New Year's Eve is for amateur's and if you are one of them please don't be throwing up on your neighbours rug at 1 in the morning.... You will have to face them later in the day !!
From the Angus family point of view, we are pretty glad to see the back of 2012 with health concerns, and job uncertainty at times, but there were many bright moments as well and we are heading into the new year with momentum..
As I said in my year in review it was another dramatic, exciting season, and just to warm your hearts here is my highlight of the year
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRnFdoaPEyY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXmBXiBfwSo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPouI_SVbgM
All the best to you all
Bryan
Monday, December 31, 2012
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Merry Christmas!!.. 2012 my Year in Review
Christmas Day has finally arrived, and I wish all of you a really nice day, the rushing around, frayed tempers, stress have all gone.. today will decide if it was worth it !!
Well Rory was the Story this year, but as always there was so much more, For me it was great for the game this year to see that Sean Foley finally has Tiger back as a serious contender, and the Ryder Cup finale on the last day of September at Medinah starting with Rory damn near missing his tee time right through to Martin Kaymer's pressure packed 10 footer to complete the most memorable comeback ever will never be topped.... or will it..
For my complete Year in Review click www.nextsportstar.com
In a couple of weeks last year's winners on the PGA tour will take their families out to Hawaii for the season opener as they ease into 2013 and we'll start all over again
Brad Fritsch joins our Canadian contingent, and we will see how the likes of Rebecca Lee-Bentham, Stephanie Sherlock and Alena Sharp do on the LPGA tour...
As always your comments are welcomed and don't forget you can watch me every morning from 7-9 on the Breakfast Club at www.nextsportstar.com and listen every Sunday morning between 8-10 on TSN1050radio on the International Sports Report.
Bryan Angus
twitter@mummmbles
www.isr1050.com
www.nextsportstar.com
twitter@nextsportstar
Well Rory was the Story this year, but as always there was so much more, For me it was great for the game this year to see that Sean Foley finally has Tiger back as a serious contender, and the Ryder Cup finale on the last day of September at Medinah starting with Rory damn near missing his tee time right through to Martin Kaymer's pressure packed 10 footer to complete the most memorable comeback ever will never be topped.... or will it..
For my complete Year in Review click www.nextsportstar.com
In a couple of weeks last year's winners on the PGA tour will take their families out to Hawaii for the season opener as they ease into 2013 and we'll start all over again
Brad Fritsch joins our Canadian contingent, and we will see how the likes of Rebecca Lee-Bentham, Stephanie Sherlock and Alena Sharp do on the LPGA tour...
As always your comments are welcomed and don't forget you can watch me every morning from 7-9 on the Breakfast Club at www.nextsportstar.com and listen every Sunday morning between 8-10 on TSN1050radio on the International Sports Report.
Bryan Angus
twitter@mummmbles
www.isr1050.com
www.nextsportstar.com
twitter@nextsportstar
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
No surprise.. Rory wins European Tour Player of the Year
The 23 year old Northern Irishman succeeds Luke Donald as winner of the coveted award, having also replicated the Englishman’s previously unprecedented achievement of winning both The Race to Dubai and the US PGA Tour Money List in the same season.
In August, McIlroy captured his second Major Championship, claiming the US PGA Championship at Kiawah Island by eight strokes and in doing so set a new record for the largest winning margin in the Championship, beating the seven stroke triumph of Jack Nicklaus at Oak Hill in 1980. It also matched the winning margin he achieved during his maiden Major triumph in the 2011 US Open Championship at Congressional.
He also won three times on the US PGA Tour – in The Honda Classic, the Deutsche Bank Championship and the BMW Championship – and played a vital role in Europe’s victorious Ryder Cup winning team, before ending a magnificent personal year by winning The European Tour’s season finalé, The DP World Tour Championship, Dubai, in style, birdieing the final five holes on the Earth course to triumph by two strokes.
That fifth title worldwide in 2012 also meant McIlroy finished The European Tour season with record earnings of €5,519,118, beating the previous mark of €5,323,400 set by Donald last year, as he became the youngest player to win the Harry Vardon Trophy since Scotland’s Sandy Lyle in 1980 and the fourth youngest in total behind Seve Ballesteros, Dale Hayes and Lyle.
McIlroy can now add The Race to Dubai European Tour Golfer of the Year award to his list of accomplishments in 2012, which includes winning the Golf Writers’ Trophy on this side of the Atlantic as well as the PGA Tour Player of the Year honours in the United States.
The judging panel, which featured golf journalists from newspapers and magazines as well as commentators from radio and television, also reserved praise for several other worthy candidates, specifically Englishman Ian Poulter, who won four points out of four in Europe’s Ryder Cup victory as well as claiming his second World Golf Championship title in China in November, and South African Branden Grace, who won four times on The European Tour in 2012 after securing his card at Qualifying School the previous November.
But McIlroy, who was announced as the winner at the annual Golfer of the Year Luncheon at the Lancaster Hotel in London, received the unanimous vote from the panel to become only the second Northern Irishman, following his friend Graeme McDowell (who shared the award with Germany’s Martin Kaymer in 2010), to receive the accolade
europeantour.com
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Rookie Popovic wins Aussie PGA, Schwartzel laps the field at the Dunhill
COOLUM, Australia -- Australasian Tour rookie Daniel Popovic completed an improbable wire-to-wire victory in the Australian PGA, shooting a 3-under 69 earlier this morning for a four-stroke victory.
Popovic finished at 16-under 272 at the Palmer Coolum resort. The Australian opened with rounds of 64, 70 and 69.
Rod Pampling birdied the first six holes to take the lead after nine holes, but dropped four strokes on the final three holes -- making bogeys on 16 and 17 and a double bogey on 18 -- to fall into a tie for second with fellow Australian Anthony Brown. Pampling had a 69, and Brown shot 71.
Popovic nearly quit golf earlier this year to care for his seriously ill father.
Pampling looked set for his first win since the Australian Masters in 2008. He has two wins on the U.S. PGA Tour, the last in 2006 at the Bay Hill Invitational. This year, he finished just outside the top 125, 127th place to lose his PGA tour card, then failed at qualifying school two weeks ago, meaning he will have only conditional status next year in the U.S.
Errant tee shots on 16 and 17 led to bogeys, then his approach on 18 went into the water.
Geoff Ogilvy, trying to be among the top three here to ensure he'd finish inside the top 50 in year-end world ranking and earn a spot in the U.S. Masters next year. But shot 69 a Sunday and tied for fourth, a stroke short.
Meanwhile is South Africa. http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2013/tournamentid=2012096/leaderboard/index.html?showLeaderboard=Y
MALELANE, South Africa -- Charl Schwartzel won by a huge margin for the second week running as the South African coasted to a comprehensive 12 shot victory in the Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek.
A winner by 11 shots in Thailand last Sunday, the talk at the start of the day was not whether the 28 year old would win an eighth European Tour title, but if he could better Tiger Woods’ 15-shot winning margin at the 2000 US Open Championship in doing so. That remains the largest in European Tour history.
A third straight 64 would have seen last year’s Masters Tournament champion equal Ernie Els’ record 29 under par total, but as it was Schwartzel settled for a three under par 69 and 24 under total on a final day disrupted by thunderstorms.
Schwartzel's return to full fitness and form has become clear after he struggled for much of 2012 with a torn chest muscle.
In his last five tournaments, he has finished fifth at the South African Open, tied for third at the season-ending World Tour Championship in Dubai, second at the Nedbank Golf Challenge, won in Thailand, now wins again here. He collected the Alfred Dunhill title in 2004 for his first career win on the European Tour
BryanA ( stories from CP and AP)
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Tom Watson named 2014 US Ryder Cup captain
Tom Watson has been named United States Ryder Cup captain to be held at Gleneagles in 2014.
Arguably the greatest Open champion of the past 100 years he will captain the team for the second time.
Three weeks after his 65th birthday he is the oldest American captain of all time, he is a good decade older than any captain of either side for more than 40 years
His age will raise questions as he plays a very limited schedule and almost exclusively on the Champions Tour so is not in touch with his players week-in, week-out.
It is a reasonable question, it's been 13 seasons since Tom played the PGA Tour regularly.
However I think it's an inspired choice, certainly over another quiet diminutive choice like David Toms, or Corey Pavin.. Europe has certainly had more flambouyant captains in Seve, Monty and now Darren Clarke.
In four Ryder Cups as a player and one as a captain, Watson has never been on a losing side. Given that losing has become a habit for the US, with seven defeats in the past nine matches, that winning mentality he has always possessed can only be for the good. As a Scot I cann assure you Tom Watson is a legend in Scotland where he won all 5 of his Opens. BryanA
Arguably the greatest Open champion of the past 100 years he will captain the team for the second time.
