Shane Lowry Headed To Merion & US Open If Finishing Top-3 At Wentworth.
Ireland’s Shane Lowry is headed to next month’s US Open if he can finish top three in this week’s BMW PGA Championship.
Lowry is currently ranked 79th in the world and top three in the flagship European Tour event would put the reigning Portugal Masters champion inside the top-60 and the June 13th US Open.
Lowry birdied his closing two holes in a second round 71 to move into a share of eighth place and just four shots from the lead.
Day two of the BMW PGA was very much akin to conditions ...
McIlroy & McDowell Head Five Medinah Miracle Workers Crashing Out Of BMW PGA
World No. 2 Rory McIlroy’s indifferent season continued to be also among five members of last year’s victorious European Ryder Cup team to miss the cut in the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth.
With the US Open less than a month away, McIlroy could only manage to hit four fairways in shooting a three over par 75 for a five over par total.
McIlroy’s second round in the European Tour flagship event was a roller-coaster front nine of four birdies but also five bogeys.
He then steadied ...
Nicolas Colsaerts Bounces Back From Bulgaria Bursting Up The Burma Road Board.
Belgium’s big-hittingn Nicolas Colsaerts bounced back from last week’s Bulgarian disappointed and burst up the Burma Road leader board on day two of the BMW PGA Championship at a rain-sodden Wentworth.
Colsaerts added a two under par 70 to his opening round 72 to be lying just four strokes behind his Medinah winning colleague, Francesco Molinari mid-afternoon in the European Tour’s flagship event.
Colsaerts had been beaten by eventual champion, Graeme McDowell in his defence of ...
Ian Poulter Crashes Off Burma Road & Now Heading To Monaco F1 Grand Prix
Ian Poulter is heading to Sunday’s Monaco Formula One Grand Prix after crashing off the Burma Road course on day two of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth.
Joining Poulter in missing the halfway cut is double defending champion, Luke Donald with the current World No. 6 Donald posting a second round 72 for a shock six over par tally in the cold and rainy conditions on day two of the European Tour’s flagship event.
“Even for England this weather is pretty unseasonal and it made the course ...
Royal Trophy Heading To Guangzhou, China
THE ROYAL TROPHY TO BE HOSTED IN CHINA
The next edition of the Royal Trophy will be held on 20-22 December 2013 at Dragon Lake Golf Club in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province in the People’s Republic of China.
“We are very pleased to announce that the next edition of the Royal Trophy will be held at Dragon Lake Golf Club in China. The previous edition of the competition ...
James Kingston Makes Most Of BMW PGA Invitation.
South African James Kingston made the most of a sponsor’s invitation and the cold, wet conditions at Wentworth Club to take the first-round lead in the BMW PGA Championship with a sublime six under par 66.
That gave the South African a one stroke advantage over Finn Mikko Ilonen, with Spaniard Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño and Scottish rookie Scott Henry on four under par. Austrian Martin Wiegele was also four under after 13 holes when play was suspended for the day, after earlier thunderstorms ...
Miguel Angel Jiminez Joins ‘600 Tour Events Club’.
Spain’s Miguel Angel Jimenez today joined the European Tour’s ‘600 Tour Events’ Club.
Jimenez became the sixth player in 41-year history of the European Tour to reach 600 appearances, joining Sam Torrance (706), Barry Lane (682), Roger Chapman (619), Eamonn Darcy (610) and Malcolm McKenzie (605) in that rarefied group.
In recognition of his remarkable achievement, Jiménez, the first player from Continental Europe to reach the 600 milestone, was presented with a unique tantalus ...
