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TPC Boston, MA …. England’s Justin Rose has set himself the target of  FedEx Cup victory glory after muscling his way to a one-stroke lead on day one of the Dell Technologies Championship near Boston. Rose brilliantly bounced back from missing the cut in last week’s opening event of the ‘Play-Off’ series in shooting a bogey-free display of a six-under par 65 on the TPC Boston course. The current World No. 4 ended his round clear of fellow Brit Russell Knox and Mexico’s Abraham Ancer ...

TPC Boston, MA … Tiger Woods was singing the praise of a third different putter this season in posting a one-over par 72 on the opening day of the Dell Technologies Championship. Woods, and starting from the 10th tee, had been three-over par after seven holes in the bright but windy conditions before a first birdie of the round at his eighth hole. He then birdied his 13th hole birdie before the current World No. 26 ranked Woods bogeyed his 15th ahead of a two-putt birdie on 16 while he ...

TPC Boston, MA …. Scotland’s Russell Knox ended his round near 7pm local time brilliantly sharing second place on day one of the Dell Technologies Championship near Boston. Knox capped his round in holing his 109-yard second shot for an eagle ‘2’ at the par-4 15th. The reigning Irish Open champion had birdied 13 and then also birdied 16 and the 18th holes. “It was great.  I think I was just plodding away and playing okay.  And made kind of a mess of the 12th hole from the middle ...

TPC Boston,  MA … Rory McIlroy revealed he’s found a way better tackle the likes of  a rejuvenated 14-time Major winning Tiger Woods and red-hot current World No. 3 Justin Thomas. McIlroy posted a level par 71 on day one of the Dell Technologies Championship in Boston and then praised his switch from a TaylorMade TP5x to a TP5 golf ball. And while McIlroy didn’t set the TPC Boston course on fire as he did in winning the event in 2012 and then in 2016, there was enough good in his game ...

TPC Boston, MA .. It was an innocent question on the eve of the 2017 Dell Technologies Championship at TPC Boston. Rory McIlroy was asked simply:  “When you hear the name Thomas Bjorn what immediately comes to mind?” Of course, Bjorn in the 2018 European Ryder Cup captain and looking to regain the cup and continue Europe’s dominance of having never lost the Ryder Cup in 25 years on European soil. McIlroy’s answer to the question was pure McIlroy. Firstly, the scene is the ...

TPC Boston, MA … Defending TPC Boston champion, Justin Thomas is concerned there is ‘enough in the tank’ ahead of the American making his Ryder Cup later next month in France. Thomas was confirmed for a first USA team cap in finishing third among the leading eight automatic qualifiers following his recent defence of the PGA Championship. Thomas, 25 was never out of the top eight on the points table since late last year in capturing the CJ Cup @ Nine Bridges event and went about cementing ...

TPC Boston, MA… Rory McIlroy revealed he and coach, Michael Bannon delved back 15-years to videos of McIlroy as a then 16-year old at the Bangor Golf Club in suburban Belfast to bring victory in the three remaining events of the FedEx Cup ‘Play-Off’ series. McIlroy reckon he’s got over 1,000 videos since he first swang a golf club soon after he began to walk. But after going so close to a second success this year in finishing joint runner-up at Carnoustie and sixth a fortnight ...