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Pacific Palisades, California … Tournament host Tiger Woods boosted hopes of playing all four rounds with a brilliant last hole birdie from just off the green at the rain-affected Geness Open. Woods, who was right on the cut line standing over his 24-foot, drew a huge roar of approval in holing the putt in a level par round of  71 to complete his two rounds at one-under par. However, the current World N0. 13 was headed back to his hotel to catch-up on some sleep following a 7am restart to ...

Pacific Palisades, California … Rory McIlroy returned to brilliantly birdie four of his closing six holes in officially posting an eight-under par second round 63 in the rain-affected Genesis Open. When bad light halted Friday’s round at 5.20pm local time, McIlroy was lying at four-under for his round through 12 holes and three-under for the Riviera Country Club event. All those affected, including playing partners Tiger Woods and Justin Thomas, were then back to the course to be in place ...

Pacific Palisades, California … Tiger Woods displayed plenty of brilliance when the tournament host holed-out for an eagle in his second round of the badly rain-affected Genesis Open near Santa Monica. Woods, and his other competitors, had less than 12-hours between ending Friday’s rain-drenched play and returning to the course and be in place at 5am Saturday local time to complete his second round. Woods had managed to play 12 second round holes when play was halted at 5.20pm local ...

Embattled Matt Kuchar has finally shown some common decency and agreeing to pay his Mayakoba Golf Classic winning caddy the reported $50,000 fee he has been seeking following the American’s success late last year. In a statement released by Kuchar mid-afternoon Friday at the Genesis Open, Kuchar apologised for being out of touch and insensitive, and making a bad situation worse. All credit to leading US golf journalist, Michael Bamberger who reached out to caddy David Ortiz that will now see ...

Bryson DeChambeau admitted he is still ‘adapting’ to having the flagstick in while he putts and this after his seemingly being totally comfortable with this important rule change. Indeed, DeChambeau travelled to the Middle East for a first time in his career winning the 60th anniversary Omega Dubai Desert Classic and then competing in Saudi Arabia. And in both European Tour events there was plenty of talk of the American putting with the flagstick unattended. “I haven’t had ...

Not for a first time in their careers Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy will tee-up alongside each other and this time for the opening two rounds of the Genesis Open at the Riviera County Club. In fact, it will be a third occasion in a year with the duo out for the opening two rounds of last year’s event and with McIlroy and Woods grouped together for the final round of last August’s season-ending Tour Championship. While McIlroy got the better of Woods over two days in the 2018 Genesis, ...

Tiger Woods said he was honoured that changes from next year to the TGR hosted Genesis Open will see it now ranked up there with the Arnold Palmer Invitational and the Jack Nicklaus hosted Memorial. PGA Tour Commissioner, Jay Monahan was on hand to officially announced the new stature of this week’s event. As predicted by www.golfbytourmiss.com the changes to come into effect from next year include:- The Genesis Open will move to invitational qualifying status and reduce its field from 144 ...