Tiger Woods Recovers From 1st Hole ‘Unplayable’ To Shoot Respectable 69.
World No. 1 Tiger Woods recovered from having to take an unplayable penalty drop left of the first hole to shoot a respectable two under par 69 on day one of the 2013 Open Championship.
In what is becoming increasingly common, Woods played a wild 3-wood tee shot off the first hole at Muirfield but then as the crowd began to head down the fairway, Chief Starter Ivor Robson was calling on people to stand still as Woods decided to play a provisional.
However while his original first ball was found it ...
Rory McIlroy … “I’ve Been Walking Around For Months Brain Dead.”
Double Major winning Rory McIlroy posted his second worst Open Championship score of 79 on day one of the 2013 Open Championship and then admitted he’s been walking around for the past six months – brain dead!
McIlroy posted just two birdies but also six bogeys and a pair of double bogeys in a score that was just one shot less than the 80 he posted on day two of the 2010 Open Championship at St. Andrews.
The 24-year-old confessed to feeling “a little lost” as he missed the ...
Isle Of Man Golfer Pulls Off Man Of Steel Ace.
The Isle of Man’s Marc Morley has pulled off what has to be a ‘Man of Steel’ effort in claiming a hole-in-one on a 300-yard par four.
Morley, 35, from Port Erin, achieved the incredible feat on the 305-yard, par-four 15th at his club, Rowany, and the 13-handicapper was rewarded with membership of the exclusive BOSS Watches H1 Club and a specially-commissioned, commemorative timepiece.
But it was the fact that Morley’s albatross was secured on such a long hole that raises his ...
Oosthuizen Neck Injury To Force Him Out Of Bridgestone Invitational & PGA Championship.
Former Open Champion, Louis Oosthuizen was forced to withdraw from this year’s Open Championship after playing his tee shot at the par five, ninth hole.
Oosthuizen shook hands with playing partners Tiger Woods and Graeme McDowell before heading to the closeby rented house he has been residing this week to have treatment on his injury.
“I’m bitterly disappointed to have to pull out of The Open and it looks likely now I am going to have to take some time off and give the injury the rest I’ve ...
Lloyd Saltman’s Horror Open Start – 8 At Muirfield’s First Hole.
Scotland’s Lloyd Saltman got off to a horror start in today’s start to the 142nd Open Championship.
Saltman, who lives less than five minutes from the course, was teeing up in the first group of the day at 6.32am.
However the former Walker Cup and competing in his third Open Championship put two balls out of bounds at the first hole on route to a quadruple bogey ‘8’.
Saltman’s opening shot with a fairway wood sailed clear over a 20-foot high screen right off the tee ...
Faldo Flies The Union Jack At Muirfield.
Six-time Majors winner Nick Faldo turned plenty of heads on the final day of practice ahead of the 142nd Open Championship.
Faldo is competing in golf’s oldest major for a first time since missing the halfway cut in the 2010 Open at St. Andrews.
And it wasn’t Faldo’s golfing game today at Muirfield, where he won The Open in 1987 and 1992, that was drawing attention to the golfer who turns 57 on Sunday but his regal attire.
Faldo looked dapper in a Union Jack flag vest as Fran Caffrey ...
Justin Rose Moving Quickly On From Merion.
It may be only a month since Justin Rose captured ther US Open but the Englishman has quickly sought to move on and focus on adding a second Major Championship to his golfing CV.
Rose first burst onto the international stage in brilliant manner by holing a chip shot at the final hole to secure fourth place in the 1998 Open at Royal Birkdale.
He then just 17 years of age and tomorrow at age 32 Rose will step onto the first tee in his 12th Open Championship looking to become the first golfer since ...
