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World No. 1 Jason Day still has four holes to break the 36-hole low mark of boyhood hero Greg Norman in moving to 14-under par through two rounds of the Players Championship. Day’s opening round of a nine under par 63 matched the effort of Norman at the 1994 Players while Day’s second day achievement of moving to 14-under par through 14 holes has already matched a Norman’s 36-hole mark also in 1994. Play will resume at 9.15am local time and with Day heading out to the 15th hole ...

World No. 3 Rory McIlroy remained upbeat despite letting slip posting a new course record on day two of the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass. Needing to birdie the last to send his name into Sawgrass records, McIlroy walked off with a disappointing bogey in a round of an eight under par 64 for a similar 36-hole tally at Ponte Vedre in Florida. It meant missing out on a clubhouse share of third place and head to lunch tied sixth and just two adrift of the leading European-born duo of Sweden’s ...

Rory McIlroy scorched his way to a new 9-hole career low with an outward 29 on day two of the Players Championship. It was the second day in succession the Irish flag was flying high atop of the leader board in the $US 10.5m event after Shane Lowry posted an outward nine of 29 a day earlier to set a TPC Sawgrass record. McIlroy capped his round by putting from off the green and 53-feet from the hole at the 16th hole for and eagle ‘3’ and grabbed five birdies to storm to 7-under par after ...

World No. 1 Jason Day matched the effort of boyhood idol Greg Norman and in the process becoming only the the fifth player to equal the course record at TPC Sawgrass at Ponte Vedre in Florida. The reigning PGA Champion was in a class of his own grabbing nine birdies in perfect conditions in a round of a nine under par 63 to lead the $US 10.5m Players Championship by two strokes. Day’s round is his lowest since a similar round of 63 on day three of last August’s Barclays Championship and ...

Ireland’s Shane Lowry singled out what he described as an ‘emergency’ call to his coach as leading to setting a new back nine course record on day one of the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass in Florida. Lowry also posted his equal lowest 2015/16 PGA wraparound season score of a seven-under par 65 to head to lunch trailing two shots off the clubhouse lead set by World No. 1 Jason Day. Day’s score matched the course record set by boyhood hero Greg Norman and established by the Great ...

‘Wonderful’ Wolmer Murillo kept his nerve when it mattered most to climb to the top and capture the Mountain Creek Open by Golf Citizen on a rain-affected day here on Thursday, Starting the day two shots off the pace, the Venezuelan closed with a tidy 69, winning his eighth professional title — and the first in Asia — on five-under 211 as overnight leader Sixto Casabona-navarro of Spain faded out of contention after a final round 78. On a day when thunderstorms during the afternoon ...

Double Major winning Jordan Spieth has returned to competition for a first time since his Masters meltdown slamming as ‘absolute bull’ reporting States side on Danny Willett’s Masters triumph. Willett claimed a first Major brilliantly winning the Masters by three shots to be fitted with the famed Augusta National members green jacket. However according to Spieth that’s not how the 2016 Masters has been covered in the States. “Danny earned that victory and it really ...