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Lowry Tees-Up At Wyndham Needing To Plant The Play-Off Foot Down If He’s To Be Memphis Bound

Shane Lowry tees-up in this week’s final event of the ‘regular’ PGA Tour season at the Wyndham Championship in North Carolina needing to put the foot down if he’s to be heading next week to Memphis and the opening event of the ultra-lucrative three-tournament Play-Off Series. Lowry is returning to competition after the bitter disappointment in missing the halfway cut at last month’s Open Championship, and teeing-up this week lying 76th on the Play-Off standings, and six spots from ...

Checkmate For Cejka Defeating Harrington To Capture Third Major

It was a victory checkmate for Alex Cejka birdieing the second extra hole to defeat Ireland’s Padraig Harrington and capture the Senior British Open title at Royal Porthcawl. Cejka, 52, made is a third Seniors major after capturing the 2021 Regions Tradition on his Seniors Tour debut, and a fortnight later the German won the 2021 Seniors PGA Championship. Now after birdieing the second extra hole over Harrington, Cejka has captured a third Seniors major leaving just the Seniors US Open and ...

Monahan Indicating Players With Receive ‘Financial Repayment’ For Staying Loyal To Tour

We are learning a little more of the PGA Tour’s agreement with the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) withTour Commissioner Jay Monahan revealing those PGA players who did not defect to the Saudi-backed LIV Golf would receive a “financially significant” repayment. “This program, should we reach a Definitive Agreement, will be financially significant in total and incremental to our planned compensation package,” said Monahan in his memo to tour members. “More details to come as ...

‘JT’ Jokes He’s Not Going To Write A Love Letter To Zach Johnson

  Justin Thomas joked he’s not going to write a love letter to USA Ryder Cup captain Zach Johnson should he not qualify automatically for Rome. The second round of the 151st Open Championship was still far from over and ‘Wikipedia’ had Thomas down for a ‘missed cut’. The 30-year-old Thomas never got going in his eighth Open appearance, and missed the cut in golf’s oldest major for a second year running and also for a fourth occasion. Thomas produced Royal Liverpool scores of a horror ...

Brown Fairways, Garcia’s Yellow Attire, Purple Dye Bomb And Tiger’s Royal Liverpook Red-Winning Shirt

The 2006 Open Championship was my first of now three ‘official’ visits to Royal Liverpool Golf Club. I have been fortunate to return to Hoylake in recent years as the Association of Golf Writers (AGW), and thanks to club secretary Simon Newland, have been hosted to tee-up each year at the famed club.  In contrast to this year’s ‘green top’, the Royal Liverpool course in 2006 was a strong brown colour, given it was a very dry England summer.  The fairways were rock-hard, playing more like ...

McIlroy: “It’s A Good First Step” In Mending Relationship With Garcia

It was www.golfbytourmiss.com asking the hard questions of Rory McIlroy following his victory this afternoon at the 41st hosting of the Genesis Scottish Open. McIlroy holing a very testing birdie putt at the last to capture a 37th career victory, and also a sixth national open title, with win over a wind-whipped Renaissance course to the east of Edinburgh. The four-time major winner denied top-ranked Scot the honour of winning for a first time on his home soil, who has posted a gutsy six-under 64 ...

Harrington Heading To A 26th Open Not Looking To Make-Up The Royal Liverpool Numbers

Padraig Harrington was heading south and a 26th Open Championship and not looking to make-up the Royal Liverpool numbers following his his top-50 finish at the Genesis Scottish Open. Harrington did end on the bogey train with three closing bogeys in a round of a four-over par 74 for a three-under-par tally in really tough windy conditons, so tough the wind-whipped foreshore of the closeby Forth of Firth looked more akin to a washing machine. Fortunately, Tour officials did the best they could bringing ...