own Success
Davis Love 111 is returning to competition at this week’s RBC Heritage and for a first occasion since fire ripped through his family home destroying almost everything Love and his wife, Robin owned.
Love revealed sadly the emotions in returning to tournament competition and having to search for head covers while his son gave him a pitch mark repairer.
It is Love’s 31st appearance on the Hilton Head course, and a venue where the now 56-year old captured between 1987 and 2003 five of his ...
McIlroy In Awe Of DeChambeau’s New-Found Distance.
World No. 1 Rory McIlroy says it’s ‘unbelievable’ Byson DeChambeau’s distance off the tee.
McIlroy and DeChambeau were grouped together for the final round of last week’s Charles Schwab Challenge at Ft. Worth and where the American went within a shot of forcing his way into a play-off.
McIlroy struggled right from the outset when he shanked his second shot way right down the first fairway for an eventual score of 73 and a very distant share of 32nd place.
He was asked ...
Furyk Puts 2020 Ryder Cup ‘Should It Be Played, Should It Be Postponed’ In Proper Perspective
Former USA Ryder Cup captain and now a 2020 vice-captain, Jim Furyk has put another perspective on the on-going debate as to whether or not the 2020 Ryder Cup should go ahead later this year or whether it should be postponed 12 months.
There’s the other question and that is if the Ryder Cup is given the green light should spectators be allowed to attend Whistling Straits and line the shores of the Lake Michigan course.
Furyk, and whose USA Team was convincingly beaten in late 2018 at Versailles ...
Kaymer Convening, Monty Chasing A Fly, Stenson In His Underwear, Sergio Taking Notes – Why Europe Again Does It Best.
Once again, we have yet another glaring example why European golfers bond so well every second year compared to their American cousins on the opposite side of ‘The Pond’.
The European Tour’s latest video blockbuster is a 6 minutes and 29 seconds clip called: “The Conference Call”.
Double Major winning German, Martin Kaymer has the job of conference convenour for seven of his fellow European players plus a special guest, and with the topic of group discussion being ...
