Australasian Tour Boss Defends Royal Melbourne Set-Up.
Australasian PGA Tournaments Director, Andrew Langford-Jones has defended criticism from a number of players, including Australia’s Jason Day, that the hot and windy conditions is making parts of the Royal Melbourne course ‘unfair’.
Day cited as an example the 8-iron shots he and playing partner, Graeme McDowell hit into the ninth hole.
“You look at nine, where I landed my ball, my second shot, a little bit further that what I would have liked it to be but it bounced over the green,” ...
2013 ISPS Handa World Cup Of Golf – Second Round Notes.
2013 ISPS HANDA World Cup of Golf
Dates: Nov. 20-24, 2013
Where: The Royal Melbourne Golf Club, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Par/Yards: 35-36—71/6,397 yards
Field: 60 players
Purse: US$8,000,000 – $7,000,000 for individual stroke-play/ $1,000,000 team competition
Second-Round Notes – Thursday, 22 November
Weather: Sunny day with high temperature of 18°C / 65°F with winds WSW 10 – 18 MPH / 16 – 29 KPH
Second-Round Individual Leaderboard
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World Cup Trio Bowled Over By MCG Inspection.
The trio of Norwegian Espen Kofstad, Indian Anirban Lahiri and American Kevin Streelman were bowled over when they paid a visit to Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), Australia’s largest stadium and the birthplace of Test cricket.
After a Q&A with MC Craig Willis, one of Australia’s most renowned sports broadcasters, the players were given a guided tour of the ground by Stephen Gough, the Chief Executive Officer of Melbourne Cricket Club.
The tour took in the tapestry made to commemorate the anniversary ...
Bjorn Calls On Europe’s PGA Stars To Set Example For Future Generation.
Players Committee chairman, Thomas Bjorn has called on Europe’s top PGA Tour stars to set an example for younger players after the criticism of the recently completed Final Series.
It was European Tour CEO, George O’Grady who admitted last Sunday in Dubai the Tour ‘underestimated the amount of golf’ the Tour’s top players had played throughout 2013.
This followed the South African Major winning pair of Ernie Els and Charl Schwartzel slamming the Tour into being forced to play two of the ...
Thomas Bjorn Four Putts Four On Route To Share Royal Melbourne World Cup Lead.
Dane Thomas Björn overcame a four-putt double bogey to sign for a round of 66 and take a share of the lead on the opening day of the ISPS HANDA World Cup of Golf.
Björn, bidding to become the first Danish winner of the World Cup of Golf in his fifth appearance in the competition, fell victim to Royal Melbourne Golf Club’s lightning fast greens on the fourth hole, but bounced back with six birdies to finish the first day level with Kevin Streelman on five under par.
Björn and fellow Denmark ...
Royal Melbourne Jumps Up To Bite Adam Scott Who Loses Ball In Taking ‘9’ At 12th Hole
Royal Melbourne jumped up to bite Adam Scott just four days after the World No. 2 successfully defended his Australian Masters title.
Scott was one under through nine holes but then walked off the par four, 12th hole with a quintuplet bogey ‘9’.
The reigning Masters champion hit his drive into trees and then played a provisional that also went into the trees. He failed to find the first ball but in finding the second he elected to take an unplayable penalty drop by taking his fifth shot back ...
Paul McGinley Stars In £5.3m VisitScotland Ryder Cup Promotion.
EUROPEAN Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley has played a starring role in a new £5.3m campaign by VisitScotland to promote the multitude of global events taking place in the country in 2014.
The 2014 Ryder Cup at Gleneagles and the Junior Ryder Cup at Blairgowrie both feature heavily alongside the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and Scotland’s Year of Homecoming in the new adverts, entitled Scotland’s Brilliant Moments.
The advert sees a number of Scots reading a line from a specially penned poem, ...
