Now that the golf seasons are officially over following last week's Dubai World Championship, there are still several invitational events for the top players to make even more dough !!
The Nedbank Golf Challenge in Sun City, South Africa celebrating it's 30th year used to be the richest event in the world when it became the 1st to pay a million US to the winner. 12 players are invited and now the winner gets $1.25m playing at the Gary Player CC. You get $250,000 just for being last !!
They have already finished round 2 and Lee Westwood has overtaken Paddy Harrington with a-8 64 and a -12 total.
He had 8 birdies and no bogey's and he leads Ross Fisher, who ended with -4 68 and a -9 total
Edoardo Molinari 67, Miguel Angel Jiménez 70 and Padraig Harrington 72 are at - 6
Ernie Els is at -5 after his 68, Tim Clark's 67 is at -4, as is Robert Allenby 70, who won this last year
Retief Goosen 70, Anders Hansen 70 and Justin Rose 72 are all at -2 Open Champion Louis Oosthuizen 73 is last at E
1 Westwood -12
2 Fisher -9
T3 Harrington -6
T3 Jimenez -6
T3 Molinari -6
6 Els -5
T7 Allenby -4
T7 Clark -4
T9 Goosen -2
T9 Hansen -2
T9 Rose -2
12 Oosthuizen E
Out in California Tiger has invited 17 buddies to play in his Chevron World Challenge at the Thousand Oaks course. He's won it himself 4 times.
He shot -7 65 to take the first round lead ahead of Northern Irish pair Rory McIlroy 66 and Graeme McDowell 66 and he hasn't done that since he was shacked up with his girlfriend at the 2009 Australian Masters.
Dustin Johnson 69 and Stewart Cink 69 tied for fourth place at -3, ahead of Luke Donald 70 and Camilo Villegas 70 who are at -2
6 players including European Tour Player of November Ian Poulter are 8th at E, 72
Please forgive me but after a wonderful month on the Golf Channel when the Euro Tour broadcast crew were in charge of their last month's swing through the far east then ultimately to Dubai, where we didn't have every single moment focused on Tiger, I am afraid we are back in the hands of Kelly Tilghman and Brandle Chamblee who were at their gushing best yesterday about their man's 65, they do become almost apoplectic when he plays a good shot, and while this probably was his most complete round of this lost season, let's not forget that this is an 18 man field, playing an exhibition, albeit a very lucrative exhibition.
So puleeze you 2, stop with the Tiger returning to the world number 1 spot talk
1 -- Tiger Woods -7 F -7 65 -- -- -- 65
T2 -- Rory McIlroy -6 F -6 66 -- -- -- 66
T2 -- Graeme McDowell -6 F -6 66 -- -- -- 66
T4 -- Dustin Johnson -3 F -3 69 -- -- -- 69
T4 -- Stewart Cink -3 F -3 69 -- -- -- 69
T6 -- Luke Donald -2 F -2 70 -- -- -- 70
T6 -- Camilo Villegas -2 F -2 70 -- -- -- 70
T8 -- Ian Poulter E F E 72 -- -- -- 72
T8 -- Hunter Mahan E F E 72 -- -- -- 72
T8 -- Sean O'Hair E F E 72 -- -- -- 72
T8 -- Steve Stricker E F E 72 -- -- -- 72
T8 -- Jim Furyk E F E 72 -- -- -- 72
T8 -- Nick Watney E F E 72 -- -- -- 72
14 -- Paul Casey 1 F 1 73 -- -- -- 73
T15 -- Matt Kuchar 3 F 3 75 -- -- -- 75
T15 -- Zach Johnson 3 F 3 75 -- -- -- 75
17 -- Bubba Watson 4 F 4 76 -- -- -- 76
18 -- Anthony Kim 7 F 7 79 -- -- -- 79
LPGA Tour
Amy Yang -5 67 and Seon Hwa Lee -5 67 are your leaders in Orlando, with a third of the field out early this morning to complete their 1st round.
Round 2 is now underway and here is how our 6 Canucks stand.
T22 Samantha Richdale +2 74 , T22 Jessica Shepley +2 74, T31 Lisa Meldrum +3 75, T45 Alena Sharp +4 76, T65 Lori Kane +6 78, T88 Adrienne White + 5 77 (add +3 today's round)
Australian Open
It's summer in Australia and the Australasian Tour is in full swing as they play their Australian Open. I didn't see any of it so I will post this AP report for you.. John Daly and Fred Couples were in the field til they MC along with Dudley Hart who is T4 !! Most of the top Aussies are present and accounted for...
SYDNEY (AP) -- Geoff Ogilvy shot a 7-under 65 at The Lakes course to take a one-stroke lead after two rounds at the Australian Open on Friday.
Ogilvy, the 2006 U.S. Open champion, had a 36-hole total of 11-under 133.
Australian Matt Jones shot 64 to sit one stroke back of Ogilvy, with first-round leader Matthew Griffin, also from Australia, another stroke back after a 70.
American Dudley Hart, making his first tournament start in 18 months following back surgery, shot 69 and was tied for fourth with Australians John Senden (71) and Paul Sheehan (67).
Greg Norman and Fred Couples, the Presidents Cup captains for next year at Royal Melbourne, had contrasting results. Norman, the International team captain, made the two-round cut of 1-over 145 after shooting a 69 and was at 143.
Couples, the U.S. team captain, shot 74 Friday and missed the cut by one stroke. He was joined by John Daly, who also was at 146 after a 77.
Ogilvy won the PGA TOUR's season-opening event in Hawaii before having a difficult year and falling to 43rd in the world rankings.
"You're lying if you said you're not thinking about winning, but it's way in the back of your mind," Ogilvy said. "The closer you get to the end the more you start thinking about it, but after 36 holes it's not going to monopolize my thoughts."
Playing partner Adam Scott also took advantage of some easy morning conditions -- not much wind and slow, soft greens due to recent rain -- to shoot 66. Scott, the defending champion, shot 75 Thursday.
While past Australian Opens have been plagued by delays due to unplayable, fast greens caused by wind and grown-out rough on the fairways, Scott said The Lakes was playing easy.
"They are certainly being cautious, which might be the smart thing to do (but) it is taking a little of the fire, a little of the challenge out of the golf course by having them (the greens) that slow," he said.
"More balls are staying on the greens than rolling off. Some of the extreme long putts across the breaks are a little easier because the greens are slower."
The course is hosting its first big tournament since a makeover by designer and former Australian pro Mike Clayton, and the greens have not yet fully grown in.
"This week, for whatever reasons -- the rain and also fear of the wind -- they might not have them fast enough for the course to bare its teeth," Scott said.
Later an update on Round 3 at Q school
Bryan Angus bryanangus4@gmail.com
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