Three weeks after his 65th birthday he is the oldest American captain of all time, he is a good decade older than any captain of either side for more than 40 years
His age will raise questions as he plays a very limited schedule and almost exclusively on the Champions Tour so is not in touch with his players week-in, week-out.
It is a reasonable question, it's been 13 seasons since Tom played the PGA Tour regularly.
However I think it's an inspired choice, certainly over another quiet diminutive choice like David Toms, or Corey Pavin.. Europe has certainly had more flambouyant captains in Seve, Monty and now Darren Clarke.
In four Ryder Cups as a player and one as a captain, Watson has never been on a losing side. Given that losing has become a habit for the US, with seven defeats in the past nine matches, that winning mentality he has always possessed can only be for the good. As a Scot I cann assure you Tom Watson is a legend in Scotland where he won all 5 of his Opens. BryanA
Friday, December 7, 2012
Perry/O'Hair win the Shark Shootout..Peter Senior wins Aussie Open
PGA Tour
Live scoring link click here http://leaderboard.franklintempletonshootout.com/
Round 3 wrap
pgatour.com Kenny Perry and Sean O'Hair birdied five of the last six holes to win the Franklin Templeton Shootout
The 52-year-old Perry became the oldest player to win the Shootout, and also won for the third time with a different partner. He won with John Huston in 2005 and Scott Hoch in 2008. Perry joins Steve Elkington, Fred Couples, Brad Faxon and Scott McCarron with three Shootout wins; Elkington and Couples also won with three different partners
Rory Sabbatini and Charles Howell III made a charge on the back nine that included an eagle on a par 4 but finished one stroke back at 30-under 186. They had a 15-under 57 in the scramble format in the final round on the Gold Course at Tiburón Golf Club
Australian Open
Live scoring link click here http://www.pga.org.au/scores/1134
Round 4 wrap
At 53, Peter Senior has become the oldest winner in Australian Open history after surviving gale-force wins on a brutal final day to beat Brendan Jones by one shot in fading light at The Lakes.
On a dramatic Sunday that saw play suspended for three hours after 80km/h winds made the course unplayable, the ultra-consistent Senior carded an even-par 72 to finish at four under for the championship. Only 6 players broke par.
It was an impressive performance from Jones (71), who pushed Senior to the limit with two back-nine birdies and an eagle to card the only sub-par round of the final 17 pairings on Sunday.
Cameron Percy (73) finished in outright third at minus two, one clear of Kim Felton (72), Kieran Pratt (75) and Rose (76)
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It was a miserable day for the world No.4 who made six bogeys and failed to post a single birdie in the final pairing
Ladies European Tour
Live scoring link click here http://www.letscoring.com/leaderboard/56834Live scoring link click here http://leaderboard.franklintempletonshootout.com/
Round 3 wrap
pgatour.com Kenny Perry and Sean O'Hair birdied five of the last six holes to win the Franklin Templeton Shootout
The 52-year-old Perry became the oldest player to win the Shootout, and also won for the third time with a different partner. He won with John Huston in 2005 and Scott Hoch in 2008. Perry joins Steve Elkington, Fred Couples, Brad Faxon and Scott McCarron with three Shootout wins; Elkington and Couples also won with three different partners
Rory Sabbatini and Charles Howell III made a charge on the back nine that included an eagle on a par 4 but finished one stroke back at 30-under 186. They had a 15-under 57 in the scramble format in the final round on the Gold Course at Tiburón Golf Club
Australian Open
Live scoring link click here http://www.pga.org.au/scores/1134
Round 4 wrap
At 53, Peter Senior has become the oldest winner in Australian Open history after surviving gale-force wins on a brutal final day to beat Brendan Jones by one shot in fading light at The Lakes.
On a dramatic Sunday that saw play suspended for three hours after 80km/h winds made the course unplayable, the ultra-consistent Senior carded an even-par 72 to finish at four under for the championship. Only 6 players broke par.
It was an impressive performance from Jones (71), who pushed Senior to the limit with two back-nine birdies and an eagle to card the only sub-par round of the final 17 pairings on Sunday.
Cameron Percy (73) finished in outright third at minus two, one clear of Kim Felton (72), Kieran Pratt (75) and Rose (76)
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It was a miserable day for the world No.4 who made six bogeys and failed to post a single birdie in the final pairing
Ladies European Tour
Final Wrap
World No.6 Shanshan Feng took a commanding five shot lead into the final round of the Omega Dubai Ladies Masters, starting the day at 18 under par.
The 23-year-old from Guangzhou was still on course for a record win as she made the turn during the final round. Feng moved to 20 under par after an eagle at the par-5 third hole. She bogeyed the fifth but birdied the eighth and was two under for the front nine to remain at 20 under par.
She has just walked off the 18th green, and has won the Omega Dubai Masters by the same 5 shots she started the day with after a -3 68 -21 total.
Dutch star Dewi Claire Schreefel 69 was 2nd at -16 and Canada's Lorie Kane 71 T5 at -11
Files from the Ladies European Tour were used in this report
ASIAN Tour
Click here for live scoring http://www.asiantour.com/livescoring.html
Round 4 wrap
An irrepressible Charl Schwartzel of South Africa has just shot his 3rd round of 65, to get to -25 and win the US$1 million Thailand Golf Championship by a whopping 11 shots .For Schwartzel it was his first title in 20 months after winning the 2011 Masters Tournament..
Bubba Watson earned some of his huge appearance fee, closing with 65 to T2 at -14. Ryder Cup star Sergio Garcia was 4th
Friday, November 30, 2012
" Anchors away me boys"....and girls..
'Throughout the 600-year history of golf, the essence of playing the game has been to grip the club with the hands and swing it freely at the ball,' USGA Executive Director Mike Davis said. 'The player’s challenge is to control the movement of the entire club in striking the ball, and anchoring the club alters the nature of that challenge
So with that the R&A and the USGA gave decided to ban the anchoring that is inherent in using the long or belly putter. This I agree with although there are several things about the announcement that has the golf world buzzing that raises my ire.
* First of all it was the same governing bodies that allowed players to anchor back in 1989 that has led to yesterday's ruling.. Talk about hoisting yourself by your own petard..
* Next, the ban doesn't take place until 2016. I realize these suits change rules in 4 year cycles, but come on, if it is so bad, it starts on January 1, 2013..
* On the PGA tour this year 39 winners had regulation putters, 6 anchored. This ruling will lessen the enjoyment of golfing for millions of recreation golfers who might even be using them for health reasons (bad backs etc) for the sake of a very few pros.
I have always argued that anchoring simply is wrong. It is against the fundamental principle that to putt well, you have to be able to control your nerves, and for those who can't it shows up in their hands. Anchoring removes that problem, especially when you combine it with the claw grip, thus completely removing the hands.
As for we duffers, we break the rules of golf every time we play, foot wedges, 6 foot gimme's, tip ups, mulligans, you know them all don't you. So while I agree we all should be bound by one set of rules I am sure we will continue to see those ugly big sticks in golf bags long beyond 2016..
It may be "Anchors Away" for the pros and top amateurs, but along with the foot wedge and all the rest, I feel we weekend warriors will be humming the same old song..
Bryan Angus
twitter@mummmbles
www.isr1050.com
www.nextsportstar.com
So with that the R&A and the USGA gave decided to ban the anchoring that is inherent in using the long or belly putter. This I agree with although there are several things about the announcement that has the golf world buzzing that raises my ire.
* First of all it was the same governing bodies that allowed players to anchor back in 1989 that has led to yesterday's ruling.. Talk about hoisting yourself by your own petard..
* Next, the ban doesn't take place until 2016. I realize these suits change rules in 4 year cycles, but come on, if it is so bad, it starts on January 1, 2013..
* On the PGA tour this year 39 winners had regulation putters, 6 anchored. This ruling will lessen the enjoyment of golfing for millions of recreation golfers who might even be using them for health reasons (bad backs etc) for the sake of a very few pros.
I have always argued that anchoring simply is wrong. It is against the fundamental principle that to putt well, you have to be able to control your nerves, and for those who can't it shows up in their hands. Anchoring removes that problem, especially when you combine it with the claw grip, thus completely removing the hands.
As for we duffers, we break the rules of golf every time we play, foot wedges, 6 foot gimme's, tip ups, mulligans, you know them all don't you. So while I agree we all should be bound by one set of rules I am sure we will continue to see those ugly big sticks in golf bags long beyond 2016..
It may be "Anchors Away" for the pros and top amateurs, but along with the foot wedge and all the rest, I feel we weekend warriors will be humming the same old song..
