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Wade Ormsby finds himself just one round shy of a break-through European Tour victory heading to the final round of the co-sanctioned Fiji International. Adelaide’s favourite golfing son was in sizzling form on day three taking ‘Route 66’ in snatching seven birdies in ten holes from the eighth to the 17th and move to 10-under par on the stunning Natadola Bay GC, at Natadola in Fiji. Ormsby’s cause was also helped when 29-year old fellow Aussie Jason Norris walked off ...

Greensboro, NC … Shane Lowry and former Irish Open winner, Soren Kjeldsen are literally ‘feeding’ off each other. The duo and their respective caddies are sharing a house for this week’s Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina. And between them they are a combined 17-under par through two rounds of the $US 5.8m event. After opening on Thursday with a three under 67, Lowry donned the cook’s apron on Thursday in preparing a meal of sushi for waiting for Kjeldsen and his caddy ...

Greensboro, NC …  Geoff Ogilvy epitomises the expression – When the going gets tough, the tough get going! Ogilvy arrived in Greensboro for this week’s Wyndham Championship, and how the Americans love to say, right on the bubble for next week’s start to the FedEx Cup Play-Off Series. The 2006 U.S. Open champion is lying 125th on the points list and right on the cut-off point for those who will tee-up in the Northern Trust on Long Island. And the now 40-year old Ogilvy was not excited ...

Greensboro, NC … Martin Laird is assured of qualifying for next week’s start to the lucrative FedEx Cup Play-Off Series despite withdrawing before the start to his second round in the Wyndham Championship. Laird ended Thursday’s round very well placed at four under-par and sharing 18th place with fellow Scot Russell Knox. A PGA Tour official indicated Laird cited ‘family reasons’ in withdrawing fro the $US 5.8m event and returning to his Charlotte residence. Laird teed-up in Greensboro ...

Greensboro, NC … Former Open Champion Henrik Stenson continued to battle stifling conditions and muscle his way to a two-shot clubhouse lead on day two of the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina. Stenson, who is looking for a first victory on U.S. soil in four years, added a 66 to his sizzling first round eight-under 62 to advance to 12-under in the near century-like heat on the Sedgefield course. The 41-year old Swede, and leaving his Callaway driver in his locker for a second ...

Greensborn, NC … Shane Lowry and Seamus Power refused to wilt in near meltdown conditions posting four under 67s on the opening day of the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina. Lowry was one-over through five holes but completed his closing 13 in four-under including three birdies in a four-hole stretch from his 11thon the Sedgefield Country Club course. Power, and teeing-up in Greensboro for a first occasion, birdied his. first three holes and then ‘thinned’ a wedge at the ...

Greensboro, NC … Padraig Harrington posted his equal-lowest round of a injury-interrupted season in shooting a four-under par 66 on day one of the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina. The effort, in stiffling hot and humid conditions. is Harrington’s best round since a similar 66 on the opening day of the recent Travelers Championship in Connecticut. It left the Dubliner sharing the leading Irish honors and trailing five shots behind American Matt Every who signed for a ...