Graeme McDowell Jumps To No. 6 In The World, Two Places Shy Of Career High.
New French Open champion Graeme McDowell has jumped three spots to No. 6 in the world following his command performance on the Le National course on the outskirts of Versailles.
McDowell captured his third event this season and just moments before Andy Murray became the first British-born male in 77 years to win Wimbledon.
He defeated South African by four shots a week after missing the cut in the Irish Open for his third victory in seven events. He is now just one win this year behind World No. ...
Monty Joins Langer & Watson Opening Two Rounds US Senior Open.
Colin Montgomerie could not have asked for a better grouping for the first two rounds of this week’s US Senior Open.
Organisers have grouped the Scot, who is making his tournament debut, alongside the legendary duo of Tom Watson and Bernhard Langer.
Watson is a winner of five Open Championships, two Masters and the 1982 US Open. He also is the 2014 USA Ryder Cup captain.
Langer became the first German to win a Major in capturing the 1985 Masters and then repeated the victory in 1993. He ...
Graeme McDowell Captures Third Victory This Season With French Open Success.
Graeme McDowell captured his third victory of the season with a tearaway success in the French Open in Versailles.
It sends McDowell to next week’s Open Championship in the best form possible.
However since the Masters McDowell has missed the cut four times but won the other three.
The former US Open champion carded a brilliant closing 67 at Le Golf National to finish nine under par, four clear of South Africa’s Richard Sterne, who had been only one behind until bogeys at the 16th and ...
Fabrizio Zanotti Primed To Capture Maiden Tour Win In French Open
Paraguay’s popular Fabrizio Zanotti is the last player to feature in the 2013 European Tour Race to Dubai Media Guide.
Zanotti’s bio details appear on page 297 in the guide wherein it highlights the recently turned 30-year old has in his six full years on the Tour since 2008 he’s had three second place finishes but it yet to break through for success.
That could change later Sunday afternoon after Zanotti posted a second straight three under par 68 to lead the 2013 French Open in ...
Dane Anders Hansen Finds The Front In France.
Dane Anders Hansen defied a hand injury and a toughened Le Golf National to grab a one shot lead on day one of the Alstom Open de France on the outskirts of Versailles.
The 42 year old Dane, who will undergo surgery in Zurich next week to try and overcome the long-standing hand problem, birdied his final hole for a five under par 67.
Hansen used all his experience to card seven birdies and only two bogeys as the venue on the outskirts of Paris gave glimpses of the excitement in store when the 2018 ...
French Ace Raphael Jacquelin Shares Rory McIlroy’s Expectation Burden.
Top French golfer Raphael Jacquelin shares the burden of the former US Open winning duo of Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell heading to this week’s French Open.
Jacquelin is among 21 French-born players contesting this week’s Euro 3m being played on the Le National course on the outskirts of Versailles, and set to host the 2018 Ryder Cup.
McIlroy and McDowell along with fellow Ireland-born Major Champions Padraig Harrington and Darren Clarke missed the cut in last week’s Irish Open at Carton ...
Monty On Target For Open Championship Return With A 69 At Gullane.
Colin Montgomerie is on target to return to golf’s oldest major after posting a first round 69 at today’s Open Championship Local Final Qualifier at Gullane No. 1 course to the east of Edinburgh.
Monty only returned to Scotland on Monday after finishing in a five-way share of ninth place in Sunday’s concluding Senior Players Championship in Pittsburgh.
The event was Monty’s debut as a senior and he ended in sterling manner with a final day 65.
Monty is looking to contest a ...
