Percy Stands Tall At Safeway After Nagging Post Lockdown Injuries
Aussie Cameron Percy could proudly stand tall in posting an eight-under par 64 on the opening of the Safeway Open.
Percy, 46, didn’t drop a shot to end the first day in the opening event of the 2020/21 PGA Tour schedule being played in Napa, California.
If left Percy trailing just a shot behind Scotland’s Russell Knox heading into day two of the $6m event.
The effort was Percy’s lowest round since a similar 64 during the staging of the 2028 Barbasol Championship.
Though in speaking ...
Long Reef Golf Club – Long On Reward, Never Short On Satisfaction
It is the first day of a new decade – 1st January, 2020.
The annual Sydney New Year’s Eve fireworks extravanza has again provided a spectacle hard to be matched by any city in the world, and this despite the controversy of allowing the $6.5m pyrotechnic show to go ahead when there is so many devestating and life-taking bushfires still raging out-of-control across the State of New South Wales.
On the first day of 2020, the effects of the bushfires is clearly noticeable with a smoke haze ...
G Mac Pulls Plug On Returning Home For Irish Open – Will Defend Dominican Title
Tournament host, Graeme McDowell has reluctantly withdrawn from teeing-up later this month in the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open.
McDowell admitted it was a ‘very difficult decision’ not to return home in these continuing uncertain times.
Instead, McDowell indicated he will defend his Corales Punta Cana Resort and Club Championship title in the Dominican Republic.
It was clearly a difficult decision for McDowell just as it had been earlier this week with Shane Lowry who agonised over whether he ...
Knox All Smiles Posting Lowest Score In Four Years At 2020/21 Safeway Season Opener.
Russell Knox could not be happier breaking out in a huge smile in posting his lowest score in four years in muscling his way to the early lead on day of the Safeway Open and the opening event of the new 2020/21 PGA Tour season.
Knox set about burying the demons of the prior season with a flawless display of a nine-under par 63 on the parkland style Silverado course at Napa Valley, California.
It is Knox’s lowest score since a similar 63 in October 2016 at the CIMB Classic and his first event of ...
Lowry All Smiles In Shooting Safeway Four-Under Opener
Shane Lowry was heading straight to the practice range despite the delight in posting a four-under 68 on the opening day of the Safeway Open at Napa in California.
Lowry, and competing in the $US 6m event for the first time in his career, was level par through 11 holes and then played his closing seven holes in four-under on the Silverado resort course.
Scotland’s Russell Knox and, like Lowry, a former Irish Open winner grabbed an eagle and seven birdies in a nine-under par 63 to take the early ...
Johnston Goes With Two Of Joining European Tour’s ‘Sub-60 Club’ In Portugal
Scotland’s Liam Johnston went within just shots of becoming only the second player in a near 50-year history of the European Tour shoot a sub-60 round on day one of the Portugal Masters.
Johnston, 27 snatched 10 birdies to fall short to match the historic 59 Oliver Fisher shot on the same Victoria course two years ago.
The young Scot, and who won twice in 2018 on the secondary Challenge Tour, needed to eagle the last to match Fisher’s record low but had to be satisfied with a par while a birdie ...
Lowry .. ‘I’ve Known All Along Rory’s Wife Was Expecting’
“I’ve known all along!”
That was Shane Lowry revealing he’s been aware of the best kept secret in golf for many months and that being Rory McIlroy was to become a father.
Lowry was asked ahead of a maiden appearance later tonight (US time) in the Safeway Open if he knew the McIlroy’s were expecting their first child.
And being among McIlroy’s closest friends, and also a fellow Irishman, it came as no surprise when Lowry confirmed he had been aware of the news but what baffled the Clara ...