Bryan Angus
twitter@mummmbles
www.isr1050.com
www.nextsportstar.com
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Fritsch finishes T7, Hadwin 32nd at Q School..Live scoring links including all Canucks
This is the last year for Q school as we know it. There are 172 entrants for the men and only the top 25 will get their cards. It's a total stroke play event over 6 gruelling rounds at PGA West in California
Next year the players who finish 126-200 on the PGA Tour and the top 75 from the Web.com Tour will play 3 tournaments and the top 50 will get their cards. There will be a Q school but only for the Web.Com Tour.
I feel that's a shame because as many of you will know, Q school is full of thrills and spills and there aren't any tournaments all year with more tension.
PGA Tour
6th round wrap
Seven Canadians have made it to the final stage this year. Mitch Evanecz T140 74 69,73 70 75 +1
Brad Fritsch, T7 72 67,66 71,66 68 -22 Adam Hadwin,T32 74 71,68 68 68 68 -15 Matt Hill,T118, 74 65,73 70,72 74 -4 Richard Scott,T114 73 70,73 68 69 74 -5 Roger Sloan,T73 71 72,75 70 66 68 -10 Ryan Yip T118 72 71.74 69 70 72 -4
Brad Fritsch has finished T7 improving 11 spots on his 18th spot on the Web.Com money list. Adam Hadwin closed with 4 straight 68's to finish T32.... The top 25 got their tour cards.
The winner is Dong-Lwan Lee of South Korea at -25, English star Ross Fisher closed with 66 to place 2nd at -24
PGA West (Nicklaus Tournament Course and TPC Stadium) La Quinta California
Click here for live scoring http://www.pgatour.com/qschool/leaderboard/
LPGA Tour
There are 8 Canadians in the LPGA field. Rebecaa Lee-Bentham, 1st 69 75 67 69,67 -13 Ashley Sholer,MC 80 73 76 +13 Sue Kim,T53 76 71 74 70 69 E Stephanie Sherlock,T10 71 70 71 69 74 -5 Seema Sedekar, MC 76 70 75 +5 Kirby Dreher, MC 78.80 73+15 Izzy Beisiegel, MC 76.75 76 +11 Samantha Richdale MC 76 74 71 +5
Round 5 wrap
Rebecca Lee-Bentham sank a 60-foot birdie putt on the final hole of LPGA Final Qualifying to earn co-medalist honors with Thailand’s Moriya Jutanugarn. The Toronto native started the day six strokes off the lead but carded five birdies in her bogey-free round for a share of the top spot with Jutanugarn at 13-under par.
“I wasn’t really thinking about coming in first or anything,” said Lee-Bentham. “I just wanted to play well and focus on striking it well and making putts. I’ve been waiting for this for a while. It’s been a long grind for everybody out here.”
Stephanie Sherlock joins Lee-Bentham as the second Canadian to fill a spot in the top-20 this year and finished 10th after a 2-over 74 in the final round
Sue Kim finished T32 after a closing 69 and she will recieve Priority List 17 status as only the top 20 and ties get their LPGA cards.
LPGA International Daytona Beach, Florida
Click here for live scoring http://www.lpga.com/golf/news/2012/11/qschool-stage-iii-rd2-results.aspx
Notes
Graeme McDowell (68 -17) won for the fiirst time in 2 years as he beat his playing partner Keegan Bradley by 3 shots to win the PGA World Challenge. His last win was the same event when he beat Tiger in a playoff
Speaking of Tiger he put up $4m of his own cash to keep the exhibition event afloat after Chevron withdrew.
Meanwhile in South Africa Martin Kaymer shot -3 69 to win the Nedbank Golf Challenge by 2 shots at -8 280. Kaymer has struggled trying to regain his trademark fade after changing his game to a draw to try and play more effectively at the Masters.
Bryan Angus
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www.nextsportstar.com
daily 7-9 Breakfast Club
Next year the players who finish 126-200 on the PGA Tour and the top 75 from the Web.com Tour will play 3 tournaments and the top 50 will get their cards. There will be a Q school but only for the Web.Com Tour.
I feel that's a shame because as many of you will know, Q school is full of thrills and spills and there aren't any tournaments all year with more tension.
PGA Tour
6th round wrap
Seven Canadians have made it to the final stage this year. Mitch Evanecz T140 74 69,73 70 75 +1
Brad Fritsch, T7 72 67,66 71,66 68 -22 Adam Hadwin,T32 74 71,68 68 68 68 -15 Matt Hill,T118, 74 65,73 70,72 74 -4 Richard Scott,T114 73 70,73 68 69 74 -5 Roger Sloan,T73 71 72,75 70 66 68 -10 Ryan Yip T118 72 71.74 69 70 72 -4
Brad Fritsch has finished T7 improving 11 spots on his 18th spot on the Web.Com money list. Adam Hadwin closed with 4 straight 68's to finish T32.... The top 25 got their tour cards.
The winner is Dong-Lwan Lee of South Korea at -25, English star Ross Fisher closed with 66 to place 2nd at -24
PGA West (Nicklaus Tournament Course and TPC Stadium) La Quinta California
Click here for live scoring http://www.pgatour.com/qschool/leaderboard/
LPGA Tour
There are 8 Canadians in the LPGA field. Rebecaa Lee-Bentham, 1st 69 75 67 69,67 -13 Ashley Sholer,MC 80 73 76 +13 Sue Kim,T53 76 71 74 70 69 E Stephanie Sherlock,T10 71 70 71 69 74 -5 Seema Sedekar, MC 76 70 75 +5 Kirby Dreher, MC 78.80 73+15 Izzy Beisiegel, MC 76.75 76 +11 Samantha Richdale MC 76 74 71 +5
Round 5 wrap
Rebecca Lee-Bentham sank a 60-foot birdie putt on the final hole of LPGA Final Qualifying to earn co-medalist honors with Thailand’s Moriya Jutanugarn. The Toronto native started the day six strokes off the lead but carded five birdies in her bogey-free round for a share of the top spot with Jutanugarn at 13-under par.
“I wasn’t really thinking about coming in first or anything,” said Lee-Bentham. “I just wanted to play well and focus on striking it well and making putts. I’ve been waiting for this for a while. It’s been a long grind for everybody out here.”
Stephanie Sherlock joins Lee-Bentham as the second Canadian to fill a spot in the top-20 this year and finished 10th after a 2-over 74 in the final round
Sue Kim finished T32 after a closing 69 and she will recieve Priority List 17 status as only the top 20 and ties get their LPGA cards.
LPGA International Daytona Beach, Florida
Click here for live scoring http://www.lpga.com/golf/news/2012/11/qschool-stage-iii-rd2-results.aspx
Notes
Graeme McDowell (68 -17) won for the fiirst time in 2 years as he beat his playing partner Keegan Bradley by 3 shots to win the PGA World Challenge. His last win was the same event when he beat Tiger in a playoff
Speaking of Tiger he put up $4m of his own cash to keep the exhibition event afloat after Chevron withdrew.
Meanwhile in South Africa Martin Kaymer shot -3 69 to win the Nedbank Golf Challenge by 2 shots at -8 280. Kaymer has struggled trying to regain his trademark fade after changing his game to a draw to try and play more effectively at the Masters.
Bryan Angus
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www.nextsportstar.com
daily 7-9 Breakfast Club
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Rory is the Story in Dubai.. live scoring links to all tours
Rory McIlroy has already won it, but the Race To Dubai officially wraps up at the Earth Course in Dubai this weekend. Expect to see Tour officials tweak the format this year so the outcome has a better chance of hinging on this final week..
You may remember Luke Donald had to travel to Florida for the season ending event last year to ensure he edged out Webb Simpson or the PGA Tour money title and in fact he finished 3rd in Dubai to wrap up the European Tour money title.
The Japan and Australasian Tours are in full swing as is the Sunshine Tour in RSA and as always I will provide live scoring links and reports here for them all..
EUROPEAN TOUR
DP World Tour Championship
Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Jumeirah Golf Estates, Earth Course (7,675 yards, par 72).
$8 million. 1st place: $1,333,560
Defending champ Alviro Quiros..
Round 4 wrap
europeantour.com Rory McIlroy capped his remarkable 2012 season with victory at the DP World Tour Championship on a dramatic final day at Jumeirah Golf Estates.
The World Number One held off not only World Number Two and playing partner Luke Donald, but also Justin Rose - whose Earth Course record 62 had threatened to spoil the Northern Irishman’s lap of honour after a year in which he has won The Race to Dubai, the US PGA Championship and the money list in America.
McIlroy had found himself two behind as Ryder Cup teammate Rose put the finishing touches to a dazzling ten under par display, the lowest round of his European Tour career by two.
But the 23 year old, tied for the lead with second-ranked Donald overnight, was not to be denied and finished with five closing birdies.
He chipped close on the long 14th, pitched to three feet at the next, made a 20 footer on the 16th and went one ahead with a six foot putt on the short 17th.
