Marc Warren Confident Of Following Good Friend Shane Lowry As Back-To-Back Champ.
A week after playing a practice round last week with good friend Shane Lowry and top Scot Marc Warren is warming at thoughts of lifting the Rodman Wanamaker Trophy.
Lowry defied odds last week of 125/1 at the start of the week to capture the WGC – Bridgestone Invitational in Ohio.
And Warren wasted little time sending off a congratulatory text to the bearded Dubliner.
However it’s not the first occasion this season Warren and Lowry have been in each other’s company heading into a U.S. event.
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Dustin Johnson ‘Thanks’ PGA Of America In Erecting Grandstand Over 18th Fairway Bunker.
One of the first things Dustin Johnson did in hosting the final preview press conference here at Whistling Straits was to ‘tounge in cheek’ thank the PGA of America.
You see, five years after ‘Bunkergate’ and there is a grandstand covering the majority of the bunker that cost Johnson victory in the 2010 PGA Championship.
“I don’t have to worry about the bunker this year, there’s a grand stand there. Thank You, PGA. I appreciate that!”
There’s ...
Double Major Winning Jordan Spieth Takes To Finding Secret Passageways.
Double Major winning Jordan Spieth’s States-wide approval rating has meant finding secret passageways to escape his inceasing popularity.
In nine short months, the 21-year old Spieth has become the new golden boy of American golf since not only winning the Masters and U.S. Open titles but starting with the back-to-back 2014 Australian Open and Tiger Woods hosted Hero World Challenge wins late last year, and two other PGA Tour titles this year.
But while Spieth could once walk down the main street ...
Rory McIlroy Will Continue To Play Footy Despite Fear He Had Broken His Leg.
World No. 1 Rory McIlroy insists he will continue to play football despite the fear of only just avoiding surgery on his injured left leg.
McIlroy tees-up tomorrow in the defence of his PGA Championship title less than six weeks after rupturing a tendon in a footy friendly back home in Belfast.
The injury meant sitting out contesting the Scottish Open and teeing-up as defending champion in the following week’s Open Championship and also last week’s WGC – Bridgestone Invitational in Ohio.
“I ...
Steven Young – Texas-Based Scot Makes PGA C’ship Debut.
Scotland boasts a remarkable seven players contesting this week’s PGA Championship including Texas-based ot Steven Young.
Young was born at Inverallochy near Fraserburgh and played in the same 1997 Walker Cup team as Justin Rose, and was the only played to win a Singles match the last day, and on a 6 to 18 point defeat.
He also contested the 1997 Open Championship, and in the year he turned pro, along with
the 1998 Open but missed the cut at Royal Troon with scores of 79 and 80 and then a ...
Shane Lowry’s Bridgestone Victory Toast Dampended By New Tour Stance.
Shane Lowry’s joy in capturing the Bridgestone Invitational has been somewhat short-lived by the European Tour’s decision not to co-sanction or afford Ryder Cup counting points to next year’s event.
The return of golf to the 2016 Olympics has meant for a completely revamped schedule on both the European and PGA Tour’s next year.
One big change is the WGC – Bridgestone Invitational will move from its traditional August date to June and two weeks following the U.S. Open and three weeks prior ...
Lahiri Lands PGA ‘Longest Drive’ Of
Anirban Lahiri has won the PGA Championship ‘Longest Drive Contest’ for the second time in three years.
India’s top-ranked player bombed a drive of 327 yards on the 593-yard, par-5 second hole at the Straits.
Lahiri, 28, of Bangalore, India, edged reigning PGA Professional National Champion Matt Dobyns of Glen Head, New York, who was four yards shorter at 323, while J.B. Holmes of Bradenton, Florida, was third at 315 in the competition on a hole dubbed “Big Country.”
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