Shane Lowry Arrives On Algarve To Find His Photo Splashed Everywhere.
There was one aspect missing from Shane Lowry’s defence of the Irish Open that organisers have not overlooked at this week’s Portugal Masters.
Unlike the 2010 Irish Open at Killarney, Lowry arrived at Villamoura earlier this week to find billboards, posters, programs and even tickets and official passes to be adorned with a photograph of the defending Portugal Masters champion.
And Lowry hopes to cap an impressive season by successfully defending his Portugal Masters crown this week.
The ...
Michael Campbell Forced Out Of Fourth Event In Succession.
Former US Open champion, Michael Campbell has been forced out of his fourth European Tour event in succession.
However on this occasion Campbell’s father Tom is reportedly to be unwell and Campbell has left Portugal, where he was to compete in this week’s Portugal Masters, and returned home to New Zealand.
Campbell had been forced out before tee off in the recent Omega European Masters due to a bout of food poisoning.
He then had to withdraw from the following week’s KLM Open and ...
Padraig Harrington Sinks To 99th In World Rankings – One Place Shy In Being Outside Top-100 In 14 Years.
Triple Major winning Padraig Harrington is now just one place away from slipping out of the top 100 in golf’s World Rankings.
The Dubliner has fallen to 99th and lowest position in more than 14 years.
Harrington had broken into the top-100 for the very first time in the opening week of October 1996 when he moved from 104th on the rankings and into 95th after finishing 8th in the Linde German Masters.
However he dropped out of the top-100 for a spell from 12th July, 1998 to 25th April, 1999 ...
Call To Make Seve Trophy Compulsory – Issue To Be Raised At Players Meeting In Portugal
After nine of Europe’s top golfers ignored the event a call will made at this weeks Players Committee meeting in Portugal to make competing in the Seve Trophy compulsory.
The European Continental team last Sunday under Jose Maria Olazabal’s leadership ended a 13-year winless drought to defeat Sam Torrance’s GB & I side by two points in France.
However the event was without eight players from last year’s victorious Ryder Cup side, including the US Open winning trio of ...
Bernie’s Monthy Medal Awards – September 2013
Nine months of 2013 already has passed by under the bridge and with less than nine tournaments left remaining where I will be in attendance this yea
Here then is the recipients of my Monthly Medal awards for the month of September.
GOLFER OF THE MONTH – Henrik Stenson
Henrik Stenson had been banging on victory’s door ever since the Scottish Open championship at Castle Stuart.
The Swede was then runner-up in the following week’s Open Championship, second in the WGC – Bridgestone ...
Olazabal Now Joins Ballesteros As Double Ryder Cup & Seve Trophy Winning Captain.
Jose Maria Olazabal has now joined his late, great friend Seve Ballesteros as a double winning Ryder Cup and Seve Trophy captain.
Ballesteros created and won the very first Seve Trophy at Sunningdale in 2000 and three years after captaining Europe’s Ryder Cup team to success at Valerrama.
Now a year after leading the ‘Miracle at Medinah’, Olazabal has steered his Europe Seve Trophy team to a two point triumph at St. Nom-la-Breteche.
“I am very pleased and very proud as the boys were determined ...
Harrington Believes Woods Will Break Nicklaus Record Of 18 Majors
Triple Major winning Padraig Harrington believes that Tiger Woods will break the longstanding record of 18 Major wins held by Jack Nicklaus, but fears that the US star will never regain the dominance of his early days.
Speaking during a brief visit to Almouj Golf Club arranged by banking giant HSBC and his management company IMG, Harrington said, “I believe that Tiger will become the greatest player. However, I also accept that records are meant to be broken and maybe, we may have an even greater ...
