After some toing and froing the manager agreed to give me a straight swap ( right decision) and after 5 days in techie rehab I am here tonight on my new 17" Acer so fingers crossed...
Sorry I missed you all for the Irish Open, what a finale and what a week of weather. If you haven't been to play in Scotland or Ireland your golfing career is NOT complete.. This past week at Royal County Downs had it all. Wind, rain, sun, calm, mountains, sea, seaside air, and oh did I mention golf played the way it should, as mother nature demands..Creative, frustrating, full of hogs and hollows, the champion Soren Kjeldson from Denmark shot 76 and still won it all..
Did you hear about Adam Scott ?? Hasn't played worth a damn this year and has three majors up and coming.. He says he has persuaded Stevie Williams to join him for the U.S. Open, British Open, Bridgestone Invitational and PGA Championship Scott tied for fourth at Doral and has been struggling since. He has missed two cuts and has not finished better than a tie for 24th. That was at the Colonial, and he then fired caddie Mike Kerr.
Scott says he had to talk Williams out of retirement for the next three months. They last worked together at the Tour Championship last year. Williams has been on the bag for 14 majors – 13 of them with Tiger Woods and the 2013 Masters with Scott.
Another Aussie, Steven Bowditch rode his best birdie binge on the PGA Tour to a 5-under 64 and a four-shot victory Sunday in the Nelson, making him two-for-Texas in career titles after winning the Texas Open in San Antonio last year.
A Dallas-area resident for 10 years, Bowditch had 27 birdies while becoming the seventh player to lead all four rounds of the event. Playing next to the resort hotel where he got married four years ago, the 31-year-old Bowditch finished at 18-under 259 on the rain-altered TPC Four Seasons layout.
Bowditch at one time battled depression and tried to commit suicide at his Dallas home in 2006. despite displaying a blinding talent for the game as a youngster in Australia..
Canada’s Graham DeLaet tied for 22nd at 8 under after a 67.
Meanwhile the LPGA women were on the Jersey shore where Anna Nordqvist gave her visiting mother the perfect gift Sunday, which also happened to be Mother’s Day in Sweden.
The 27-year-old Nordqvist birdied the 16th and 17th holes to break out of the pack and win the ShopRite LPGA Classic by a stroke. She closed with a 2-under 69 in windy conditions to finish at 8-under 205 at Stockton Seaview’s Bay Course.
Christel Boeljon, was a career-best second after a 68. Morgan Pressel, who fell out of the lead following a bogey-double bogey stretch on the front nine, tied for third at 5 under after a 73. Rookie Kelly Shon got within one stroke of the lead, but a tough finish dropped her to a 70 and a tie with Pressel.
Canada’s Brooke Henderson tied for 23rd at 1 under after a final round 67. Alena Sharp finished 2 over after a final round 72. The Hamilton, Ont., native tied for 51st.
Speaking of Brooke, the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) and Golf Canada have announced the four athletes who have been nominated to represent Canada at the TORONTO 2015 Pan American Games from July 10 to 26.
On the women’s side, 17-year-old former world number one amateur Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont. has accepted selection to the Pan Am golf team and will be joined by four-time LPGA Tour winner Lorie Kane of Charlottetown.
The men’s team will be comprised of 18-year-old Austin Connelly who resides in, Irving Texas, currently the 10th ranked player on the World Amateur Golf Rankings along with reigning Canadian Men’s Mid-Amateur champion Garrett Rank of Elmira, Ont.
Bryan
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