Lee Slattery A Round From Ending Four Years & 132 Tournament Winless Drought

The very popular Lee Slattery is just one round away from capturing just a second European Tour title after posting a four under par 67 to take a two shot lead into the last day of the M2M Russian Open. If successful, it would see the 37-year old Englishman end a four-year and 132 tournament victory drought. Slattery, whose only other Tour victory was in capturing the Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano hosted 2011 Bankia Madrid Masters, had double at the 11th hole to then birdie the 12th, 14th and final ...

Centenary Australian Open Poster Released.

A special commemorative poster has been released to promote the 100th staging of the Australian Open later this year. There have been some golden eras for the Australian Open, perhaps most noticeably when across two decades the Stonehaven Cup was basically shared between Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Peter Thomson. And most of the great champions of golf have won the Australian Open. Apart from those three immortal names, there’s Greg Norman, Bobby Locke, Gene Sarazen, Tom Watson, Arnold Palmer, ...

Jason Day Gets Up From Wednesday’s Hospital Bed To Stand Tall At Barclays Championship.

Four days earlier newly-crowned PGA Championship winner Jason Day was lying flat in a local Edison hospital. The Australian had tweaked his back a day earlier, a combination of pushing a broken-down motorised cart out of the way and removing a box from underneath the family motorhome. Day left St. Peter’s Hospital here in New Jersey having undergone an M R I on his back and got up and walked out given the all-clear advice ‘everything was structurally sound’. The 27-year old is now ...

Adam Scott Admits His Season Has Been Spoilt By ‘Fiddling’ – Fiddling With Equipment & Caddies.

Adam Scott admitted there has been ‘a lot of fiddling’ after seeing his PGA Tour season end on a disappointing low in missing the cut in the Barclays Championship in New Jersey. Scott posted poor scores of 71 and 73 to miss the Plainfield County Club cut by two strokes. And despite PGA Tour earnings this year of $US 1.382m it is Scott’s poorest FedEx Cup finish since he was placed 110th on the 2009 money list and the year the Cup was first contested. Scott contested his mandatory 15 events ...

Henrik Stenson Looks For Ryder Cup Selection Start Similar To Two Years Ago.

Sweden’s Henrik Stenson is out to kick-start his 2016 European Ryder Cup selection campaign in a similar manner as he achieved two years ago. The star Callaway golfer posted a Barclays Championship second round 66 to shared second place and just a stroke from the lead with two rounds to play on the Donald Ross designed course in Edison, New Jersey. And it is not lost on Stenson that next week marks the start of the 2016 Ryder Cup qualifying process and with the now 39-year old looking for a repeat ...

Jordan Spieth Starts World No. 1 Ranking Reign With ‘My Worse Score In Years’.

Jordan Spieth was left scratching his thinning hair after what he described his ‘worse score in years’ in his very first event, the Barclays Championship, since replacing Rory McIlroy as World No. 1. The double major winning Texan was two under par through six holes but then completed his inward nine in six over par with Spieth posting at 13th hole birdie but also six bogeys and a 12th hole double bogey on route to a four over par 74 on the Plainfield Country Club course in Edison, New ...

‘Your Kid Ate All My Macaroni & Cheese’ – Jason Day’s First Attempt As A Golf Reporter!

“By the way, your kid ate all my macaroni and cheese!” This was the response from double Masters winning Bubba Watson to a question put to him by newly-crowned PGA Champion, Jason Day. Day could have a career in golf journalism given his interviewing technique on the opening day of the PGA Tour’s Barclays Championship, and also the first event of the 2015 FedEx Cup Play-Off Series. Clubhouse leading Waston took the stand in the ‘flash area’ entertaining questions following ...