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A small plane piloted by Hollywood actor Harrison Ford has crash-landed at an L.A. golf course. The star of so many blockbuster movies was piloting a vintage 2-seater fighter plane when the plane suffered a malfunction and Penmar golf course in Venice, CA. Sources say the 72-year old Ford suffered multiple gashes to his head before being rushed to a nearby hospital. And reports say it’s not the first time the avid aviator has crashed but then it has to be the first time he’s touched ...

World No. 1 Rory McIlroy escaped the clutches of the ‘Blue Monster’ in posting a one over par 73 on the opening day of the WGC – Cadillac Championship at Trump Doral. McIlroy was four over par with six holes to play before igniting the form that has earned him four Majors to play the last six holes of the Gil Hanse-redesigned course in three under par. If left McIlroy trailing a massive 11 shots behind American J B Holmes who set a new course record of a 10-under par 62 to lead ...

England’s Lee Westwood created a slice of history at Trump National Doral in becoming the first player to appear in 50 World Golf Championship events. By way of comparison Tiger Woods has competed in 44 WGCs and, of course, winning 18 including three Cadillac Championship titles. Westwood’s WGC journey started in February 1999, when Argentina’s Eduardo Romero bundled him out in the first round of the WGC-Match Play Championship at La Costa in California. Four months later the now Florida-based ...

Four-time Augusta National champion Arnold Palmer confidently expects to be welcoming Rory McIlroy to next year’s former Masters Champions dinner. With just five weeks remaining to the season’s first Major and already the focus is turning more and more to McIlroy as he seeks to become a sixth player to have won the coveted Grand Slam. A very frail looking Palmer was present at Trump International Doral and for this week’s WGC – Cadillac Championship at Trump International Doral and the ...

Marc Warren insists the Masters can wait as foremost on his mind is whether he qualifies to compete in next week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational or takes the family to Disney World. Warren joins fellow Scot Stephen Gallacher teeing up in this weeks $US 9.25m WGC – Cadillac Championship at Trump National Doral in suburban Miami. It is Warren’s first appearance in the no-cut and just 74-player event, and in also golf’s first big showdown of the New Year and with the Masters now just five weeks ...

After being clawed a week ago at the ‘Bear Trap’, Rory McIlroy is looking to exact revenge on the ‘Blue Monster’ and venue for this week’s WGC – Cadillac Championship. McIlroy missed a first cut since last year’s Irish Open in posting scores of 73 and 74 at PGA National and host venue for the Honda Classic. But then the four-time Major winning McIlroy believes it could be a ‘blessing in disguise’ not to have played all four rounds in an event, ...

Four-time Masters winning Arnold Palmer reaffirmed he will be fit enough to join Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player in hitting the 2015 Masters ‘ceremonial’ tee shot. Palmer is still recovering after dislocating his right shoulder when the now 85-year old tripped and fell during last December’s ‘Father and Son’ tournament at the Grande Lakes course in suburban Orlando. “I tripped and did a 360 on a section of carpet in the clubhouse at Grande Lakes,” said Palmer. “Oh ...