Injured ‘Beef’ Joins Fleetwood In Withdrawing From British Masters.
Race to Dubai front-running Tommy Fleetwood and popular Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston have been forced out of this week’s British Masters.
Fleetwood, 26 advised the European Tour he has elected to stay with his partner and manager, Clare who is soon to give birth to the couple’s child.
“I wanted to give myself every chance of playing this week, but being there at the birth of your child is a special moment in anyone’s life and I would not want to miss it,” said Fleetwood.
“Lee Westwood ...
Barker Takes MENA Tour Route 66 With Clarke Four Back At Yas Links.
Springbok rising star, Kyle Barker took Route 66 to open-up a two-shot leading cushion on day one of the MENA Tour’s Golf Citizen Abu Dhabi Open on Monday.
Barker, 19 grabbed five birdies, including three in a row from the first, to turn in 31 before off-setting his lone bogey on the 10th with further birdies on the 13th and 16th as fading light forced play to be suspended leaving 12 players still to complete their round on the Kyle Phillips designed cousre in the UAE capital.
Former Open Champion, ...
Schauffee Wins Tour Championship As Thomas Walks Off With $10m FedEx Cup Victory Package.
Atlanta, GA …
Unheralded rookie Xander Schauffele won the $3.5m Tour Championship first prize but it was ‘Player of the Year’ elect Justin Thomas who brilliantly collected the $10m FedEx Cup victory package in Atlanta.
Schauffele, 23 in just his 30th event on Tour captured a second Tour title this year with a dramatic three-foot birdie at the last in a 68 for a one-stroke 12-under winning tally on the East Lake course.
“This year has just been a wild ride as I somehow managed ...
Clarke Returns To MENA Tour Teeing-Up In Golf Citizen Abu Dhabi Open At Yas Links.
Former Open Champion, Darren Clarke will make his second MENA Tour appearance in three starts, when he tees-up in the Golf Citizen Abu Dhabi Open at Yas Links on Monday.
Clarke, and patron to the Tour, teed-up a fortnight ago in the Dubai Creek Open shooting scores of 68 and 69 ahead of a disappointing third and last round 74.
Two years earlier, Clarke made his MENA Tour debut at the 2015 Ras Al Khaimah Classic where he finished in a tie for second.
Now the popular Ulsterman has returned to the ...
Casey On Target To Celebrate Daughter’s Birth With $US 11.5m East Lake Victory Celebration.
Atlanta, GA …
Paul Casey is on target to celebrate the birth of his daughter with a whopping $Us 11.5m victory celebration at the Tour Championship in Atlanta.
Casey brilliantly grabbed a sixth hole eagle and five birdies in a third round 65 and take a two-shot lead at 12-under in the final round on the East Lake course in Atlanta.
The Americans Kevin Kisner (64) and Xander Schauffele (65) share second place on 10-under par while Justin Rose struggled with a 71 to be sharing ninth place on ...
Day Excited Three Behind As Leishman Struggles With Driver Eight Back At East Lake.
Atlanta. GA …
Jason Day was delighted to bouce back from dropping three shots in succession from his 12th hole to birdie two of his closing three holes in a round of 67 to stay well in sight of the leaders heading to the weekend rounds of the Tour Championship in Atlanta.
Day ended his round sharing 11th place at four-under par and only three back of the leading trio of England’s Paul Casey (67) and the American pair of Justin Thomas (66), and with the reigning U.S. PGA winner eagling ...
Justin Rose Shruggs Off Shoulder Injury To Muscle His Way To Tour Championship Contention.
Atlanta, GA ..
Justin Rose shrugged off a left shoulder concern to muscle his way into contention on day two of the PGA Tour season-ending Tour Championship in Atlanta.
Rose produced a superb up-and-down from a greenside bunker at the last in first playing a 100-foot wedge shot from the forward slope of the bunker and then was clearly pleased to see his 10-foot birdie putt drop in a round of a four-under par 66.
Rose’s round, that included four other birdies and just one bogey, handed him ...
