McIlroy Cements His Place In Defence of DP World Tour Championship.
Rory McIlroy secured his best European Tour finish this year to guarantee his defence of his season-ending DP World Tour Championship with his share of sixth place at 15-under par jumping 24 spots from outside the top-60 at 62nd to 38th position and easily cement his place in the Race to Dubai finale.
Despite competing in last year’s Turkish Airlines Invitational McIlroy also will join fellow Ulsterman and US Open winner Graeme McDowell in not travelling to Balek.
However as it began raining near ...
Graeme McDowell Will Put His Feet Up For A Week Proud Of HSBC Champions Effort.
Graeme McDowell returns home to Orlando and his new wife proud of his achievement in finishing third in the WGC – HSBC Champions event in Shanghai.
McDowell went into the final round four shots behind Dustin Johnson and after muscling his way to the lead after just seven holes the American brilliantly shut the door shut on both McDowell and Ian Poulter when he holed a chip shot for an eagle ‘two’ at the par four 16th hole on route to a six under par 66 that was the same score as ...
Dustin Johnson Brilliantly Banks WGC – HSBC Champions Victory.
American Dustin Johnson holed a brilliant chip shot for an eagle ‘two’ just three holes from the finish to set up a three shot victory in the WGC – HSBC Champions event in Shanghai.
Johnson went into the final round of the $8.5m event leading by three and despite being overhauled by both England’s Ian Poulter and Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell over the outward nine Johnson birdied 13 and 14 and after eagling the 16th he then birdied the 17th for a popular victory.
It ...
Phil Mickelson Delights In Seeing People Shake When Handed The Claret Jug.
Phil Mickelson admits his biggest on-going joy is finally taking possession of the famed Claret Jug is watching people shake when the get to hold golf’s oldest trophy.
It’s now been nearly four months since Mickelson finally broke through at his 23rd attempt to capture golf’s oldest major on that sun-splashed afternoon at Muirfield.
Since then the Claret Jug has hardly been out of the Californian’s sight with the only exception being for his journey to China and today’s (SUN) concluding ...
Graeme McDowell … “I’ll Be Happy With Second In Shanghai”.
Graeme McDowell heads into the final round of the WGC – HSBC Champions event trailing three shots behind American Dustin Johnson, and while the Northern Irishman would dearly love to capture a first WGC title, he admitted every Race to Dubai point is now a prisoner.
After a ‘rusty’ display in last week’s BMW Masters McDowell is back in the deep end of competition and staring at a fourth success this season after capturing the RBC Heritage on the PGA Tour and then the European ...
Daniel Popovic To Skip Australian PGA Defence For European Tour Card.
Daniel Popovic will skip this week’s defence of the Australian PGA Championship title for the goal of trying to earn a 2014 European Tour card.
Twelve months ago the then Australasian Tour rookie ignored the distractions of life-size replica dinosaurs to lead from start-to-finish and win the championship by three strokes at the Palmer Coolum course in Queensland.
Earlier in 2012 Popovic was nearly set to quit the game to take care of his seriously ill father.
And while Masters champion, Adam ...
PGA Tour To Announce Setting Up Of PGA Tour Of China.
Tim Finchem as Commissioner of the PGA Tour is set to announce tomorrow the seting up of a PGA Tour of China.
The news, to be confirmed at noon Sunday Shanghai time, comes after the PGA Tour extended its tentacles in setting up a Latin PGA Tour and also the PGA Tour of Canada.
www.golfbytourmiss.com understand there will be 12 tournaments starting in March next year and each carrying a prize purse of RMB 1.2m or close to $US 200,000.
And given revelations some months ago the PGA Tour was considering ...
