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Dublin, Ohio …. Russell Knox admitted he would not have believed you after a horror start to his round in taking a treble bogey “7” he would walk off inside the top-30 with a round of 71 on day one of the Jack Nicklaus hosted Memorial here in Dublin, Ohio. Scotland’s leading golfer, clearly struggling with a mystery virus he contracted earlier in the week, blocked his first shot way right off the par four 10th hole he was tackling as his first, and with his ball cannoning off ...

Dublin, Ohio … Martin Laird brilliantly grabbed two eagles with the space five holes to shoot a 71 on day one of the Jack Nicklaus hosted Memorial in Dublin, Ohio. Laird had been two over–par after just four holes in the bright but windy conditions before landing his 5–wood 242–yard second shot at the 11th hole to four–feet and holed the first eagle putt in the Muirfield Village course. Then after a birdie at the 14th, Laird then reached the green with his 230–yard ...

Dublin, Ohio … Fellow Open Champion Jack Nicklaus has paid special tribute to the late Roberto de Vicenzo, who passed away Thursday aged 94. The Argentina Golf Association confirmed his passing on its website and indicating de Vicenzo had broke his hip last month at his home in suburban Buenos Aires, and his health had been deteriorating ever since. The Argentinean-born de Vicenzo, who was the oldest-living Open Champion, defeated Nicklaus by two strokes in 1967 at Royal Liverpool. At the ...

Argentinean golfing great Roberto De Vicenzo winner 1967 Open very sadly passes away aged 94 years. De Vicenzo, who was the oldest living Open champion, died at this home in Ranelagh after a long illness. Di Vicenzo was born in Villa Ballester, a northern suburb of Buenos Aires province, Argentina. He was raised in the Villa Pueyrredón neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, and acquired the game of golf as a caddie. He developed his skills at the Ranelagh Golf Club, and later relocated to the ...

Dublin, Ohio … Struggling Russell Knox is confident of overcoming a mystery virus and being fit to take his place in today’s commencing Memorial in Dublin, Ohio. Knox returned to the States after contesting last week’s BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth but having contracted the “bug” from his wife, Andrea. “Andrea has been really sick for about three weeks and I think I have managed to contract part of it, as well,” he said after contesting Wednesday’s Pro-Am in the Jack Nicklaus-hosted ...

  Dublin, Ohio … Greg Norman revealed his lives less than a mile from Tiger Woods residence on exclusive Jupiter Island in Florida. However in all that time Norman says he has never met Woods and remarkably in the many occasions they have been at a Tour event or involved in a Presidents Cup has never spoken more than 20 words to the 18 times Majors champion. But then the double Open winning Norman is no different to everyone else who has been asked to comment on the events of last Monday ...

Dublin, Ohio … Former double Major winning says his Memorial Tournament Induction is the next honour in his career after carrying the 2000 Olympic Games torch across the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Norman became only the second Australian-born golfer since Peter Thomson in 1998 to be honoured with the award at Muirfield Village, and where the Queenslander won twice in his PGA Tour career. “I’d actually put it up in the top two”, when asked by Bernie here at www.golfbytourmiss.com “I ...