Rose had done miraculously well to two-putt the par five last for birdie from around 100 feet, but McIlroy matched it to win by two; shooting 66 for 23 under.
By adding the title to his Race to Dubai crown McIlroy earned himself a combined €1,822,520 to set a new record for a single-season earnings with €5,519,117.
It was his fifth victory during a 2012 which included a second Major title - like the first by eight shots - and the same money list double on both sides of the Atlantic achieved by Donald last year. This season he has finished in the top ten in ten of his 15 tournaments on The European Tour
After finding the water on the last Donald shared third place with South African Charl Schwartzel
for tee times, live scoring click http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2012/tournamentid=2012092/teetimes/index.html
PGA TOUR OF AUSTRALASIA
BMW New Zealand Open,
Clearwater Resort,
Christchurch, New Zealand
for live scoring click http://www.bmwnzopen.co.nz/Tournaments/BMWNZOpen/TournamentLeaderboard.aspx
Round 4 wrap
Australian Jake Higginbottom became the first amateur golfer for 56 years to be crowned New Zealand Open champion with his one-shot victory in the BMW-sponsored tournament hosted by Christchurch at Clearwater.
Fellow Australian Harry Berwick achieved that feat also in Christchurch, but at Shirley, in 1956 that win coming two years after left-handed Bob Charles had won his country’s showpiece event as an amateur.
Higginbottom, a 19-year-old from New South Wales, started the final round three shots adrift of Mark Brown, New Zealand’s main hope of ending a drought of nine years since a Kiwi held aloft the winner’s silverware, the Brodie Breeze Trophy.
But his final round five under par 67 was good enough for a one shot win from Australian professionals Jason Norris and Peter Wilson who took home in the $A56,400 each from the event
JAPAN GOLF TOUR
Casio World Open
Kochi Kuroshio Country Club,
Kochi, Japan.
for live scoring click http://www.jgto.org/jgto/WG02060000Init.do?year=2012&tournaKbnCd=0&conferenceCd=34&round=3
Round 4 wrap
Jung-Gon Huang 65 70,68, 66 -19 led from start to finish to win by 3 shots at the Casio World Open in Japan.
SUNSHINE TOUR
Lion of Africa Cape Town Open,
Royal Cape Golf Club, Cape Town, South Africa
for live scoring click http://www.sunshinetour.info/tic/tmlsmon.cgi?tourn=CTOP~cardlink=Y~~season=212S~style=00~groupties=Y~pr=N~textout=N~bordersize=1~fontsize=*~winfocus=Y~
Round 3 wrap (round 4 in progress)
South African Mark Williams -8 66,67,75 leads after round 3 by a shot over fellow South African Colin Nel
Gary Player Invitational,
Fairmont Zimbali Country Club,
Zimbali, South Africa.
for live scoring click http://garyplayerinvitational.com/
Bryan Angus
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You may remember Luke Donald had to travel to Florida for the season ending event last year to ensure he edged out Webb Simpson or the PGA Tour money title and in fact he finished 3rd in Dubai to wrap up the European Tour money title.
The Japan and Australasian Tours are in full swing as is the Sunshine Tour in RSA and as always I will provide live scoring links and reports here for them all..
EUROPEAN TOUR
DP World Tour Championship
Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Jumeirah Golf Estates, Earth Course (7,675 yards, par 72).
$8 million. 1st place: $1,333,560
Defending champ Alviro Quiros..
Round 4 wrap
europeantour.com Rory McIlroy capped his remarkable 2012 season with victory at the DP World Tour Championship on a dramatic final day at Jumeirah Golf Estates.
The World Number One held off not only World Number Two and playing partner Luke Donald, but also Justin Rose - whose Earth Course record 62 had threatened to spoil the Northern Irishman’s lap of honour after a year in which he has won The Race to Dubai, the US PGA Championship and the money list in America.
McIlroy had found himself two behind as Ryder Cup teammate Rose put the finishing touches to a dazzling ten under par display, the lowest round of his European Tour career by two.
But the 23 year old, tied for the lead with second-ranked Donald overnight, was not to be denied and finished with five closing birdies.
He chipped close on the long 14th, pitched to three feet at the next, made a 20 footer on the 16th and went one ahead with a six foot putt on the short 17th.
Rose had done miraculously well to two-putt the par five last for birdie from around 100 feet, but McIlroy matched it to win by two; shooting 66 for 23 under.
By adding the title to his Race to Dubai crown McIlroy earned himself a combined €1,822,520 to set a new record for a single-season earnings with €5,519,117.
It was his fifth victory during a 2012 which included a second Major title - like the first by eight shots - and the same money list double on both sides of the Atlantic achieved by Donald last year. This season he has finished in the top ten in ten of his 15 tournaments on The European Tour
After finding the water on the last Donald shared third place with South African Charl Schwartzel
for tee times, live scoring click http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2012/tournamentid=2012092/teetimes/index.html
PGA TOUR OF AUSTRALASIA
BMW New Zealand Open,
Clearwater Resort,
Christchurch, New Zealand
for live scoring click http://www.bmwnzopen.co.nz/Tournaments/BMWNZOpen/TournamentLeaderboard.aspx
Round 4 wrap
Australian Jake Higginbottom became the first amateur golfer for 56 years to be crowned New Zealand Open champion with his one-shot victory in the BMW-sponsored tournament hosted by Christchurch at Clearwater.
Fellow Australian Harry Berwick achieved that feat also in Christchurch, but at Shirley, in 1956 that win coming two years after left-handed Bob Charles had won his country’s showpiece event as an amateur.
Higginbottom, a 19-year-old from New South Wales, started the final round three shots adrift of Mark Brown, New Zealand’s main hope of ending a drought of nine years since a Kiwi held aloft the winner’s silverware, the Brodie Breeze Trophy.
But his final round five under par 67 was good enough for a one shot win from Australian professionals Jason Norris and Peter Wilson who took home in the $A56,400 each from the event
JAPAN GOLF TOUR
Casio World Open
Kochi Kuroshio Country Club,
Kochi, Japan.
for live scoring click http://www.jgto.org/jgto/WG02060000Init.do?year=2012&tournaKbnCd=0&conferenceCd=34&round=3
Round 4 wrap
Jung-Gon Huang 65 70,68, 66 -19 led from start to finish to win by 3 shots at the Casio World Open in Japan.
SUNSHINE TOUR
Lion of Africa Cape Town Open,
Royal Cape Golf Club, Cape Town, South Africa
for live scoring click http://www.sunshinetour.info/tic/tmlsmon.cgi?tourn=CTOP~cardlink=Y~~season=212S~style=00~groupties=Y~pr=N~textout=N~bordersize=1~fontsize=*~winfocus=Y~
Round 3 wrap (round 4 in progress)
South African Mark Williams -8 66,67,75 leads after round 3 by a shot over fellow South African Colin Nel
Gary Player Invitational,
Fairmont Zimbali Country Club,
Zimbali, South Africa.
for live scoring click http://garyplayerinvitational.com/
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Friday, November 16, 2012
Yip, Sloan, Scott, Hill and Evancez all advance...Canadian results at Q school.. live scoring
Here is a summary of Canadian results from golfcanada. I have added live scoring links to each course
Stage 2 of Q School is now complete and on Saturday Matt Hill and Mitch Evanecz advantaced.
On Friday, Ryan Yip of Calgary, Roger Sloan of Merritt, B.C. and Richard Scott of Kingsville, Ont., all advanced to the final stage which will be played November 28th - December 3rd at PGA West.
Adam Hadwin of Abbotsford, B.C., and Brad Fritsch of Ottawa will also be on hand at the final Q-school stage. Fritsch, who earned his PGA Tour card last month in the finale of the Web.com Tour Championship, will be looking to improve his priority standing heading into the 2013 season.
MURRIETA, California.
http://pgatq.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/pgatq12/event/pgatq1227/contest/1/leaderboard.htm
Stage 2 of Q School is now complete and on Saturday Matt Hill and Mitch Evanecz advantaced.
On Friday, Ryan Yip of Calgary, Roger Sloan of Merritt, B.C. and Richard Scott of Kingsville, Ont., all advanced to the final stage which will be played November 28th - December 3rd at PGA West.
Adam Hadwin of Abbotsford, B.C., and Brad Fritsch of Ottawa will also be on hand at the final Q-school stage. Fritsch, who earned his PGA Tour card last month in the finale of the Web.com Tour Championship, will be looking to improve his priority standing heading into the 2013 season.
MURRIETA, California.
http://pgatq.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/pgatq12/event/pgatq1227/contest/1/leaderboard.htm
Mitch Evanecz of Red Deer, Alta., played his worst round of the week but it did not cost him. The former Alberta Amateur Champion carded a round of 73 at the Bear Creek Golf Club to finish in a tie for sixth, good enough to advance to the final stage.
