Thongchai Jaidee Exacts Revenge On Graeme McDowell & Presidents Cup Snub.
Thailand’s champion golfer has exacted revenge on Graeme McDowell in helping his Asian Tour to tie the inaugural EurAsia Cup in Kuala Lumpur.
Jaidee had lost out to McDowell in the final of the 2013 Volvo Match-Play Championship in Bulgaria but turned the table on the world’s highest ranked player competing in Malaysia with a 3 & 2 defeat over the Ryder Cup star.
And the very popular double Asian Tour No. 1 ranked Jaidee continued to display his match-play prowess after being snubbed ...
Asia Shocks Star-Studded Europeans To Tie Inaugural EurAsia Cup.
The emerging strength of Asian golf was for all to see when Team Asia completed a remarkable comeback to share the inaugural EurAsia Cup presented by DRB-HICOM with Europe on Saturday.
Trailing 0-5 after the opening fourball session and 3-7 after Friday’s foursomes, Team Asia, who was captained by three-time Order of Merit winner Thongchai Jaidee of Thailand, dug deep and showed their fighting spirit by winning six matches and halving two matches to tie the match at 10-10 for a share of ...
Europe On Verge Of EurAsia Cup Triumph – Need To Win Just Four Of 10 Singles.
The European Team needs to win just four of the Saturday Singles deciding matches to be assured of victory in the inaugural EurAsia Cup in Kuala Lumpur.
This despite the Asia Team dominating the Friday foursomes encounter to reduce Europe’s lead to four points – 7 to 3.
At one stage it looked as though Thongchai Jaidee’s side might recreate the whitewash Miguel Angel Jiménez’s Europe produced in the opening day fourballs, but by taking the session 3-2 Asia still kept their hopes alive ...
Espana Sends French Flag Flying High In Maiden MENA Tour Event In Morocco
Edouard Espana created a slice of MENA Tour history winning the Royal Golf Dar Es Salam Open and in his very first MENA Golf Tour appearance.
Espana commenced the final round two shots off the pace but closed with a bogey-free 69 for a six under par tally and denying overnight leader Ross McGowan by three shots and with Italy’s Alessandro Tadini and Germany’s Sebastian Heisele sharing third on a two-under 217.
The 24-year-old Bordeaux-born Espana grabbed three birdies on the front nine and one ...
Serghini Again Stamps His Home Grown Present In MENA Moroccan Event.
In form Faycal Serghini made a confident start to the Royal Golf Dar Es Salam Open, the second event on the 2014 MENA Golf Tour schedule, firing a four-under-par 69 in Tuesday’s opening round.
Picking up where he left off last week, the leading Moroccan pro reeled off six birdies, including four on the back nine, to take a one-shot over England’s James Housby with Englishman Ross McGowan and France’s Edouard Espana taking a share of third on two-under 71.
Among the notables, defending champion ...
Rory McIlroy Letter Gives Lift To European Sir Michael Bonallack Trophy Team.
Double Major winning Rory McIlroy has taken time out to wish the European Team well in its quest to defeat an Asia Pacific side in this week’s Sir Michael Bonallack Trophy taking place in India.
McIlroy tweeted the 12-member Europeans saying: “As part of that winning team, I felt such a tremendous sense of pride and a belief that I had the game to compete at the highest amateur level – and perhaps beyond,” wrote the Northern Irishman.
“Your selection for the European team already ...
Laird Drawn ‘Deep In The Heart’ With Mickelson For 2014 Valero Texas Open.
Defending champion Martin Laird has been drawn ‘Deep In The Heart’ of this week’s Valero Texas Open with organisers grouping the Scot with Phil Mickelson for the openinng two rounds of the $US 6.2m event.
Mickelson is the winner of 42 PGA Tour titles but with the current World No. 5 making just his second appearance in the Valeas Open since contesting the 1992 event and finishing T42nd at Oak Hill CC in San Antonio.
“Phil brings another level of excitement when he enters a tournament ...
