F1 Fan Fraser Roars To Share Monza Lead Fuelled By Poor Season.
Race car fan Marcus Fraser is clearly excited competing next door to the famed Monza F1 circuit producing his lowest European Tour career score of a nine-under par 62 and seize a share of the lead on day two of the Italian Open.
The 39-year old Fraser is a big fan of Australia’s V-8 Supercar Series and he does enjoy visiting the F1 Italian GP race circuit that backs onto the Milano Golf Club course.
And with the sounds of cars testing at the circuit, Fraser picked off nine birdies, including ...
Found – Possibly The Slowest Golfer In The History Of The Game.
Slow play is the curse of any golfer professional or amateur.
Of course, the European Tour is planning to introduce penalties for any player taking more 40 seconds to play a shot but the 40 seconds includes picking a club, lining-up your shot and taking your stance.
But imagine being stuck behind a guy who takes an agonising 25 seconds standing over the ball and then when he finally gets around to swinging the club, he completely misses the ball.
And thanks to our good friends and colleagues at Irish ...
Boxall Recalls 27-Years Ago Being Left Without A Logo Shirt In Winning Italian Open.
Former Italian Open winner Richard Boxall remembers vividly the occasion 27-years ago at this week’s host venue in Monza when all he had left to wear over the final round was a plain logo-free yellow shirt.
Boxall’s five-shot 1990 victory over Spaniard Jose Maria Olazabal on the Milano Golf Club course was the now 56-year old Englishman’s only European Tour victory.
“Boxie” as he is more affectionately since swapped his golf clubs for a microphone to become one of the more-entertaining ...
Drysdale Goes To The Barbers & Then Cuts Bogey-Free Swath Around Monza Course.
Scot David Drysdale was so chuffed in getting an on-course haircut he then went out to produce his equal-lowest Italian Open round in just over a decade.
It is common at many PGA Tour events but the sight of a ‘barber shop’ at a European Tour event is pretty rare.
But then players and caddies have been lining-up at Barber Italia within the tented village on the Milano Golf Club course.
Drysdale’s caddying wife, Vicky posted a picture of her husband in the chair with the caption.
The ...
Molinari Shares Leading Lap Honours With Five Others At Monza.
Defending champion Francesco Molinari delighted a huge following of supporters in muscling his way to a share of the lead on day one of the Italian Open at Monza.
The crowds were treated to a rousing display and with the four-time European Tour winning Molinari sharing the leading lap honours with five others thanks to nine birdies and two bogeys in a seven-under 64 on the Milano Golf Club course lying next door to the famed Monza GP circuit.
Fellow early starters Kiradech Aphibarnrat, Jamie Donaldson ...
McDowell Wins Enough Italian Parmesan Cheese For 25-Years Of ‘Spag Bol’.
When Graeme McDowell captured the 2004 Italian Open he not only won a cheque for Euro 200,000 but enough Parmesan Cheese ‘for 25 years of Spaghetti Bolognaise’.
That was the tongue-in-cheek remark by a famed Italian journalist soon after McDowell sealed his second European Tour success at the then Monday morning four-hole play-off over Frenchman Thomas Levet.
McDowell won the event on the Castello Tolcinasco course and about the same distance south of Milano that Monza, and the venue for ...
Tommy Fleetwood Lines-Up On Pole Position In Monza.
European No. 1 Tommy Fleetwood lines-up in pole position on the Monza tee looking to extend his Race to Dubai lead in this week’s Italian Open.
In making his way to the course Fleetwood, like many others, travel via the main gates of the Autodromo Nazionale Monza and then make their way via tunnels under the main straight and then back straight to the emerge at the Milano Golf Club course neighbouring the circuit.
It was early last month fellow Brit Lewis Hamilton claimed a fourth Italian F1 Grand ...