Stuart Anderson of Sooke, B.C., put together a furious final round only to come up two strokes short. Anderson shot a round of 67 which included seven birdies over a nine hole stretch but it left him tied for 26th. Only the top 19 and ties advanced.
Nick Taylor of Abbotsford, B.C., started the day two strokes off the cut line but a final round of 77 dropped him into a tie for 46th.
HUMBLE, TX
http://pgatq.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/pgatq12/event/pgatq1225/contest/1/leaderboard.htm
Roger Sloan of Merritt, B.C., carded a final round 72 at Redstone Golf Club to finish in a tie for 12th and advance to the final stage of PGA Tour Q-School.
Joining him was Richard Scott of Kingsville, Ont., who needed two birdies over his final four holes to make the cut on the number and finish in a tie for 18th. Only the top 19 and ties advanced to the final stage.
Michael Gligic (73) of Burlington, Ont., and Wes Heffernan (78) of Calgary both failed to advance
BROOKSVILLE, FL
http://pgatq.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/pgatq12/event/pgatq1224/contest/1/leaderboard.htm
For the third straight day, Matt Hill carded a 2-under 70 at Southern Hills Plantation Club in Brooksville, Florida. That left him in ninth place at 11-under par which easily put him through to the final stage.
Jon Mills of Belleville, Ont., saved his best for last, posting his lowest round of the week, a 3-under 69, to finish in a tie for 51st.
PANAMA CITY, FL
http://pgatq.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/pgatq12/event/pgatq1228/contest/1/leaderboard.htm
Eugene Wong of North Vancouver, B.C., posted his best round of the week, 2-under 69 at the Hombre Golf Club. That left him tied for 23rd, which was two strokes shy of advancing to the final stage.
Ted Brown of Peterborough, Ont., shot 72 and finished in a tie for 60th
PLANTATION, FL
http://pgatq.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/pgatq12/event/pgatq1225/contest/1/leaderboard.htm
Ryan Yip of Calgary has qualified for the final stage of Q-school with a final round 67 on Friday at Plantation Preserve Golf Course & Club in Plantation, Florida. Yip finished in a tie for 13th as the top 19 and ties qualified to move on.
David Byrne of Essex, Ont., carded a final round 70 and missed the cut by three strokes while Yohann Benson of Montreal shot 71 to miss out by four strokes.
Rob Oppenheim took medalist honors at 21 under par after a 67 Friday. South Korea’s Meen Whee Kim finished second four shots back, while Kris Blanks finished third.
Ross Fisher,a European Tour winner and former Ryder Cup player, finished in a tie for 13th while another European Tour winner, Oliver Fisher, birdied his final two holes to make the cut on the number at 10-under par.
Among the notables who failed to advance were Hank Kuehne, Jamie Lovemark, Jesper Parnevik and Manuel Villegas, brother of PGA Tour pro Camilo Villegas, who will be playing in the final stage at the end of the month to try and retain his Tour card for next year
MCKINNEY, TX
http://pgatq.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/pgatq12/event/pgatq1225/contest/1/leaderboard.htm
None of the four Canadians entered in the qualifier at TPC Craig Ranch managed to advance to the final stage. James Love of Calgary came the closest, missing by just five strokes after a final round 72 which left him tied for 33rd.
Only the top 20 and ties advanced to the final stage.
Adam Cornelson (70) of Langley, B.C., finished tied for 48th, David McKenzie (70) of Georgetown, Ont., finished tied for 55th while Chris Baryla (73) of Vernon, B.C. and Dave Levesque (74) of Sainte-Catherine, Que., finished tied for 65th.
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Stuart Anderson of Sooke, B.C., put together a furious final round only to come up two strokes short. Anderson shot a round of 67 which included seven birdies over a nine hole stretch but it left him tied for 26th. Only the top 19 and ties advanced.
Nick Taylor of Abbotsford, B.C., started the day two strokes off the cut line but a final round of 77 dropped him into a tie for 46th.
HUMBLE, TX
http://pgatq.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/pgatq12/event/pgatq1225/contest/1/leaderboard.htm
Roger Sloan of Merritt, B.C., carded a final round 72 at Redstone Golf Club to finish in a tie for 12th and advance to the final stage of PGA Tour Q-School.
Joining him was Richard Scott of Kingsville, Ont., who needed two birdies over his final four holes to make the cut on the number and finish in a tie for 18th. Only the top 19 and ties advanced to the final stage.
Michael Gligic (73) of Burlington, Ont., and Wes Heffernan (78) of Calgary both failed to advance
BROOKSVILLE, FL
http://pgatq.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/pgatq12/event/pgatq1224/contest/1/leaderboard.htm
For the third straight day, Matt Hill carded a 2-under 70 at Southern Hills Plantation Club in Brooksville, Florida. That left him in ninth place at 11-under par which easily put him through to the final stage.
Jon Mills of Belleville, Ont., saved his best for last, posting his lowest round of the week, a 3-under 69, to finish in a tie for 51st.
PANAMA CITY, FL
http://pgatq.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/pgatq12/event/pgatq1228/contest/1/leaderboard.htm
Eugene Wong of North Vancouver, B.C., posted his best round of the week, 2-under 69 at the Hombre Golf Club. That left him tied for 23rd, which was two strokes shy of advancing to the final stage.
Ted Brown of Peterborough, Ont., shot 72 and finished in a tie for 60th
PLANTATION, FL
http://pgatq.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/pgatq12/event/pgatq1225/contest/1/leaderboard.htm
Ryan Yip of Calgary has qualified for the final stage of Q-school with a final round 67 on Friday at Plantation Preserve Golf Course & Club in Plantation, Florida. Yip finished in a tie for 13th as the top 19 and ties qualified to move on.
David Byrne of Essex, Ont., carded a final round 70 and missed the cut by three strokes while Yohann Benson of Montreal shot 71 to miss out by four strokes.
Rob Oppenheim took medalist honors at 21 under par after a 67 Friday. South Korea’s Meen Whee Kim finished second four shots back, while Kris Blanks finished third.
Ross Fisher,a European Tour winner and former Ryder Cup player, finished in a tie for 13th while another European Tour winner, Oliver Fisher, birdied his final two holes to make the cut on the number at 10-under par.
Among the notables who failed to advance were Hank Kuehne, Jamie Lovemark, Jesper Parnevik and Manuel Villegas, brother of PGA Tour pro Camilo Villegas, who will be playing in the final stage at the end of the month to try and retain his Tour card for next year
MCKINNEY, TX
http://pgatq.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/pgatq12/event/pgatq1225/contest/1/leaderboard.htm
None of the four Canadians entered in the qualifier at TPC Craig Ranch managed to advance to the final stage. James Love of Calgary came the closest, missing by just five strokes after a final round 72 which left him tied for 33rd.
Only the top 20 and ties advanced to the final stage.
Adam Cornelson (70) of Langley, B.C., finished tied for 48th, David McKenzie (70) of Georgetown, Ont., finished tied for 55th while Chris Baryla (73) of Vernon, B.C. and Dave Levesque (74) of Sainte-Catherine, Que., finished tied for 65th.
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
Donald wins in Japan, Adam Scott in Australia, as golf's stars are scattered around the world this week.. live scoring links
The world's best are scattered around the world as play for the 2012 season winds down. Here are the events with live scoring links to them all..
EUROPEAN/ ASIAN Tour
Hong Kong Open
Hong Kong.
Hong Kong Golf Club (6,734 yards, par 70).
$2 million. 1st prize.: $333,330.
Canadian Andrew Parr MC +3 71,72
for live scoring click http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2012/tournamentid=2012090/leaderboard/index.html?showLeaderboard=Y
Round 4 wrap
europeantour.com .Miguel Angel Jiménez became the oldest winner in European Tour history as the Spaniard produced a masterclass in approach play to capture the UBS Hong Kong Open for the third time.
A five under par round of 65, which might have been even lower had his putter got going, gave him a 15 under par total at Hong Kong Golf Club and one shot victory over Fredrik Andersson Hed.
Australian Marcus Fraser was third and joint fourth came Ireland's Peter Lawrie – sealing his place at the DP World Tour Championship in the process - Scot Stephen Gallacher and 19 year old Italian Matteo Manassero, last week's Barclays Singapore Open champion.
New Zealander Michael Campbell, joint overnight leader with Jiménez, fell away to joint eighth
PGA TOUR OF AUSTRALASIA
Australian Masters
Melbourne, Australia.
Kingston Heath Golf Club (7,116 yards, par 72).
$1.04 million. 1st prize: $187,395.
for live scoring click http://www.pga.org.au/scores
Round 4 wrap
AP.. Adam Scott trumped playing partner Ian Poulter is a classic final day shootout to break a 15-month tournament drought and claim his first gold jacket at the Talisker Masters on Sunday.
