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Rory McIlroy was again looking and sounding despondent in not being able squeeze more out of his golf on the opening day of the Players Championship. McIlroy birdied the opening two holes on each nine but let slip that good work when five under par after 11 holes to bogey three of his closing seven holes in a two under par 70. “I played pretty well for the first 11 holes, and played well pretty much the whole way around,” he said. “But then I bogeyed two of the short par fours, the second and ...

Germany’s Martin Kaymer was in sizzling form around the TPC Sawgrass course equaling the course record with a nine under par 63. The 2010 PGA Champion went out from the 1oth tee to be two under par after nine holes but stormed home with seven birdies over his inward half including birding his last four holes. Kaymer’s score matched the Stadium course record first set 22 years ago in the third round by American Fred Couples and then matched on day one in 1994 by Greg Norman and then last ...

Lee Westwood banged his knee heavily getting back into bed following a 4am ‘nature’s call’ but then got up to post a five under par 67 on the first day of the PGA Tour’s flagship Players Championship. In a first for some time in his career, Westwood was the very first player to tee-up in the $US 10m event starting at 7.15am local time. The recent Maybank Malaysian Open winner didn’t drop a shot on the Pete Dye designed Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass. “When I got here at 6am ...

The opening round of the Madeira Islands Open will now take place on Friday after heavy fog throughout the day negated any play on the Club de Golf do Santo da Serra course. European Tour officials made the announcement to abandon the day at 5pm local time and were hopeful of a restart tomorrow in what is the European Tour’s 1,500th tournament. While the capital Funchal was bathed in sunshine all day visibility on the golf course located some 600 meters high about the city was restricted to some ...

There will be an important visitor to the famed Royal Portrush Golf Club today (Thursday). Peter Unsworth is the R&A’s Championship Committee chairman and his will be on hand at Royal Portrush inspecting the course ahead of July’s British Amateur Championship However there is no denying Unsworth will also be casting an eye over the Antrim links gem ahead of a possible decision to bring the 2019 Open Championship to the Northern Ireland for a first occasion since 1951, and also only a second ...

JP Fitzfgerald, and the long-time caddy to Rory McIlroy, was disappointed when his tee shot at the famed par 3 17th island green was long and finding the water at the back of the Pete Dye designed green. McIlroy surprised officials when he arrived on the 10th tee around 2pm local time Wednesday, and after advising PGA Tour officials he would not be available for a Media Center press conference. His manager was contacted who advised that McIlroy would not be teeing up on the course ahead of his Thursday ...

US Open champioon Graeme McDowell will be looking to end a run of two missed cuts and in what will be his seventh appearance with his best finish being 26th in 2010. McDowell had spent a long time on the practice range working with long-time coach, Pete Cowen and actually having celebrated a seven-year anniversary working together. “We just sat down recently having looked over his seven-year stats and saying to him that they prove what a great player he is,” said Cowen. “Sometimes Graeme doesn’t ...