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Spieth Storms To Hero Challenge Lead Four Days After Winning Australian Open.

Jordan Spieth has stormed to a one shot lead at the Hero World Challenge just four days after capturing the Australian Open in Sydney. That’s a distance of 9,336 miles between the member’s only Australian Club and the gated community at Isleworth Estate in Windermere, Florida. Spieth posted a six under par 66 in just his second appearance in the elite 18-man $3.5m tournament. “It was a good Thursday.  Really good start.  Nice to put myself in position under par; get a feel for ...

Woods Slumps To Last Place, 11 Shots Off Lead In Hero World Challenge.

Tiger Woods ended a four-month injury lay-off slumping to last place on an Orlando golf course where he was a resident for more than a decade. The much-awaited comeback in golf was for the best part agony for the Hero World Challenge host who sent his opening tee shot into a neighbour’s back yard on route to back-to-back bogeys on the exclusive Isleworth course. Woods then horribly ‘duffed’ chip shots at eight and 11 in a score of 77 to be 11 shots behind newly-crowned Australian Open winner ...

Greg Norman Making His TV Commentary Debut At ‘Shark’ Shootout.

Double Open Champion Greg Norman will make his TV commentary debut next week at the event he has long hosted – the Franklin Templeton Shootout starting December 11th at the  Tiburón Golf Club at The Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort in Naples, Fla. Norman will be paired Joe Buck as FOX Sports’ 18th tower broadcast team in covering the Shootout which is the longest running PGA TOUR-sanctioned challenge season event. The Shootout’s move to FOX Sports makes it the first PGA TOUR-sanctioned ...

Tiger Woods Ends Four Month Absence Driving Out-Of-Bounds At Isleworth First … Video.

Tiger Woods has ended a four-month injury lay-off by sending his opening 3-wood tee shot out-of-bounds. It continued a common thread as Woods has struggled when starting a round.  To single out a few instances there was driving into the Barry Burn on day one of the 2007 Open Championship at Carnoustie and then two years ago at Royal Lytham and St. Annes Woods had to call a ‘provisional’ when his ball headed into deep rough left off the tee on day one of the 2012 Open. Then Woods was ...

Ross Fisher Shoots Sizzling Sun City Sixty-Six As Siem Wins New Motor … Video.

Ross Fisher was in sizzling form shooting a 66 to lead after the opening round of the Nedbank Golf Challenge. The 34 year old Englishman, who had the last of his five European Tour wins at the Tshwane Open in South Africa during March, holds a two shot advantage over George Coetzee, Marcel Siem and Alexander Levy at the Gary Player Country Club in Sun City. Siem, playing in a group with Fisher and Coetzee, produced perhaps the most remarkable shot of the day. With an eight iron, his 183 yard approach ...

An Eye On Tiger, A Lot Of Bull & A Red Mustang Convertible.

It was yet another tough day in the office for this golf writer. Wednesday was spent walking the Isleworth Estate course with 14-time Major winning Tiger Woods. I joined a number of the US leading golf journalists in following Woods around the course as he competed in the Hero World Challenge Pro Am. And it was not just the golf journalists out on fairways of this exclusive Orlando course as also keeping an eye on Woods was new coach, Chris Como along with Media Manager, Glen Greenspan, a fellow ...

New Australian Open Champ Jordan Spieth Wants To Become A World Player.

Newly-crowned Australian Open champion Jordan Spieth is determined to become more of a ‘world player’ following his success in recent weeks. Spieth has been used to competing in Europe but on a first visit to Japan he finished runner-up in the Dunlop Phoenix Open and then on a first visit ‘Down Under’ he came out on top in capturing Australia’s premier event. And now ahead of making his debut in the Tiger Woods hosted Hero World Challenge the 21-year old golfing sensation is looking to ...