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Pacific Palisades, California … Graeme McDowell celebrated his 600th PGA Tour round taking route 66 to a clubhouse share of the lead at seven-under par on day two of the Genesis Open on the Riviera course. McDowell joined American Patrick Cantlay sharing the lead when poor light halted play and leaving 15 players still to complete their second round. Among those returning to the course early Saturday morning local time is Sam Saunders and with the grandson of the late Arnold Palmer having ...

Pacific Palisades, CA … Rory McIlroy has slammed spectators suggesting unruly comments, distractions and general commotion distracting Tiger Woods cost the 14-time Major winner upwards of two shots a tournament. And McIlroy himself admits he’s also put off so much by such comments he could easily take a couple of ‘Advils’ to deal with the behaviour. McIlroy was commenting after adding a two-under par 69 to his opening 71 and be assured of playing all four rounds of the Genesis ...

Pacific Palisades, CA … Tiger Woods is to tackle the ‘Bear Trap’ in confirming his will contest next week’s Honda Classic at PGA National in Florida. The venue is the closest on the PGA Tour to Woods’ palatial residence and it also signals the well-being of the 14-time Major winner is back on track following spine fusion surgery to tackle competing full-time. It means also it will be the first occasion Woods will have played back-to-back anywhere in the world since ...

Riviera County Club, Pacific Palisades  …. Martin Laird again passed a Hollywood golfing sceen test and delighting in climbing the steep stairs at the back of the 18th green trailing then just two shots off the lead on day one of the Genesis Open at Riviera. Laird managed five birdies and dropped just two shots in a three-under par 68 and trailing just adrift of the American duo of Tony Finau and Patrick Cantlay, who like Laird, were out in the afternoon posting rounds of 67. The Scot’s ...

Riviera Country Club …  Graeme McDowell delighted in producing a round to reflect his determination this year in signing for a two-under par 69 on day one of the Genesis Open at Riviera. ‘G Mac’ birdied three outward nine holes and dropping just the one bogey at 13 in a huge boost after missing the halfway cut last week at Pebble Beach and where he’d won the 2010 U.S. Open. McDowell hit 11 of 14 fairways with a laser-like display with the driver but struggled on the greens in recording ...

Riviera Country Club …. Tiger Woods got his Genesis Open round off the a great start when he birdie his first hole, and holing a putt of nine-foot to go one-under on the course when he made his PGA Tour debut as a 16-year old in 1992. Woods, however, did not count on what transpired on the next hole, the par-4 11th, when he hit he tee shot right and into one of the dozens of towering eucalyptist (gum) trees that line the fairways of Riviera. A large crowd had gathered around the tree that Woods ...

Hollywood sceen legend Mark Wahlberg lives a life the majority of us can only dream of. He’s the star of movies such Boogie Nights, The Perfect Storm, The Planet of the Apes, The Departed, Patriots Day and got to snuggle-up close to Charlize Theron in The Italian Job. He received a star on Hollywaood’s ‘Walk of Fame’ in July, 2010. Though you can be the greatest actor in the world, win multiple Academy Awards but you can also drive into the grounds of the famed Riviera Country Club in a Bentley ...