Day One – 100th PGA Championship – All The Notes
Thursday Notes
100th PGA Championship
August 9, 2018
GARY WOODLAND IS THE FIRST-ROUND LEADER AT THE 100TH PGA CHAMPIONSHIP
Gary Woodland posted an opening-round 64 and leads the 100th PGA Championship by one shot over Rickie Fowler (65) and two over Zach Johnson and Brandon Stone (66). Eleven players, including 2015 PGA Champion Jason Day, Dustin Johnson, and Justin Rose, are three off Woodland’s pace at 3-under 67. Forty-six players in all tallied sub-par opening rounds at Bellerive Country ...
Woods Strips Off Shirt To Muscle His Way Back To Level At Bellerive.
St. Louis, Missouri ….
It was a nightmare start for Tiger Woods in bogeying the first and then doubling his second hole to be three-over par after just two holes.
What happened next could most off guard.
Woods’ caddy Joe LaCava dug into Woods’ ‘Monster Energy’ golf bag and pulled out a fresh Nike logo shirt.
The 14-time Major winner ducked into a closeby ‘portaloo’ on the 12th tee and the third hole of Woods round.
Woods stood tall on the 12th tee and sent ...
Rose’s Lucky Number 99 As He Tees-Up In 100th PGA
St. Louis, Missouri ….
Justin Rose’s lucky number is 99.
He has the number 99 stamped on his golf balls while his twitter account features the number 99.
The current World No. 3 tees-up this week at Bellerive hoping his No. 99 TaylorMade golf ball will lead to glory in the 100th staging of the PGA Championship.
And ahead of teeing-up in what will be his 14th PGA Championship, Rose explained the significance of the number 99.
“My wife’s lucky number was always 9,” said ...
Fleetwood Determined To Shake A “I Hate Saturday’s” Game Tune
St. Louis, Missouri ….
As one of the favourites for this week’s PGA Championship, Southport’s Tommy Fleetwood doesn’t have a great record in the Majors.
In fact, Fleetwood’s played a dozen majors since making his debut in the 2014 Open Championship and missed the cut in half including two of his three PGA Championship appearances.
But you look at Fleetwood’s peformances on the European and PGA Tour’s and that speaks another sory.
The current European No. ...
Woods Admits He’s Blessed, Very Blessed To Be Playing Golf
St. Louis, Missouri …
“Blessed. Very blessed”.
This was Tiger Woods response ahead of this week’s 100th PGA Championship on the Bellerive course in St. Louis, Missouri.
Woods is contesting the PGA Championship for a first occasion since 2015 when he missed the cut for a second straight year.
The now 42-year old is a four-time PGA Championship winner having won the event in 1999, 2000, 2006 and 2007.
This week is Woods’ 19th appearance in the event since making his debut in 1997. ...
McIlroy Remains The ‘Eternal Optimist’ As He Seeks To End Four-Year Majors Drought
St. Louis, Missouri …
Rory McIlroy insists he remains an ‘eternal optimist’ as he strives this week to end a four-year Majors victory drought and become a three per-cent victory component in the 100th PGA Championship celebrations.
McIlroy’s pre-PGA Championship plans, and that of his fellow Bellerive competitors, have been thrown into somewhat disarray when the heatwave conditions of Monday gave way to fierce electrical storms and stoppages on Tuesday.
McIlroy managed to just play ...
Bjorn Pays McIlroy Ultimate Compliment: “I Would Pay To Watch Him Play”.
St. Louis, Missouri …
European Ryder Cup captain, Thomas Bjorn has paid Rory McIlroy the ultimate compliment saying he would pay to watch the four-time Major winner play.
Bjorn was speaking ahead of this week’s 100th PGA Championship being staged at the Bellerive Country Club course in suburban St. Louis, Missouri.
However, after century high temperatures greeted players on Monday and the first day of official practice, the course was closed early Tuesday local time due to thunderstorms ...
