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Bethpage Park, NY …. Rory McIlroy revealed he’s prepared to wait eight months and to next year’s Masters to sort out the biggest problem in his game and that’s the shortest club in his bag. McIlroy turned around an indifferent opening Barclays Championship effort with a second day two under par 69 in continuing hot and humid conditions at Bethpage Park on New York’s Long Island. The four-time Major winner had moved to within one shot of the overnight on the back of four birdies in ...

Bethpage Park, NY … Tournament officials today announced a final field whose diverse accomplishments, backgrounds and native countries will make up the 28 two-man teams which will descend on Melbourne, Australia, to represent their countries in the World Cup of Golf at Kingston Heath Golf Club from November 23-27. The field includes: Six major championship winners 27 Olympians 18 past participants of either The Ryder Cup or Presidents Cup 2 sets of brothers 4 players in the top ...

Bethpage Park, NY …. Four time Major winning Rory McIlroy avoided a Dustin Johnson U.S. Open-like rules scare at the fourth or 12th hole of his round of a level par 71. McIlroy lightly grounded his new Scotty Cameron putter behind his ball but then moments after taking away the putter his ball moved albeit very slightly. “I addressed my ball, so I put my putter behind it, but with the wind, that’s a very exposed green,” said McIlroy. “And with these poa greens, as well, ...

World No. 1 Jason Day showed enough over the first round to send out a warning to his rivals he’s not about to hand back the Barclays Championship crown in a hurry. The Australian began his round from the 10th tee and the tougher nine on the infamous Bethpage Park Black course managing a one under par 34 ahead of three birdies and a bogey over the inward half of the course for his score of a three under par 68. If left Day trailing just two shots behind the leading duo of Scotland’s Martin ...

England’s Luke Donald continued a last ditch effort for a Hazeltine ‘wildcard’ pick with a two under par 69 on the opening day of the Barclays Championship. Donald teed-up at Bethpage Park Black Course coming off a superb second place finish in last Sunday’s concluding Wyndham Championship. European Ryder Cup Captain, Darren Clarke admitted in Denmark, where he is contesting the Made in Denmark tournament, he is considering upwards of seven players for his three wildcard picks ...

Bethpage Park, NY … There is a famous sign staring you right in the face when you walk down from the Bethpage Park clubhouse and make your way onto the first tee of the Black Course. There also is probably no other sign like it in the world of golf. The sign is akin to being on a ski run and advising you are about to tackle a black run, and what is usually the more-difficult in skiing. So it is with the Black Course at Bethpage Park that the pros contesting the Barclays Championship will ...

Bethpage Park, New York … Four-time Major winning Rory McIlroy confirmed he has switched back to using a Scotty Cameron putting starting with this week’s Barclays Championship. It would seem logical given Nike Golf announced it is getting out of the golf equipment business. McIlroy had been gifted a Scotty Cameron putter, and the same brand of putter he used to capture the 2011 US Open, during the course of the recent PGA Championship at Baltusrol. However this was before Nike made their ...