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Danny Willett is set to deliver absent World No. 1 Rory McIlroy another body blow in moving to top spot in the Race to Dubai. Willett tees-up in only his second WGC – Bridgestone Invitational in suburban Akron, Ohio needing to finish top-four to go past the injured McIlroy on the money list. The Sheffied-born Willett is only Euro 327, 206 adrift of McIlroy. And the 27-year old double Tour winner is the best of form coming off his Alpine triumph last fortnight and his second success this season. “I ...

Ireland’s Shane Lowry will use this fortnight of competition in the States to finally establish himself well inside the top-50 on the World Rankings. Lowry has been top-50 ranking ‘bubble’ since last November when he moved to 47th, and into the top-50 for a first occasion in his career following his fifth place in the season-ending DP World Tour Championship. The Bank of Ireland backed pro then jumped to a career high of 40th in sharing seventh place in the Farmers Insurance Open but then ...

World No. 2 Jordan Spieth is not one known for controversy. However the game’s hottest golfer and winner of two of the three Majors in 2015 has expressed his surprise there is no World Golf Championship category for Tiger Woods – a winner of eight WGC – Bridgestone Invitational crowns. Woods has won eight of the 16 Bridgestone events but at 262nd on the World Rankings and not having won a WGC counting tournament in the past 12 months there is no place for Tiger Woods not here this ...

Cleveland was founded in 1796 and is the second largest city in Ohio and the 48th largest city in the U.S. The city is located on the shoreline of Lake Eire, one of the Great Lakes. The city is home to the Cleveland Browns NFL team and also to the Rock & Roll Music Hall of Fame. And it’s also the birthplace of comic strip hero – Superman. And the Superman and Rock & Roll theme was present to greet those arriving at Cleveland Airport for for this week’s WGC – Bridgestone ...

World No. 1 Rory McIlroy may be injured and not defending this week’s WGC – Bridgestone Invitational but he’s been spotted about the Firestone Country Club course in Akron, Ohio. Patrons attending this week’s $US 9.25m event will be greeted by a billboard size pic of McIlroy as the 2014 champion. As well, McIlroy’s name appears on a plaque to the right of the first tee featuring all past winners of every event contested on the Firestone course. McIlroy’s picture ...

Aussie Jason Day returns to competition after securing victory in the RBC Canadian Open and went straight into bat for the absent Tiger Woods at this week’s WGC – Bridgestone Inviational in Akron, Ohio. Woods has won the Bridgestone backed event eight times – the opening three from 1999 to 2001, three more occasions from 2005 to 2007, then in 2009 and two years ago in 2013. That’s eight victories in exactly half of the 16 stagings of the $9.25m tournament on the Firestone ...

In the fortnight since Zach Johnson became the new Open Champion he’s had everything from champagne, wine, beer, Coca Cola, water and bizarrely a corn cob in the famed Claret Jug. The American returned home to St. Simons Island located on the eastern shoreline of Georgia where he’s spent the past two weeks entertaining family members and countless friends. “The Claret Jug has been in my possession the entire time since winning at St. Andrews and at home and it’s just been cool for me personally ...