Seven Players Now Withdraw From Travelers Due To Covid-19 Issues.
Two more players have withdrawn from the Travelers Championship due to COVID-19 issues and now taking the tally to seven players.
American Denny McCarthy was experiencing discomfort overnight and ahead of his second round in the Travelers Championship and with a Friday morning (local time) test confirming his worst fears.
“I was feeling pretty tired and sore after the round yesterday but didn’t think much of it because I had practiced a lot Monday to Wednesday,” said McCarthy.
“Last night, ...
McIlroy Answers Critics With Lowest Opening Round In 16 Months At Travelers.
Rory McIlroy answered his critics in the best manner possible posting his lowest opening round in some 16 months with a blistering 63 on day one of the Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Connecticut.
McIlroy was very much in his element grabbing an eagle and six birdies for a seven-under par tally and the early clubhouse lead on the par-70 TPC River Highlands course.
Around an hour later Canadian Macekenzie Hughes posted 10 birdies in a score of 60 to storm past McIlroy into the lead in the Euro ...
Monahan Insists PGA Tour Will Continue Despite Four Coronavirus Cases In Six Days
The PGA Tour is adamant it will push ahead despite four-time Major winning Brooks Koepka joining Irishman Graeme McDowell in withdrawing from competition due to their respective caddies testing positive to COVID-19.
First it was Nick Watney testing positive ahead of last week’s second round of the RBC Heritage and then earlier this week Cameron Champ was also confirmed as having Coronavirus symptoms.
McDowell then withdrew from Thursday’s starting Travelers Championship in Connecticut when ...
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And now Koepka’s withdrawn from ...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 ...
