Archive for the European Tour Category


Han hails Yang … but Asian Tour still seeking champion from within

Yang Young-eun’s victory at the US PGA Championship last week, when he defeated Tiger Woods in a head-to-head battle, is being hailed across Asia. Like any success, parties from all over are scrambling quickly to claim a portion of the credit. The Asian Tour has, naturally, and justifiably, raised its hand. Yang played on the […]

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Yang makes major breakthrough for Asia

Yang Yong-eun became the first Asian to win a major title when to stared down Tiger Woods to win the US PGA Championship at Hazeltine. The 37-year-old South Korean, who was 19 when he picked up golf clubs for the first time, survived a pressure-filled final round to deny Woods a 15th major crown. It […]

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Woods wins for seventh time at Bridgestone Invitational

Tiger Woods stared down the man who, briefly last year, was the toast of the majors, when he won the Bridgestone Invitational at Akron, Ohio. The world number one shot five-under-par 65 in the final round for a total of 268 and a four-stroke victory. Ireland’s Padraig Harrington, who won two majors last season while […]

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Golf: Going For Gold In 2016

Tiger Woods has just about done it all in the game of golf: 14 major championships, 69 career wins on tour, a record stay at world number one, NCAA, U.S Amateur and Junior titles, Fed-Ex, Ryder, and Presidents Cups. There’s not much else to conquer really. Over the weekend at the Buick Open Sir Nick […]

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Ahead Of The Class

Phil Mickelson did it on the PGA Tour. So did Scott Verplank. In recent years Pablo Martin and Danny Lee have done it in Europe. I’m taking, of course, about winning a professional tournament while still an amateur, something Oklahoma State’s Rickie Fowler came oh so close to doing Sunday at the Nationwide Tour’s Children’s Hospital […]

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Dubai finale prize money down 25 per cent, say media reports

The Race to Dubai is still on but without the bellows of record prize money that accompanied its launch last year. The European Tour, in its efforts to match the rival US PGA Tour in prize money and prestige, last year devised a revamped circuit, running through a calendar year and replacing the Order of […]

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Woods triumphs at Buick Open

Tiger Woods won the Buick Open but, careful … don’t mention the major. It was his fourth title of the season after coming back from eight months off to recuperate from knee surgery. Naturally, four PGA Tour titles after such a long lay-off is an amazing record – something any pro worth his endorsements would […]

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Seve targets 2010 Open return

It has been less than a year since Spanish legend Seve Ballesteros revealed to a shocked golfing world that he was suffering from a life-threatening brain tumour. The man who could devise spectacular escapes from almost anywhere on the golf course was facing the most difficult challenge of his life, with the stakes much higher. […]

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Green lifts Canada gloom with first PGA Tour title

The Canadian Open provided golf fans with gloomy weather, a record birdie barrage, delays, a play-off and, at the end of it all, an Australian winner. Nathan Green defeated South African Retief Goosen on the second play-off hole to capture his first US PGA Tour title. The 34-year-old closed with a four-under-par 68 to finish […]

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Casey leads Race to Dubai

It is well past the half-way stage of the inaugural Race to Dubai of the European Tour that eventually ends in a US$20 million grand finale called the Dubai World Championship. There was a lot of hype leading up to its launch last year as European Tour organisers looked to lift a flagging product with […]

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Cink prevails to win Open as Watson fades in play-off

It was the kind of ending that was heartbreaking for most of fans but one that doesn’t begrudge hard-working Stewart Cink. A Tom Watson victory would have been a great fairytale. But as these things happen in golf, eight feet of putting length is a long distance between glory and despair. For Watson, it was […]

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Woods misses cut at the Open

For the first time in his career, Tiger Woods’ final round at the British Open didn’t necessitate wearing the famous red shirt. One of Woods’ trademarks is the donning of red tops in the fourth round of a tournament. But Woods will not have to wait that long at Turnberry in Scotland because he has […]

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59 Year-Old Watson Leads At Turnberry

If for some some reason you have missed the first two days coverage of the British Open and are only now tuning in you could be forgiven for thinking the tournament is in a rain delay and the networks are showing coverage of the 1977 Open at Turnberry. As it stands, after two rounds the […]

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Top 10 Report Cards

In my (admittedly) lackluster academic career through high school and university I always hated mid-terms. The end of year pressure I could deal with. I expected it. It was supposed to be there. It was the mid-year exams, those that seemed to creep up without warning right as you were getting comfortable that I hated. […]

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Woods on weather alert for Turnberry Open

Tiger Woods has been checking the weather forecasts for Turnberry in Scotland as he prepares for his first British Open tournament since 2007. The world number one, who missed last year’s event because of injury, said the unpredictable British weather is what makes the Open so special, forcing players to re-draft their game-plans even at […]

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