Adam Scott Fires His PGA Best Round By 3 Shots To Tie Jim Furyk In Oak Hill Lead.
Adam Scott set about becoming the first-ever Australian to win two majors in a single season after posting a five under par 65 on the opening day of the PGA Championship at Oak Hill.
Scott’s score also is his lowest by three shots in 43 rounds of the season-ending Major and is two shots fewer than a proir best of 67 he signed for on the final day of the 2006 PGA Championship.
Hereunder is a transcript of Scott’s post round interview with journalists present here at Oak Hill.
ADAM SCOTT: ...
Scott Jamieson Scrambles His Way To 69 On PGA C’DShip Debut.
Scott Jamieson did himself proud scrambling to a one under par 69 on his debut in the PGA Championship at Oak Hill in Rochester.
Jamieson headed the field of seven Scottish born competitors teeing up in the season’s final major to be lying just four strokes behind former US Open champion, Jim Furyk.
Furyk, 43 is competing in his 19th PGA Championship while his score of 65 on the par 70 Oak Hill layout is his best starting round ever and also seven shots fewer than his first round when the championship ...
Paul Casey Looks To Be ‘Top Gun’ After Getting A Golfing Bite Watching ‘Jaws’.
Paul Casey reckons he’s found a novel way of getting back into a winning zone – watching videos of some of Hollywood’s biggest block-busters.
Casey and girlfriend, Pollyanna Woodward sat down last week in Akron, Ohio to watch the original Jaws movie along with Despictable 11.
Now the Englishman is looking to become PGA Championship Top Gun after this week viewing the Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis smash hit movie.
If anything a night at the movies seems to be helping as Casey revealed ...
Harrington Resigned To Friday ‘Practice Round’ At Oak Hill After Horror Day One 76.
Padraig Harrington already seems to be looking ahead to next week’s PGA Tour Wyndham Championship after his 76 left his sharing 147th place in a now 154-player field following the withdrawal of American Bo Van Pelt.
Harrington had 31 putts but it was the longest club in the bag hurting the Irishman the most as he could hit just eight of the 14 fairways.
He was already struggling to be five over par after nine holes that included taking a double at his sixth hole, and while he got back to four ...
Back-To-Back Bogeys Dampen McIlroy’s Charge Ahead Of Oak Hill Storm.
Back-to-back bogeys dampened Rory McIlroy’s drive just prior to a thunderstorm halting play late on day one of the PGA Championship in Rochester.
Play was halted at 4.25pm local time with McIlroy dropping back to one under par after 11 holes on the Oak Hill course.
McIlroy had raced to three under par after just four holes and easily putting aside on-going questions over his game.
The defending PGA champ holed a three-footer at the first, a six-footer at the third and then a three-footer at the ...
Scot Simon Yates Helps Steer Aphibarnrat Away From Race Track & Back To Golf Course.
Kiradeck Aphibarnrat, and Thailand’s version of ‘John Daly’, singled out Asian-Tour based Scot Simon Yates as instrumental in steering him away from car racing and into golf after moving well into contention on the first day of the PGA Championship in Rochester.
Aphibarnrat upstaged some of the more fancied PGA Championship rivals including 14-time Major winning Tiger Woods, to shoot a two under par 68 on championship debut and in only his second event in the States.
It left the burly Thai ...
Tiger Woods Insists 15th Major Still In Sight Despite Horror Oak Hill Finish.
Tiger Woods insists a 15th Major Championship is still in reach despite a horror double bogey finish to his round on day one of the 95th PGA Championship at Oak Hill.
Woods was cruising at two under par after just six holes before eventually signing for a one over 71 in increasinly hot and humid conditions in suburban Oak Hill.
It left the current World No. 1 trailing six shots behind 2008 and fellow US Open champion, Jim Furyk who held the clubhouse lead on five under par following a round of 70.
“I’m ...