Scott took on one of the fiercest competitors in world golf and beat him in a superb head-to-head battle at Kingston Heath, with the world No.5 overturning a one-shot deficit on the final day to win by four strokes at 17 under par.
The Australian's final round score of 67 was five shots better than Poulter's, with the pair showing their dominance by finishing well clear of the rest of the field.
Kiwis Gareth Paddison and Mark Brown had a close battle for third place, but had to settle for a share of the spoils some eight shots behind Scott
EUROPEAN TOUR/SUNSHINE TOUR
South African Open
Ekurhuleni, South Africa.
Serengeti Golf & Wildlife Estate (7,761 yards, par 72).
$1.27 million. 1st prize: $201,090.
for live scoring click http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2012/tournamentid=2012098/leaderboard/index.html
Round 4 wrap
europeantour.com Henrik Stenson ended a five year wait for a European Tour title by capturing the SA Open Championship at the Serengeti Golf & Wildlife Estate.
The Swede saw off a spirited charge from George Coetzee, who was bidding to secure a maiden win with his national title, to finish on 17 under par and triumph by three shots.
Stenson, who also secured his spot at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai by coming out on top, moved to the leaderboard’s summit after the second round and retained his three shot lead by the end of play.
LPGA
CME Group Titleholders
Naples, Fla.
TwinEagles Club, Eagle Course (6,529 yards, par 72).
$1.5 million. 1st prize: $500,000.
for live scoring click http://www.lpgascoring.com/public/Leaderboard.aspx
Round 4 wrap
lpgatour.com South Korean standout Na Yeon Choi (@nychoi87) managed to hold onto her third-round lead to capture her seventh-career LPGA victory at the season-ending CME Group Titleholders (@CMEGroupLPGA) at The TwinEagles Club in Naples, Fla. Choi takes home the $500,000 first-place check after firing rounds of 67-68-69-70 to finish with a 14-under 274. Finishing two shots behind Choi is fellow Korean and Rookie of the Year So Yeon Ryu.
JAPAN GOLF TOUR
Dunlop Phoenix 2012
Phoenix Country Club,
Miyazaki, Japan.
http://www.jgto.org/jgto/WG02020000Init.do?year=2012&tournaKbnCd=0&conferenceCd=33&round=3
Round 4 wrap
World number three Luke Donald has carded a three-under-par 68 to complete a five-stroke victory at the Dunlop Phoenix in Japan.
In an inconsistent final round on Sunday, Donald shot three birdies, an eagle and two bogeys but was never significantly challenged on his way to victory at the Phoenix Country Club in the south of Japan.
Donald started with two birdies and an eagle in the opening eight holes but bogeys on the ninth and 10th halted the 34-year-old's momentum.Having started the final round of the Japan Golf Tour event four strokes clear at the top of the leaderboard, Donald cruised through the back nine with seven consecutive pars following his bogey on the 10th hole and wrapped things up with a birdie on the 18th.
Japanese amateur Hideki Matsuyama took second place thanks to a four-under 67 to finish on 11 under for the tournament, while Koumei Oda was a shot behind in third.
Australia's Brendan Jones finished in a tie for fourth with Hiroyuki Fujita
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EUROPEAN/ ASIAN Tour
Hong Kong Open
Hong Kong.
Hong Kong Golf Club (6,734 yards, par 70).
$2 million. 1st prize.: $333,330.
Canadian Andrew Parr MC +3 71,72
for live scoring click http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2012/tournamentid=2012090/leaderboard/index.html?showLeaderboard=Y
Round 4 wrap
europeantour.com .Miguel Angel Jiménez became the oldest winner in European Tour history as the Spaniard produced a masterclass in approach play to capture the UBS Hong Kong Open for the third time.
A five under par round of 65, which might have been even lower had his putter got going, gave him a 15 under par total at Hong Kong Golf Club and one shot victory over Fredrik Andersson Hed.
Australian Marcus Fraser was third and joint fourth came Ireland's Peter Lawrie – sealing his place at the DP World Tour Championship in the process - Scot Stephen Gallacher and 19 year old Italian Matteo Manassero, last week's Barclays Singapore Open champion.
New Zealander Michael Campbell, joint overnight leader with Jiménez, fell away to joint eighth
PGA TOUR OF AUSTRALASIA
Australian Masters
Melbourne, Australia.
Kingston Heath Golf Club (7,116 yards, par 72).
$1.04 million. 1st prize: $187,395.
for live scoring click http://www.pga.org.au/scores
Round 4 wrap
AP.. Adam Scott trumped playing partner Ian Poulter is a classic final day shootout to break a 15-month tournament drought and claim his first gold jacket at the Talisker Masters on Sunday.
Scott took on one of the fiercest competitors in world golf and beat him in a superb head-to-head battle at Kingston Heath, with the world No.5 overturning a one-shot deficit on the final day to win by four strokes at 17 under par.
The Australian's final round score of 67 was five shots better than Poulter's, with the pair showing their dominance by finishing well clear of the rest of the field.
Kiwis Gareth Paddison and Mark Brown had a close battle for third place, but had to settle for a share of the spoils some eight shots behind Scott
EUROPEAN TOUR/SUNSHINE TOUR
South African Open
Ekurhuleni, South Africa.
Serengeti Golf & Wildlife Estate (7,761 yards, par 72).
$1.27 million. 1st prize: $201,090.
for live scoring click http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2012/tournamentid=2012098/leaderboard/index.html
Round 4 wrap
europeantour.com Henrik Stenson ended a five year wait for a European Tour title by capturing the SA Open Championship at the Serengeti Golf & Wildlife Estate.
The Swede saw off a spirited charge from George Coetzee, who was bidding to secure a maiden win with his national title, to finish on 17 under par and triumph by three shots.
Stenson, who also secured his spot at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai by coming out on top, moved to the leaderboard’s summit after the second round and retained his three shot lead by the end of play.
LPGA
CME Group Titleholders
Naples, Fla.
TwinEagles Club, Eagle Course (6,529 yards, par 72).
$1.5 million. 1st prize: $500,000.
for live scoring click http://www.lpgascoring.com/public/Leaderboard.aspx
Round 4 wrap
lpgatour.com South Korean standout Na Yeon Choi (@nychoi87) managed to hold onto her third-round lead to capture her seventh-career LPGA victory at the season-ending CME Group Titleholders (@CMEGroupLPGA) at The TwinEagles Club in Naples, Fla. Choi takes home the $500,000 first-place check after firing rounds of 67-68-69-70 to finish with a 14-under 274. Finishing two shots behind Choi is fellow Korean and Rookie of the Year So Yeon Ryu.
JAPAN GOLF TOUR
Dunlop Phoenix 2012
Phoenix Country Club,
Miyazaki, Japan.
http://www.jgto.org/jgto/WG02020000Init.do?year=2012&tournaKbnCd=0&conferenceCd=33&round=3
Round 4 wrap
World number three Luke Donald has carded a three-under-par 68 to complete a five-stroke victory at the Dunlop Phoenix in Japan.
In an inconsistent final round on Sunday, Donald shot three birdies, an eagle and two bogeys but was never significantly challenged on his way to victory at the Phoenix Country Club in the south of Japan.
Donald started with two birdies and an eagle in the opening eight holes but bogeys on the ninth and 10th halted the 34-year-old's momentum.Having started the final round of the Japan Golf Tour event four strokes clear at the top of the leaderboard, Donald cruised through the back nine with seven consecutive pars following his bogey on the 10th hole and wrapped things up with a birdie on the 18th.
Japanese amateur Hideki Matsuyama took second place thanks to a four-under 67 to finish on 11 under for the tournament, while Koumei Oda was a shot behind in third.
Australia's Brendan Jones finished in a tie for fourth with Hiroyuki Fujita
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Rory wins PGA of America and US Vardon Trophy awards
Rory McIlroy has just won the PGA of America and US Vardon trophies.
The world number one won four times in the US during a season in which he topped the money lists on both sides of the Atlantic.
McIlroy's victories included his second major win at the US PGA in August.
The Northern Irishman will also be favourite to land the PGA Tour's own player of the year award.
Tiger Woods was runner-up for the PGA of America's Player of the Year but ineligible for the Vardon Trophy because of his injury withdrawal during the final round of the WGC Championship in Miami in March.
But for that he would have finished with an average of 68.9 to McIlroy's 68.87 but second place instead went to Jim Furyk on 69.3.
The PGA Tour has its own Player of the Year award, and members have until 30 November to vote.
Rory is defending his title in Hong Kong this week having just wrapped up the Race to Dubai after his 3rd place finish in Singapore.
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Matteo Manessero wins a playoff Singapore, Beljan wins at Disney..with live scoring links and all Canadian scores
The last official event of the year is the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals Classic at the Disney Resort in Florida and of course it is life or death for all the guys who have not secured their cards and are around the 125 mark. Billy Mayfair is on that number right now.
