Rory McIlroy Delivers His Mum Birthday Gift Of Sizzling 63 In Honda Classic.
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 ...
Woods Looking To Drive Off With First Honda Classic Win.
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, ...
McIlroy’s Honda Walk Off … ‘Everyone Makes Mistakes’.
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 ...
Adam Scott – ‘2014 Honda Classic Like A Major’ – Seven Of World’s Top-10 Competing.
Reigning Masters champion Adam Scott has ended a six-week competitive absence and declaring this week’s Honda Classic to mirror a Major.
Such is the strength of the field for the opening event on the PGA Tour’s ‘Flordia Swing’.
For the first time in 2014 the Nos. 1, 2 and 3 players in the Official World Golf Ranking are teeing it up.
Seven of the top 10 in the world are present, and according to www.pgatour.com the estimated 64 world ranking points are the most of any tournament ...
Jason Day Leaps To No. 4 In World, McIlroy Slips To No. 8 & Dubuisson Jumps To 23rd.
Australia’s newest WGC winner Jason Day has leaped to No. 4 in the world following his WGC -Accenture Match-Play success.
Day claimed his second victory in some three months despite having to play five extra holes to defeat Frenchman Victor Dubuisson in Sunday’s final in Arizona.
In fact, Day played six matches in five days and 113 holes to claim only his second PGA Tour counting individual event.
Day’s new World Ranking is a career high and it also means Australia now boasts ...
Victor Dubuisson 99% Into European Ryder Cup Team Says Paul McGinley.
Victor Dubuisson is 99% into the European Ryder Cup team after his impressive performance in the WGC – Accenture Match-Play Championship.
The quietly-spoken Frenchman has stormed to the top of the European Team points table despite losing at the fifth extra hole to Australia’s Jason Day in Sunday’s final at Dove Mountain near Tuscon, Arizona.
Present to witness first-hand Dubuisson’s impressive performance was European Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley, who was commentating ...
Dubuisson Shocks Four-Time Major Winning Els To Reach Accenture Match-Play Final.
French golfer Victor Dubuisson continued his remarkable winning ride at the $9m Accenture Match-Play Championship accounting for four-time Major winning Ernie Els in their semi-final encounter.
The quietly-spoken Dubuisson defeated his South African rival 1 up.
It means the Frenchman and reigning Turkish Airlines Open winner will now play Australia’s Jason Day in the final of the event in Tuscon, Arizona.
Day did what he was unable to do a year ago and that was to advance to the championship ...
