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Knox Soaring With Pro-Career First Albatross At The Valspar
Top Scot Russell Knox was soaring in holing a 274-yard shot for an albatross and muscle his into contention on day one of the Valspar Championship in Tampa, Florida.
Knox was two-over par standing over his second shot at the par-5 11th hole n the Innisbrook course and when his second ran up onto the green and disappeared into the cup, the Scot found himself at one-under on the course famed for the closing three holes affectionately known as the ‘Snake Pit’.
The current World No. 62 ...
Harrington Has Wrist Taped But Uses His Head To Deposit Respectable Maybank 70 In KL.
Padraig Harrington had his injured wrist strapped but used his head in posting a respectable style with a round of a two-under par 70 on day one of the Maybank Championship in Kuala Lumpur.
The triple Major winner, and sporting a bit of a post-festive season girth, headed to the Saujana clubhouse five shots behind Aussie Marcus Fraser and Spaniard Nacho Elvira who each posted five-under par 67s.
It is Harrington’s first competitive round anywhere in 130 days and since posting a final round 69 to ...
Beware The Injury Golfer As Harrington Tees-Up In KL With His Injured Wrist Not Fully Healed
Beware the injured golfer
Padraig Harrington, and not for a first time in his long and very distinguished career, tees-up in Kuala Lumpur for a tenth time in his career with the uncertainty his injured wrist is not fully healed ahead of this week’s co-sanctioned Maybank Championship.
Harrington had been due to commence his 14th season in the pro ranks earlier this year in the Middle East while the injury, suffered mid-December when he slipped down the staircase in his house, also ruled him out ...
Harrington Gets Okay To Return To Competition In This Week’s Maybank Championship
Padraig Harrington has arrived in Kuala Lumpur and this week’s Maybank Championship quietly confident his injured wrist has fully healed ahead of teeing-up on the Saujana CC course.
This week is ‘take two’ in Harrington’s attempt to kick-start his 2019 season after injuring his wrist on December 19th after slipping on the staircase of his Dublin residence. It wasn’t till he underwent an x-ray that he broken a bone in his wrist.
The injury was no more evident when Harrington ...
McIlroy Now 7/1 Favourite With Bookies To Win The Masters
No sooner had Rory McIlroy been handed the ‘new’ Players Championship golden trophy and he had brushed Dustin Johnson aside to become favourite to capture next month’s Masters.
Irish-based PaddyPower.com has installed the new World No. 4 as a 7/1 favourite to capture a fifth Major and with victory at Augusta National seeing McIlroy become just the sixth player in history of the game to win the Grand Slam.
‘DJ’ is second favourite at 10/1 while Justin Rose is 12/1
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Knox Singles Out New Aussie Coach For Praise As Scot Makes It 10 Cuts From 10 New Season Events.
Russell Knox has singled out new Aussie new coach, Bradley Hughes for praise after the Scot made it 10 cuts from as many events following last week’s ultra-lucrative Players Championship in Florida.
Knox has been golf’s ‘Mr. Consistency’ not having missed a halfway cut since last October’s Tour event in Shanghai.
Just once before in a now 175-event PGA Tour career has Knox produced a better run of consistency and that was 12 weekend cuts in succession from finishing T2nd at the ...
Subdued McIlroy Insists Sawgrass Success Merely A Career Journey Step In The Right Direction.
It clearly was a day for champagne showers and maybe making a splash diving into the water surrounding the18th green at TPC Sawgrass.
Not for new Players Championship champion, Rory McIlroy.
Of course, McIlroy was thrilled to become a Players champion in brilliantly lighting-up the course on a dull and overcast day to end a year-long winless drought by posting a final round 70 to win by a shot with a 16-under par tally.
The new World No. 4 had captured a 15th PGA Tour title and a 24th pro ...