Remember last year Luke Donald had to play this event as he and Webb Simpson were close for the money title. He shot 64 won the tourney and went on to win the money titles on both tours in his year of years.
Rory McIlroy is about to emulate him, he has already wrapped up the PGA tour and has a healthy lead as he plays in Singapore this week, on the European Tour.
PGA Tour
CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK HOSPITALS CLASSIC
Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
Walt Disney World Resort, Magnolia Course (7,516 yards, par 72) and Palm Course (7,010 yards)
Canadians Mike Weir MC 74, 70
Round 4 wrap
pgatour.com Two days after he was wheeled out of the scoring room on a stretcher, Charlie Beljan was celebrating on the 18th green as the band played "Zippity-Do-Dah." He arrived at the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals Classic with his job in jeopardy, and left with a two-year exemption that will send him to the Hyundai Tournament of Champions at the start of the year, the PGA Championship at Oak Hill and lots of other tournaments where winners belong.
"Every day I drove underneath that Disney sign coming in here that said, 'Where dreams come true,' and that's just what happened this week," Beljan said after closing with a 3-under 69 for a two-shot win.
Robert Garrigus and Matt Every each closed with 68s and tied for second.
Tim Herron was the other big winner Sunday, closing with a 69 to tie for ninth. That gave him enough money to move from No. 138 to No. 124 on the money list, giving him his full card for the 2013 season.
Kevin Chappell finished at No. 125. He wound up $1,809 ahead of Jerry Kelly, who is out of the top 125 for the first time in his career
for tee times and live scoring http://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/r045/tee-times.html
top 125 money list click http://www.pgatour.com/r/stats/info/?109
European/ Asian Tour
SINGAPORE OPEN
Sentosa Golf Club, Serapong Course (7,372 yards, par 71).
$6 million. Winner: $1 million.
Canadians : None
Round 4 wrap
europeantour.com....Rory McIlroy had a 69 65 weekend to finish 3rd at -10. Louis Oosthuizen and Matteo Manessero went to a playoff to decide the winner..
With both in the fairway in the third playff hole, each player found the green, with Oosthuizen using the slope long of the green to help his ball back onto the left of the putting surface while Manassero did the same, but half the distance to the hole, with an excellent chance of eagle. And the Italian took advantage, rolling his putt for a three right in the heart from 12 feet after Oosthuizen had missed from long range, and Manassero picks up the third win of his career on The European Tour at just 19 years of age
tee times and live scoring http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2012/tournamentid=2012088/teetimes/index.html
LPGA
LORENA OCHOA INVITATIONAL
Guadalajara, Mexico.
Thursday-Sunday.
Guadalajara Country Club (6,644 yards, par 72).
$1 million. Winner: $200,000.
Canadians None
Round 4 wrap
lpgatour.com Cristie Kerr fired a final-round 3-under 69 and overcame a two stroke deficit to win this year’s Lorena Ochoa Invitational Presented by Banamex and Jalisco.
“It feels amazing,” said Kerr. “You know, coming in those last couple of holes it didn’t feel like I had won before. I kind of just squeaked in. I won by a shot, that’s all that it takes, I’ve lost plenty of tournaments by a shot, but winning by a shot feels a lot better.”
Kerr entered today’s final round two-strokes behind second round leader Angela Stanford but carded six birdies and three bogeys to secure her first LPGA Tour victory in two years. The Floridian fired rounds of 67-69-67-69 to take home her 15th win on the LPGA.
Stacy Lewis Clinches Rolex Player of the Year… With her T4th finish at this week’s Lorena Ochoa Invitational Presented by Banamex and Jalisco, Stacy Lewis clinches this year Rolex Player of the Year and becomes the first American since Beth Daniel in 1994 to win the award.
tee times and live scoring click http://www.lpgascoring.com/public/Pairings.aspx?
eGOLF PROFESSIONAL TOUR
Championship at River Run
River Run Country Club,
Davidson, N.C.
Canadians Zack Schnurr MC +9 79,74
Final wrap
Matt Ryan of Santa Clarita, CA spent a good portion of 2012 working on his approach and his mental game. That work, as it turned out, was put to good use in Thursday’s final round of the eGolf Tour’s Championship at River Run. Errant tee shots on the front and back nines led to two balls out-of-bounds, but allowed Ryan to stay focused, turning two bad swings into a final-nine comeback, which left him on the winning side (73 -5), of a day-long battle with playing partner Bobby MacWhinnie of Charlotte, NC.. (74 -4)
live scoring click http://tarheel.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/tarheel12/event/tarheel1220/contest/1/leaderboard.htm
EUROPEAN SENIOR TOUR
Fubon Senior Open,
Miramar Golf and Country Club,
Taipei, Taiwan.
Canadians Rick Gibson T19 72 71 73 E, Bill Hardwick T51 74 73 +3, Ken Tarling T24 73 69 75 +1,
europeantour.com Tim Thelen has won his third European Senior Tour title of the year after a five shot victory in the Fubon Senior Open at Miramar Golf and Country Club in Taipei, Taiwan.
live scoring click http://www.europeantour.com/seniortour/season=2012/tournamentid=2012890/teetimes/index.html
JAPAN GOLF TOUR
Taiheiyo Masters,
Taiheiyo Club,
Gotemba Course,
Shizuoka, Japan.
Canadians None
Final wrap
After 3 rounds Ryo Ishikawa -11 67 69 69 and a final round of 68 has just won the Taiheiyo Masters by a shot with a -15 total.
live scoring click http://www.jgto.org/jgto/WG02060000Init.do?year=2012&tournaKbnCd=0&conferenceCd=32&round=3
Bryan Angus
twitter@mummmbles
www.isr1050.com
broadcasting daily M-F 7-9am at www.nextsportstar.com
Remember last year Luke Donald had to play this event as he and Webb Simpson were close for the money title. He shot 64 won the tourney and went on to win the money titles on both tours in his year of years.
Rory McIlroy is about to emulate him, he has already wrapped up the PGA tour and has a healthy lead as he plays in Singapore this week, on the European Tour.
PGA Tour
CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK HOSPITALS CLASSIC
Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
Walt Disney World Resort, Magnolia Course (7,516 yards, par 72) and Palm Course (7,010 yards)
Canadians Mike Weir MC 74, 70
Round 4 wrap
pgatour.com Two days after he was wheeled out of the scoring room on a stretcher, Charlie Beljan was celebrating on the 18th green as the band played "Zippity-Do-Dah." He arrived at the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals Classic with his job in jeopardy, and left with a two-year exemption that will send him to the Hyundai Tournament of Champions at the start of the year, the PGA Championship at Oak Hill and lots of other tournaments where winners belong.
"Every day I drove underneath that Disney sign coming in here that said, 'Where dreams come true,' and that's just what happened this week," Beljan said after closing with a 3-under 69 for a two-shot win.
Robert Garrigus and Matt Every each closed with 68s and tied for second.
Tim Herron was the other big winner Sunday, closing with a 69 to tie for ninth. That gave him enough money to move from No. 138 to No. 124 on the money list, giving him his full card for the 2013 season.
Kevin Chappell finished at No. 125. He wound up $1,809 ahead of Jerry Kelly, who is out of the top 125 for the first time in his career
for tee times and live scoring http://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/r045/tee-times.html
top 125 money list click http://www.pgatour.com/r/stats/info/?109
European/ Asian Tour
SINGAPORE OPEN
Sentosa Golf Club, Serapong Course (7,372 yards, par 71).
$6 million. Winner: $1 million.
Canadians : None
Round 4 wrap
europeantour.com....Rory McIlroy had a 69 65 weekend to finish 3rd at -10. Louis Oosthuizen and Matteo Manessero went to a playoff to decide the winner..
With both in the fairway in the third playff hole, each player found the green, with Oosthuizen using the slope long of the green to help his ball back onto the left of the putting surface while Manassero did the same, but half the distance to the hole, with an excellent chance of eagle. And the Italian took advantage, rolling his putt for a three right in the heart from 12 feet after Oosthuizen had missed from long range, and Manassero picks up the third win of his career on The European Tour at just 19 years of age
tee times and live scoring http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2012/tournamentid=2012088/teetimes/index.html
LPGA
LORENA OCHOA INVITATIONAL
Guadalajara, Mexico.
Thursday-Sunday.
Guadalajara Country Club (6,644 yards, par 72).
$1 million. Winner: $200,000.
Canadians None
Round 4 wrap
lpgatour.com Cristie Kerr fired a final-round 3-under 69 and overcame a two stroke deficit to win this year’s Lorena Ochoa Invitational Presented by Banamex and Jalisco.
