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Padraig Harrington Reluctant To Take One-Time PGA Tour Exemption.
Padraig Harrington is reluctant to draw on a PGA Tour money list exemption should he not finish first or second in this week’s Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina.
The 75th anniversary event being played on the Donald Ross designed Sedgefield Country Club course is a Harrington ‘Last Chance Saloon’ scenario for the triple Major Champion.
Harrington’s currently ranked 188th on the Tour money list and needs to be inside the top-25 at the close of this week’s $US 5.3m event ...
Stephen Gallacher’s Scotland ‘Feel Good’ Factors Ahead Of Wyndham C’ship Debut.
Stephen Gallacher has a Scotland ‘feel good’ reason to do well and secure his 2014/15 PGA Tour card at this week’s Wyndham Championship at Greensboro, North Carolina.
Gallacher is making his debut in the $5.3m event being played on the superb Donald Ross designed Sedgefield Country Club course.
Just prior to turning into the course Gallacher passes Scotland Street and then when inside there is a permanent reminder on a ‘Former Champions’ wall featuring fellow Scot Sandy Lyle who captured ...
Wyndham Championship Celebrates 75 Years Creating PGA Tour History.
This year’s Wyndham Championship is celebrating the 75th staging of the event at Greensboro, North Carolina.
Some of golf’s greatest names have tasted success in the event including a then 20-year old Spaniard Seve Ballesteros, and competing in the US for a first time in his career.
There was also the time in April 1968 when Friday’s second round was cancelled due the killing in Memphis of Civil Rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King.
However there is one golfer who stands out more ...
Tiger Woods Last Major Victory Opponent Offers Rory McIlroy Some Timely Advice.
It is not commonly known but fellow American Rocco Mediate was Tiger Woods opponent when Woods six years ago captured a 14th and his last Major Championship.
Mediate tied Woods in regulation play at the 2008 US Open at Torrey Pines in California and then he and Woods were tied after Monday’s 18-hole play-off before Woods won in sudden-death at the first extra hole, and the 91st of the tournament.
Woods competed virtually on one leg as he struggled with pain that week, and it was not surprising ...
Robin Williams Dead But Golf Will Always Remember His ‘Tribute’ To The Game.
Actor and comedian Robin Williams has passed away just aged 63.
Shortly after the news broke, millions of fans took to Twitter to express their grief and shock and offer condolences to those who knew him personally.
Many shared fond memories of the actor splitting sides in Mrs Doubtfire, tugging heartstrings in Jumanji, and inspiring awe in the award-winning Dead Poets Society, the radio DJ in Good Morning Vietnam and the Best Actor Academy Award winner in 1997 for his role in Good Will Hunting.
However ...
The Person Who Knows Rory McIlroy’s Game The Best Plays Down New ‘Rory Era’.
The person who knows four-time Major winning Rory McIlroy’s game best will not hear talk about the dawn of a new ‘Rory Era’ in world golf.
Michael Bannon has been McIlroy’s coach since McIlroy was just seven years of age but while the golf world is going overboard predicting McIlroy can go on to break Jack Nicklaus’ 18 Majors winning record, the quietly-spoken Bannon poured cold water on such assertions.
“I would never go there and talk such as a new Rory era and Rory breaking all these ...
Rory McIlroy’s Coach Believes Scottish Open Pivotal To Three Wins In Succession.
The coach to now four-time Major winner Rory McIlroy believes contesting the Scottish Open at Royal Aberdeen was the key to McIlroy becoming the fourth youngest player to win four Majors.
After missing the halfway cut at the U.S. Open, McIlroy delighted Royal Aberdeen organisers with his decision to contest the Scottish Open.
He stepped out to set a new Royal Aberdeen course record of 64 on day one but then handed back the seven shots on day two before ending his first Scottish Open in four years ...
