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Akron, Ohio … Shabhankar Sharma wasted little time after completing the WGC – Bridgestone Invitational and heading south-east to St. Louis for this week’s PGA Championship. Sharma walked from the Firestone Country Club course at noon Sunday local time with a final round 70 for a 13-over par tally. It was the current World No. 88 first appearance in the event and on the occasion of the final Bridgestone hosted event in Akron, Ohio. Included in Sharma’s closing round was three birdies and ...

Akron, Ohio … Russell Knox is quietly condfident there is a low score in his bag heading to the final round of the final WGC – Bridgestone Invitational. Knox never managed to fully recover from a third hole double bogey in eventually posting a three-over par 73 and drop back to level par in the $10m event. It left him trailing 11 shots behind American Justin Thomas who signed for a 67 to lead the field by three shots on 14-under par into the closing 18 holes of the $10m tournament. The ...

Akron, Ohio …. Rory McIlroy is getting a ‘little sick’ of finishing second and is determined to bring down the curtain on the last WGC – Bridgestone Invitational with a victory in Akron, Ohio. McIlroy didn’t drop a shot in posting a three-under par 67 to be tied in second place with England’s Ian Poulter (70) on 11-under par ahead of the final round on the Firestone Country Club course. The European duo are chasing this week’s PGA Championship defending champion, Justin ...

Akron, Ohio … It was the exact day of the five-year anniversary of his 2013 victory but it was not a day for celebration with Tiger Woods very blunt and to-the-point in summing up his WGC – Bridgestone Invitational third round 73. The effort sent Woods from just five shots from the lead after two rounds to trailing 11 shots behind fellow American Justin Thomas (67) heading to the final round in the last staging of the event at the Firestone Country Club course in Akron, Ohio. “Yeah, ...

Akron, Ohio … Double Major winning Zach Johnson was full of praise for playing partner Paul Dunne despite an eight-shot difference among the pair on day three of the WGC – Bridgestone Invitational in Akon, Ohio. Dunne found himself being asked to attend a random drugs test straight after signing for a disappointing five-over par 75 to drop to four-over in total in his first appearance in the $10m event. In contrast, Johnson made his first appearance in the event in 2009 and has contested ...

Akron, Ohio …  For an Aussie living in Ohio, Jason Day feels right at home. He and Ohio-born wife, Ellie along with their two children live in suburban Columbus and the capital of the State of Ohio. Ohio is the seventh most populated and the 34th largest of the 50 American states and with the state affectionately known as the ‘Buckeye’ State. Since 1962, Ohio has featured on the PGA Tour schedule with the first staging at the Firestone Counry Club of the World Series of Golf that ...

Akron, Ohio … Paul Dunne was delighted to birdie his closing two holes in a round of 68 to move to one-under par and find his way just inside the top-40 in his first appearance in the event. It had the Greystones golfer heading to the weekend 10 shots behind the leading trio of the England duo of Tommy Fleetwood (63) and Ian Poulter (67) and next week’s defending PGA Champion, Justin Thomas (64). Dunne superbly landed his second shot to just two-feet at the par-4 17th and then duplicated ...