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After returning to World No. 1 Lee Westwood tees up in ths week’s Ballantine’s Championship in Korea looking to become a Major Champion. Westwood heads an impressive field teeing up in Seoul with the likes of Ian Poulter, Ernie Els, Miguel Angel Jimenez and the Korean heavyweight pair of Y E Yang and K J Choi. But after capturing the last week’s inaugural Indonesian Masters in Jakarta, Westwood is naturally upbeat about his chances this week in the former Olympic Games host city. “I ...

Lee Westwood has regained his World No. 1 position after fellow Englishman Luke Donald lost out in a play-off for the Heritage Classic in South Carolina. Westwood won the inaugural Indonesian Masters by three shots earlier in the day but then faced an anxious wait for the outcome of the PGA Tour event at Hilton Head. Donald went into the last round leading but didn’t count on American Brandt Snedeker shooting a 64 on the Harbour Town course to grab the clubhouse lead on 12-under par. The World ...

An electrical storm didn’t dampen spectator’s enthusiasm who sang ‘Happy Birthday’ to Lee Westwood in capturing the inaugural Indonesian Masters. Westwood celebrated his 38th birthday and hopefully a move back to No. 1 in the world, with a final round 69 to win by three strokes with a 19-under par tally in Jakarta. A tropical downpour had halted play for an hour with Westwood and Thailand’s Thongchai Jaidee still with a hole to play. But when play resumed, Westwood finished a clear winner ...

Golfbymiss.com accepted an invitation from the R & A to play Royal St. George’s and host for this year’s Open Championship. To coincide with the visit, two other golf clubs in Royal Cinque Ports and Princess, and lying at opposite sides to Royal St. George’s, also invited the media to play their courses. It was three days of excellent weather on three super golf courses on the south-east England coastline in Kent. Firstly, we took to Royal Cinque Ports located on the outskirts of ...

Double Masters winning Jose Maria Olazabal says over aggression led to Rory McIlroy’s Masters meltdown. McIlroy still enjoyed a one stroke lead standing on the 10th tee but walked off the final green losing by nine strokes to Springbok Charl Schwartzel. It now extends Europe’s Augusta National drought to 13 years since Olazabal won a second green jacket in 1999. Europe’s Ryder Cup captain watched the final action unfold on a 52-inch 3D TV screen in the company of long-time manager, Sergio ...

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Rory McIlroy’s dramatic Masters collaspe has cost the crestfallen Holywood starlet a cool $US 10m. That’s a ‘guesstimate’ figure McIlroy would have earned in coming years as a Major Champion. For three days, the golf world marvelled that McIlroy is on 21.  But then on Sunday, we were cruelly reminded.  He’s only still 21. But McIlroy’s collaspe in shooting a last round 80 not only meant losing the $1,440,000 first prize cheque.  It’s seen McIlroy blow a whole bank ...