Jack Fleck – 1955 US Open Winner – Passes Away Aged 92.
American-born Jack Fleck, a former municipal course pro from Iowa who was engaged in the D. Day invasion at Normandy but who went from virtual obscurity to fame in stunning golf fans by defeating the great Ben Hogan to win a play-off for the 1955 U.S. Open title, passed away today (Friday) at age 92 years and four months old.
Fleck was the oldest-living US Open winner and nine months younger than Australia’s revered Kel Nagle, winner of the 1960 Open Championship, who remains golf’s ...
Harrington Confesses He’s Not Looking Forward To Watching Masters On TV.
Triple Major winning Padraig Harrington confessed he’s not looking forward to watching next month’s Masters from the couch of his Dublin living room.
Harrington will end an unbroken 14-year Augusta appearance unless he can capture one of the three events he’s contesting ahead of the April 10th starting Masters.
And not having won a main tour event since capturing the 2008 PGA Championship, as well dropping to 152nd on the World Rankings, means Harrington’s now used up all his exemptions to ...
Adam Scott Storms To Seven Shot Lead As Bay Hill Records Continue To Fall.
Adam Scott stormed to a seven shot record lead on his rivals by adding a second round 68 to his course record equaling first day 62 to move to 14-under par after two rounds of the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando.
The World No. 2 ranked Aussie, despite battling a sore throat, equaling the opening 36-hole Bay Hill low of 130 while he smashed the existing leading opening two days margin by three shots that was previously shared by Paul Azinger (1988) and Tiger Woods (2002).
Scott’s ...
Arnie’s Grandson Sam Saunders Finds Bay Hill Comfort.
Sam Saunders, and the proud grandson of Arnold Palmer, remarked he had never felt so comfortable on this week’s Bay Hill host course as he did in shooting a second round 71 for an impressive four-under par halfway tally.
Saunders is competing for a fifth occasion in the event hosted by his legendary grandfather.
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Augusta Winning Hero Adam Scott Endorses ‘Rookie’ Stephen Gallacher’s Pre-Masters Practice Decision.
Reigning Masters champ Adam Scott handed Stephen Gallacher an Augusta National practice routine seal of approval.
Gallacher is set to play his first official Masters practice round on the Monday of this year’s opening Major in the company of former winning heroes Sandy Lyle and Ian Woosnam.
At 39-years old, Gallacher will be oldest of the present number of 18 ‘rookies’ set to make their Masters debut and with just two players, Horton Smith at the first-ever Masters in 1934 and fellow American ...
Graeme McDowell Sinks 75-Foot Eagle Bomb In PGA Tour Career Longest Putt – Video Of Putt.
Graeme McDowell turned on the Orlando magic holing the longest-ever putt of his PGA Tour career on the opening day of the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
McDowell placed a second shot to 75-feet at the par five sixth hole and then holed the putt for eagle on route to a four under par 68 and on a course some 20-minutes from his Lake Nona abode.
Despite McDowell’s stroke of brilliance it left the double Bay Hill runner-up six shots behind Australia’s Adam Scott who warmed up for next month’s Masters ...
Martin Laird Marks His PGA Tour Return Being Led Off For Drugs Test.
Scotland’s Martin Laird marked his return to competition in a month is being asked to attend a random drugs test following his round of 71 on the opening day of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill in suburban Orlando.
Laird is returning to competition for a first in a month since his wife, Maegan gave birth to the couple’s first child – a son named Jack Andrew Laird.
However waiting for him following the round was a PGA Tour official and ready to escort the Scot to the privacy ...
