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Jordan Spieth was left scratching his thinning hair after what he described his ‘worse score in years’ in his very first event, the Barclays Championship, since replacing Rory McIlroy as World No. 1. The double major winning Texan was two under par through six holes but then completed his inward nine in six over par with Spieth posting at 13th hole birdie but also six bogeys and a 12th hole double bogey on route to a four over par 74 on the Plainfield Country Club course in Edison, New ...

“By the way, your kid ate all my macaroni and cheese!” This was the response from double Masters winning Bubba Watson to a question put to him by newly-crowned PGA Champion, Jason Day. Day could have a career in golf journalism given his interviewing technique on the opening day of the PGA Tour’s Barclays Championship, and also the first event of the 2015 FedEx Cup Play-Off Series. Clubhouse leading Waston took the stand in the ‘flash area’ entertaining questions following ...

Adam Scott just laughed when asked what would happen if he and new caddy, Ricci Roberts were to win the FedEx Cup. Scott has the renowned and wily Roberts on the bag for the start of the FedEx Cup Series after Ernie Els, who Roberts has been the long-time caddy, failed to qualify for the ultra-lucrative Play-Off Series. “I was a little opportunistic on the putting green last Sunday at the Wyndham, and I hadn’t had anyone lined up to caddy for me these next few weeks, and it clicked that ...

Padraig Harrington will continue to play through the pain barrier but also needing to make the halfway cut in this week’s starting Barclays Championship in New Jersey. Harrington remained in the States this past week with his family and splitting his time between relaxing in Orlando and visiting New York. He tee’s up in the first of four FedEx Cup Play Off Series events lying 87th among the top-125 on the money list and needing to be among the top-100 at the close of the event this week being ...

Russell Knox will draw on this week’s Barclays Championship ‘Scottish Connection’ to improve his eventual standing in the FedEx Cup Play-Off Series. Knox will tee-up in the first of the four Play-Off events lying 44th on the money list and certainly assured of playing the opening trio. The Scot’s big goal is to be inside the top-30 at the close of the BMW Championship on September 20th to be assured of teeing-up for a first time in the season-closing Tour Championship on September 24th in ...

Newly-crowned PGA Champion Jason Day insists it would the ‘icing on the cake’ should he capture the FedEX Cup and then unseat World No. 1 Jordan Spieth in the votiing as PGA Tour ‘Player of the Year’. Day is returning to competition at this week’s Barclays Championship in Edison, New Jersey after his historic three stroke success over Spieth at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin. The 27-year old Australian intends contesting all four FedEx Cup Play-Off Series events and is hopeful, despite ...

It was an inauspicious return to competition for newly-crowned PGA Championship winner Jason Day when forced to push a broken down golf cart. Day had just spent a couple of hours on the Plainfield Country Club practice range in Edison, New Jersey and venue for this week’s Barclays Championship when he boarded an eight-seater motorised cart back to the clubhouse. However broken down around 50 yards short of its destination and with Day and other in the cart happily obliging the driver by pushing ...