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A week after his much-acclaimed WGC – Accenture Match-Play success and Australia’s Jason Day returns to his day job for Thursday’s commencing WGC – Cadillac Championship here at Doral. Day had overcome the swash-buckling recovery efforts of Frenchman Victor Dubuisson to capture only his second PGA Tour title, and also his second individual in as many months after securing individual leading honours in the 2013 Handa World Cup of Golf in Melbourne. The current World No. 4 ...

In a huge coup for an ultra-private golf club in Florida, the four Major winners from 2013 gathered for an historic photograph ahead of this week’s WGC – Cadillac Championship. And the four Major Champions, with the exception of Australia’s Adam Scott, brought with them the gleaming symbol of their success. In Adam’s case, he wore the most sought-after item of apparel in all of golf – an Augusta National green jacket. England’s Justin Rose arrived with the US ...

There was no Academy Award for Rory McIlroy after letting slip victory with what can only be described as a train wreck display over the final round in the 2014 Honda Classic title. The double Major winner, who went into day four leading by two and had led from day one, ended regulation play in a four way tie for the lead on nine-under par after signing for a shock round of 74. “I was fortunate that I was in the playoff,” said McIlroy. “I didn’t play well enough at all down ...

Rory McIlroy heads a European take-over on day two of the PGA Tour’s Honda Classic. The double Major winning McIlroy added  a second round 66 to his opening 63 to move to 10-under par in the $US 6m event at Palm Beach Gardens in Florida. Zimbabwe’s Brendon De Jonge shot a 64 to move into second place and just a shot behind McIlroy on 10-under par. American Russell Hendry finds himself the lone American in the top five posting a 68 to be third on eight under par. Scotland’s Russell ...

Double Major winning Rory McIlroy delivered his mum, Rosie an ideal birthday gift with a blistering nine under par 63 to snatch the clubhouse lead on the opening day of the Honda Classic. McIlroy was wearing the orange colours of budget airline Easyjet but his display around the PGA National course was anything but budget with the 24-year old greatly impressing with a bogey-free seven under par score. And watching the action close hand was McIlroy’s mum, along with father Gerry who could be ...

World No. 1 Tiger Woods is looking to drive off with one Florida tournament success that has so far alluded him and that’s the Honda Classic. Woods is making just his third start in the event at the Champion Course at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens. He was T37th last year and finished T2nd a year earlier in 2012, closing with a final-round 62 to finish two strokes behind Rory McIlroy. This week’s event is only Woods third PGA Tour start of the wraparound 2013-14 season. In December, ...

A year ago, Rory McIlroy was at the center of one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the PGA Tour’s Honda Classic. McIlroy was the defending champion but the double Major winner looked more akin to a weekend hacker. He cited a tooth pain but that really was not at the heart of 27 painful holes on the PGA National course in Florida. McIlroy’s new Nike clubs and his crimson red driver had caused the then World No. 1 enough embarrassment. And 12 months on, the now No. 8 in the ...