Swings and Ryder bouts: Golfing review of 2012
Gareme McDowell came close, Rory McIlroy won a major by eight strokes again and Team Europe rallied from face-down on the canvas.
Gareme McDowell came close, Rory McIlroy won a major by eight strokes again and Team Europe rallied from face-down on the canvas.
A new biography of the three-time Major winner sees Paul McGinley, Bob Torrance and Jean Van De Velde amongst those who provides their thoughts on the Dublin golfer.
Holywood man Rory McIlroy experienced a similar disappointment to Adam Scott’s Open collapse.
The gentleman of American golf held his nerve while Bernhard Langer went all Kiawah Island.
Neil Cullen watched the South African take an unlikely Claret Jug victory from the grandstand at Royal Lytham on Sunday evening.
Padraig Harrington has been a vocal critic of the extended club used by both Adam Scott and Ernie Els this week.
A five-over-par 75 yesterday saw G-Mac drop to a tie for fifth, five shots behind eventual winner Ernie Els of South Africa.
It seems that Carlito took his golfing holiday back in Argentina a little more seriously than we’d thought.
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Graeme McDowell, the 2010 US Open champion and runner-up at last month’s US Open, fired a 67 to stand second alongside Snedeker on 203.
Rory McIlroy won’t win his second Major this weekend. And Lee Westwood sure won’t win his first.
Rory McIlroy struggled to a 75 to stand on 142 with Belgian Nicolas Colsaerts, who fired a 77 after an opening 65, and Padraig Harrington, with bogeys on three of the last four holes to shoot 72.
The Northern Irish golfer is struggling to find the fairway while Padraig Harrington has moved into the red.
Tiger has kept the galleries rapt but Rory McIlroy is putting together a solid round to catch the championship leading Aussie.
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The Holywood star says his comments about not enjoying poor conditions were ‘pure frustration’ at last year’s Open and he’s ready to go this weekend.
Rovers facing an uphill struggle in Lithuania, doping at the Tour de France plus lots and lots of money for our favourite languid Swede.
Seve to Jacklin to Gary Player. There’s a lot of history around this old course.
Last year he trudged off saying: “I’d rather play when it’s 80 degrees and sunny and not much wind.”
The 43-year-old has since struggled for consistency since his Major win last summer. But the Irishman remains hopeful ahead of his title defence.
The Englishman is nursing groin and knee injuries, but he’s not one to complain.
After missing the cut at the weekend, the three-time Masters winner is heading for Scotland to get some links practice in.
The Northern Irish golfers were recognised for their services to golf in 2011 as both picked up their maiden Major wins.
First-time Major winner Darren Clarke created some of the biggest headlines in July but he certainly wasn’t the only talking point.
“There’s not many airs and graces about me,” said Darren Clarke after one of golf’s great moments yesterday.
In your Sunday Fix: A certain ginger-haired former media executive is arrested; the cost of smoking to Ireland’s economy; Come on Clarkey! and Hackgate: The Movie.
He showed the kids a thing or two at Royal St George’s.
In your Fix for today: A cheaper route to Dublin airport?; the end of the World; a remorseful Archbishop; how the Taoiseach is spending his weekend; and why Ken Doherty has an issue with neck ties.
Our team of boffins have been working their calculators into dust figuring this one out.
Keep in the loop with our minute-by-minute report that this leaderboard.
The Tour, the Open and Joe Canning. What else do you need?
The golf season’s third Major got underway in Kent this morning. Here’s everything you need to know about this year’s Open Championship.
From zero through to 900,000, we take a look at the numbers which define The Open.