Golf’s Exclusive ’63 Club’ – Full List Of Members
HIROSHI IWATA JOINS CLUB 63
With a 9-under-par 63 in today’s PGA Championship second round, Japan’s Hiroshi Iwata ties the all-time 18-hole scoring mark in a major championship. Additionally, Iwata set the competitive Straits Course scoring record by one stroke. China’s Wen Chang Liang had a 64 in the third round of the 2010 PGA Championship.
Additionally, Iwata achieved the following:
Joins Japan’s Isao Aoki as the only Asian professional golfers to post a 63 in a major. Aoki recorded ...
Rory McIlroy Subdued & ‘Annoyed’ After Poor Whistling Straits Day With Putter.
Defending PGA champion Rory McIlroy looked and sounded subdued after a second straight round of 71 for a two under par tally on day two of the PGA Championship.
On a day when Japan’s Hiroshi Iwata equalled the lowest score in major history with a 63 and playing partner Jordan Spieth shot 67, McIlroy had to settle for a second consecutive 71 at Whistling Straits.
Playing his first tournament since he finished ninth in the U.S. Open in June after seven weeks out due to an ankle ligament ...
Dustin Johnson ‘Thanks’ PGA Of America In Erecting Grandstand Over 18th Fairway Bunker.
One of the first things Dustin Johnson did in hosting the final preview press conference here at Whistling Straits was to ‘tounge in cheek’ thank the PGA of America.
You see, five years after ‘Bunkergate’ and there is a grandstand covering the majority of the bunker that cost Johnson victory in the 2010 PGA Championship.
“I don’t have to worry about the bunker this year, there’s a grand stand there. Thank You, PGA. I appreciate that!”
There’s ...
Double Major Winning Jordan Spieth Takes To Finding Secret Passageways.
Double Major winning Jordan Spieth’s States-wide approval rating has meant finding secret passageways to escape his inceasing popularity.
In nine short months, the 21-year old Spieth has become the new golden boy of American golf since not only winning the Masters and U.S. Open titles but starting with the back-to-back 2014 Australian Open and Tiger Woods hosted Hero World Challenge wins late last year, and two other PGA Tour titles this year.
But while Spieth could once walk down the main street ...
Rory McIlroy Will Continue To Play Footy Despite Fear He Had Broken His Leg.
World No. 1 Rory McIlroy insists he will continue to play football despite the fear of only just avoiding surgery on his injured left leg.
McIlroy tees-up tomorrow in the defence of his PGA Championship title less than six weeks after rupturing a tendon in a footy friendly back home in Belfast.
The injury meant sitting out contesting the Scottish Open and teeing-up as defending champion in the following week’s Open Championship and also last week’s WGC – Bridgestone Invitational in Ohio.
“I ...
Lahiri Lands PGA ‘Longest Drive’ Of
Anirban Lahiri has won the PGA Championship ‘Longest Drive Contest’ for the second time in three years.
India’s top-ranked player bombed a drive of 327 yards on the 593-yard, par-5 second hole at the Straits.
Lahiri, 28, of Bangalore, India, edged reigning PGA Professional National Champion Matt Dobyns of Glen Head, New York, who was four yards shorter at 323, while J.B. Holmes of Bradenton, Florida, was third at 315 in the competition on a hole dubbed “Big Country.”
The PGA ...
Harrington Warms With Lowry As Company On 2015/16 PGA Tour.
Padraig Harrington is warming at the thought of Shane Lowry next year joining the PGA Tour full-time only if for an added traveling and dinner companion.
Lowry indicated he will adopt the ‘Harrington model’ in tackling the PGA Tour and that will be not to base himself in the States but rather play a few events at a time and fly back-and-forward from Dublin.
“I’m not going to base myself over here as I like being at home in Ireland too much, so I will be staying local to Europe in that sense,” ...
