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Woods Impressive Return – Four Under For 9-Holes In First Official Hero Practice Round (Scorecard)

Albany, Bahamas …. Tiger Woods made a very impressive return to competitive golf shooting a comfortable four-under par score over nine holes of official practice ahead of this week’s 2017 Hero World Challenge. Woods teed-off just prior to 9.30am local time in the company of fellow American Patrick Reed. Woods grabbed the honour of teeing-off first and immediately split the fairway with a booming drive with Reed landing his ball some 30-yards short of Woods. Woods proceeded to land his ...

Tiger Woods Insists His Two Children Helped Keep Him Sane For 10 Months.

Tiger Woods returns to competition this week insisting having his two young children around him kept the former long-time World No. 1 ‘sane’ over this past 10 months. Woods played a first official practice round mid-morning Monday local time revealing also the extent of his pain so much so there were times all he could do was roll over in bed in order to urinate into a bucket. Woods last competed ahead of withdrawing from the second round of the Dubai Desert Classic before undergoing a fourth ...

Tiger & Great White Shark Competing 20 Klms Apart In The Bahamas.

Golf’s longest World No. 1 Tiger Woods and the game’s second-longest running top-ranked Greg Norman will be competing just 20-klms apart this week in the Bahamas. Woods makes his long-awaited return to competition for a first time in 10 months after undergoing a fourth operation in April of a long-running back injury. Woods is hosting the Hero World Challenge while Australian great Greg Norman heads the field contesting the 2017 Necker Open. It is the third occasion Woods event is being ...

Woods Admits ‘Remarkable’ No Pain In Lower Back.

Tiger Woods returns to golf this week in what will clearly be the most-watched round of golf all season. Not since Woods teed-up earlier this year at the Farmers Insurance Open and then travelled onto to Dubai has there been so much interest in how the former long-time World No. 1 will perform. Since withdrawing ahead of the second round of the Dubai Desert Classic Woods underwent in April  a fourth operation on his much-troubled back. Back after nearly 10-months on the sidelines Woods will tee-up ...

Woods Set To Jump 250 World Ranking Spots Just Teeing-Up In Hero World Challenge.

How is this for a World Ranking statistic. Tiger Woods will jump 250 places on the ranking by just by teeing-up in this week’s Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas. Woods heads into the elite no-cut event ranked 1,199th in the World Rankings and given the strength of the field teeing-up at Albany that is the prediction given the long-time World No. 1 has contested just three tournaments in the last two years and those being last year’s Hero World Challenge and two events earlier this year ...

Dunne Jets Into Dublin Keen To Recharge Batteries.

Paul Dunne jets back into Dublin Monday morning local time looking forward to a well-earned competition break and recharging the golfing batteries ahead of the 2018 season. Dunne celebrated Sunday’s 25th birthday with a disappointing closing round 72 to share 41st place in the UBS Hong Kong Open. It was the very first event of the 2018 European Tour schedule but the last tournament for Dunne in a 2017 season capped by his brilliant British Masters triumph. The Wicklow golfer, however, spoilt ...

Ormsby Joins Aussie Greats Thomson, Nagle & Norman Winning Hong Kong Open.

Wade Ormsby has joined the greats of Australian golf including Peter Thomson, the late Kel Nagle and Greg Norman to capture a maiden European Tour title with a nerve-wracking UBS Hong Kong Open victory. The 37-year old Adelaide-born Ormsby bogeyed the last but it was good enough in a round of a two-under par 68 for a one shot success at 11-under par and to also achieve the win in front of recently-crowned European No. 1 and playing partner, Tommy Fleetwood who posted a last day 69 to share sixth ...