Tiger Woods Hits Two Spectators Leaving One Blood Soaked On Doral Last Day.

Tiger Woods hit two spectators, including one with blood streaming from a head wound, early during his final round of the WGC – Cadillac Championship. The defending champion teed off just three shots from the lead but sent the crowd ducking for cover with his opening drive that cleared the spectator ropes down the right side of the opening hole on the Blue Monster course. Unfortunately a male spectator didn’t see the ball coming and it hit him right on the top of his head and with blood ...

Gallacher’s Battle Of The Banks – Turning Down $US 5.8m PGA Event For $US 1.04m Malaysian Open.

Stephen Gallacher has turned down contesting a near $6m PGA Tour event later next month to tee-up in the co-sanctioned Maybank Malaysian Open sporting less than half the prize-money. Being top-50 in the world, Gallacher was considering competing in the $US 5.8m RBC Heritage Classic at Hilton Head in South Carolina, and being staged the week following his maiden Masters appearance. However the Scot is turning down the likelihood of the $US 1.04M first prize cheque on the alligator infested Harbour ...

Rory McIlroy Seeking 2013 Doral Final Day Repeat Ahead Of Three-Week Break.

Double Major winning Rory McIlroy has targeted a repeat of last year’s final round, a seven under par 65, heading to this year’s fourth day of the WGC – Cadillac Championship. McIlroy tees up in Sunday’s showdown to the $US 9m event sharing 19th place on three over par and just five shots behind American Patrick Reed. Reed carded a day three 69 to move to four under par and two shots clear of compatriots Jason Dufner (68) and Hunter Mahan (71). However looming large in the ...

Tiger Woods Back Where He Belongs – Close To The Cadillac Driver’s Seat.

World No. 1 Tiger Woods muscled his way to where he is comfortable and that was close to the driver’s seat heading into the final round of the WGC – Cadillac Championship at Trump Doral. Woods snatched eight birdies in a blistering six under par 66 and in what was the lowest round of the day to move to one under par in superb scoring conditions in suburban Miami. The defending champion’s only dropped shots was a three-putt bogey on four and a bogey on the par three 13th. Woods ...

Bjorn Backs Torrance & Smyth Gleneagles Vice-Captaincy Appointments.

Certain future Ryder Cup captain Thomas Bjorn has fully backed the appointment by Paul McGinley of Sam Torrance and Des Smyth as the initial two European Vice-Captains for this year’s showdown at Gleneagles. McGinley announced the appointment of Torrance and Smyth last Thursday in Dublin and indicating he will wait to September 2nd, and two days after European Team qualifying ends at the Italian Open, before the double announcement at Tour HQ at Wentworth of firstly, his three ‘wildcard’ ...

Hideki Matsuyama Apologises For His Actions But Despite Twitter Ian Poulter Says …. ‘It Had Nothing To Do With Me!’.

Japanese golfing ace Hideki Matsuyama has apologised for his actions in slamming his putter into the 13th green during Friday’s second round of the WGC – Cadillac Championship. Matsuyama incurred the wrath of England’s Ian Poulter who was playing in the group behind Matsuyama. Poulter then took to Twitter and labeled the 22-year-old Matsuyma an “idiot”, saying he had “left a crater in the green for others to putt over.” Strangely, Poulter found himself ...

Padraig Harrington Suggests Continued Closeness Of Ryder Cup Could Lead To ‘Neutral Venue’. See The Video.

Padraig Harrington used last Thursday night’s annual Irish Golf Writers Awards dinner to suggest the possibility of a Ryder Cup ‘neutral venue’ if the biannual encounters between the USA and European Team’s continue to be as close as they have been in recent years. Harrington was among a who’s who of Irish golf attending the dinner at the famed Portmarnock Golf Club. The dinner is actually held each year in December but was put on this occasion to accommodate European ...