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Bethpage Park Black Course – Not For The Feint Of Heart.
Bethpage Park, NY … There is a famous sign staring you right in the face when you walk down from the Bethpage Park clubhouse and make your way onto the first tee of the Black Course.
There also is probably no other sign like it in the world of golf.
The sign is akin to being on a ski run and advising you are about to tackle a black run, and what is usually the more-difficult in skiing.
So it is with the Black Course at Bethpage Park that the pros contesting the Barclays Championship will ...
McIlroy, Stenson, Day & Also Dustin Johnson Lead Push For Knox To Be Handed Hazeltine ‘Wildcard’ Pick.
Bethpage Park, NY ... Four-time Major winning Rory McIlroy along with World No. 1 Jason Day plus the duo of reigning Open Champion, Henrik Stenson and the US Open winner, Dustin Johnson declared Russell Knox is deserving of a European Ryder Cup ‘wildcard’ pick.
Not for a long time has some of game’s greatest players thrown their collective weight behind a player.
And their combined voices surely places European Team Captain, Darren Clarke in a difficult position not to go ahead ...
Jason Day Looks Back On His 2016 Majors Efforts With Disappointment.
Bethpage Park, NY … A year ago, Jason Day was basking in the limelight after capturing a first Major Championship – the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits.
However after the completion of the four 2016 Majors the game’s top-ranked player looked back on his efforts in the Majors somewhat disappointed.
Day was placed 10th behind England’s Danny Willett in the Masters and then went to TPC Sawgrass to stand head and shoulders above everyone and in the process become the fourth ...
Rory McIlroy’s Father Like Kid In A Candy Store Receiving So Many Golf Clubs For Ex-Nike Backed Star.
Bethpage Park, NY … Four-time Major winning Rory McIlroy revealed his father is revelling in Nike’s decision to abandon its golf equipment business given poor worldwide domestic sales.
McIlroy, who switched to using Nike clubs at the start of 2013, said he only learnt about the Nike Golf move two hours before the news went public, and with Nike Golf citing poor domestic sales of its clubs.
But then McIlroy, who tees-up in today’s (THU) commencing Barclays Championship at Bethpage Park ...
Rory McIlroy Reckons Euro Ryder Cup Rookies Staring At Hazeltine ‘Rude Awakening’.
Rory McIlroy reckons the five confirmed European Team rookies and possibly a sixth will be in for a ‘rude awakening’ when they get to Hazeltine later next month for the Ryder Cup.
It’s not that McIlroy says the rookies will have anything to fear in tackling the Ryder Cup host course.
The big concern will be dealing and coping with the overwhelming partisan American crowds each day of the three-day biennial showdown.
And while Darren Clarke hailed his Hazeltine top-9 automatic qualifiers ...
Rory McIlroy Confirms He’s Switched Back To Scotty Cameron Putter.
Bethpage Park, New York … Four-time Major winning Rory McIlroy confirmed he has switched back to using a Scotty Cameron putting starting with this week’s Barclays Championship.
It would seem logical given Nike Golf announced it is getting out of the golf equipment business.
McIlroy had been gifted a Scotty Cameron putter, and the same brand of putter he used to capture the 2011 US Open, during the course of the recent PGA Championship at Baltusrol.
However this was before Nike made their ...
Henrik Stenson Calmly Pulls Out His Rio Silver Medal From His Pocket.
Sweden’s Henrik Stenson delighted those present in the media centre when after the formal part of his interview he dug deep into his pocket.
In his hand was a small protective linen bag and inside was a 2016 Olympic Games Silver medal.
The Swede, who had gone so close to winning gold from England’s Justin Rose, had brought his Rio medal to this week’s Barclays Championship to show to putting coach, Phil Kenyon.
Stenson and Kenyon were on the practice putting green at Bethpage Park ...