“It feels amazing,” said Kerr. “You know, coming in those last couple of holes it didn’t feel like I had won before. I kind of just squeaked in. I won by a shot, that’s all that it takes, I’ve lost plenty of tournaments by a shot, but winning by a shot feels a lot better.”
Kerr entered today’s final round two-strokes behind second round leader Angela Stanford but carded six birdies and three bogeys to secure her first LPGA Tour victory in two years. The Floridian fired rounds of 67-69-67-69 to take home her 15th win on the LPGA.
Stacy Lewis Clinches Rolex Player of the Year… With her T4th finish at this week’s Lorena Ochoa Invitational Presented by Banamex and Jalisco, Stacy Lewis clinches this year Rolex Player of the Year and becomes the first American since Beth Daniel in 1994 to win the award.
tee times and live scoring click http://www.lpgascoring.com/public/Pairings.aspx?
eGOLF PROFESSIONAL TOUR
Championship at River Run
River Run Country Club,
Davidson, N.C.
Canadians Zack Schnurr MC +9 79,74
Final wrap
Matt Ryan of Santa Clarita, CA spent a good portion of 2012 working on his approach and his mental game. That work, as it turned out, was put to good use in Thursday’s final round of the eGolf Tour’s Championship at River Run. Errant tee shots on the front and back nines led to two balls out-of-bounds, but allowed Ryan to stay focused, turning two bad swings into a final-nine comeback, which left him on the winning side (73 -5), of a day-long battle with playing partner Bobby MacWhinnie of Charlotte, NC.. (74 -4)
live scoring click http://tarheel.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/tarheel12/event/tarheel1220/contest/1/leaderboard.htm
EUROPEAN SENIOR TOUR
Fubon Senior Open,
Miramar Golf and Country Club,
Taipei, Taiwan.
Canadians Rick Gibson T19 72 71 73 E, Bill Hardwick T51 74 73 +3, Ken Tarling T24 73 69 75 +1,
europeantour.com Tim Thelen has won his third European Senior Tour title of the year after a five shot victory in the Fubon Senior Open at Miramar Golf and Country Club in Taipei, Taiwan.
live scoring click http://www.europeantour.com/seniortour/season=2012/tournamentid=2012890/teetimes/index.html
JAPAN GOLF TOUR
Taiheiyo Masters,
Taiheiyo Club,
Gotemba Course,
Shizuoka, Japan.
Canadians None
Final wrap
After 3 rounds Ryo Ishikawa -11 67 69 69 and a final round of 68 has just won the Taiheiyo Masters by a shot with a -15 total.
live scoring click http://www.jgto.org/jgto/WG02060000Init.do?year=2012&tournaKbnCd=0&conferenceCd=32&round=3
Bryan Angus
twitter@mummmbles
www.isr1050.com
broadcasting daily M-F 7-9am at www.nextsportstar.com
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Golf around the world this week... live scoring links..Poulter wins WGC in China, Lehman wins the Schwab !!
The Race to Dubai along with the Champions Tour Charles Schwab Cup finale are front and center this week.
After travelling to Malaysia for a couple of exhibitions and a ton of cash Tiger is back in the States and won't play until his World Challenge presented by Northwestern Mutual, Thursday Nov 29 – Sunday Dec 2, 2012 at Sherwood CC · Thousand Oaks, California. It's another exhibition tourney with 18 in the field.
Rory is off this week, plays the next 3 culminating in Dubai.
The Champions Tour has it's season finale for the top 30 on the money list and it's the culmination of the Charles Scwab Cup.. Bernhard Langer is in the drivers seat.
The LPGA is in Japan for the 3rd week of it's Asian Tour.
PGA, European Tours
WORLD GOLF CHAMPIONSIPS
HSBC CHAMPIONS
Shenzhen, China.
Mission Hills Golf Club, Olazabal Course (7,320 yards, par 72).
$7 million. 1st: $1.2 million.
Canadians None
Round 4 wrap europeantour.com
Ian Poulter shot a 7-under 65 to rally from four strokes back to win the HSBC Champions on Sunday.
Poulter, who sparked the European squad to victory at the Ryder Cup this year, had eight birdies against one bogey in the final round to finish at 21-under 267 overall on the Olazabal Course at Mission Hills Golf Club
It was the Englishman's second World Golf Championship victory -- he also captured the Accenture Match Play Championship in 2010 -- and his first title of any kind since the World Match Play Championship in May 2011.
Phil Mickelson (68), Jason Dufner (64), Scott Piercy (65) and Ernie Els (67) finished in a tie for second at 19-under 269.
Lee Westwood and Louis Oosthuizen, the co-leaders overnight, slumped to equal sixth after struggling on the greens and posting identical scores of 72
tee times, live scoring click http://www.worldgolfchampionships.com/tournaments/r489/tee-times.html
CHAMPIONS TOUR
CHARLES SCHWAB CUP CHAMPIONSHIP
Scottsdale, Ariz.
Thursday-Sunday.
Desert Mountain Club, Cochise Course (7,026 yards, par 72).
$2.5 million. 1st: $440,000.
Canadians None
Round 4 wrap pgatour.com:
Tom Lehman won the Charles Schwab Cup Championship at Desert Mountain to become the first player to win the season points title two straight years.
After shooting 68-63-62 to take a one-stroke lead into the final round, Lehman birdied four of the last five holes for a 5-under 65 and a six-stroke victory
Lehman finished at 22-under 258 on the par-70 Cochise Course to break the Champions Tour record for the lowest numerical score in a 72-hole event. Jack Nicklaus set the previous record of 261 at par-72 Dearborn Country Club in Michigan in the 1990 Mazda Senior TPC.
Jay Haas shot a 69 to finish second. Jay Don Blake was third at 14 under after a 66, and Fred Couples and Fred Funk were another stroke back. Couples, a stroke behind Lehman at the start of the round, had a 73, and Funk shot 65
Lehman received a $1 million annuity in the Charles Schwab Cup points competition and earned $440,000 for the tournament victory. The 53-year-old Scottsdale resident also won the Regions Tradition in June in Alabama and has seven victories in 62 career starts on the 50-and-over tour. He won five times on the PGA TOUR.
live scoring click http://www.pgatour.com/s/leaderboard/
LPGA TOUR/JAPAN LPGA TOUR
MIZUNO CLASSIC
Shima, Japan.
Kintetsu Kashikojima Country Club (6,506 yards, par 72).
$1.2 million. 1st: $180,000
Canadians None
Round 3 wrap lgatour.com
Stacy Lewis made a powerful charge in Sunday’s final round to beat second-round leader Bo-Mee Lee by one stroke at the Mizuno Classic. Lewis sat seven shots behind Lee entering Sunday’s round but carded 10 birdies and two bogeys to finish at 8-under par 64. The Texan posted rounds of 71-70-64 to finish 10-under 206 for the week. This marks her fifth-career victory and her fourth this season.
live scoring click http://www.lpgascoring.com/public/Leaderboard.aspx
eGOLF PROFESSIONAL TOUR:
Forest Oaks Open,
Wednesday-Friday,
Forest Oaks Country Club,
Greensboro, N.C.
Canadians Cam Burke +2 MC, Zack Schnurr +5 MC Ryan Terdik +18 MC
Final
After 3 frigid rounds at Forest Oaks Country Club – 30-year site of the PGA TOUR’s Wyndham Championship – Jonathan Fricke of Covington shot a brilliant -7 65 -14 to win by 4 shots over Peter Malnati of Dandridge -3 69 -10
live scoreboard click http://tarheel.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/tarheel12/event/tarheel1224/contest/1/leaderboard.htm
LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR
Sanya Ladies Open,
Yalong Bay Golf Club,
Sanya, China.
Canadians None
Round 3 wrap
Cassandra Kirkland of France came from a stroke behind to claim her first professional title at the Sanya Ladies Open in China.
The 28-year-old from Paris held off stiff opposition to post a final round 70 on a hot and breezy final day at Yalong Bay Golf Club.
She ended two strokes clear of fellow Frenchwoman Jade Schaeffer and England’s Holly Aitchison, with a further nine players a stroke back in a tie for fourth.
live scoring click http://www.letscoring.com/teetimes/56832
Bryan Angus also on twitter@mummmbles and on www.isr1050.com and broadcasting daily 7-9am and writing at http://nssradiotv.com
(notes from pgatour.com, europeantour.com, egolfprofessionaltour.com, usatoday.com)
After travelling to Malaysia for a couple of exhibitions and a ton of cash Tiger is back in the States and won't play until his World Challenge presented by Northwestern Mutual, Thursday Nov 29 – Sunday Dec 2, 2012 at Sherwood CC · Thousand Oaks, California. It's another exhibition tourney with 18 in the field.
Rory is off this week, plays the next 3 culminating in Dubai.
The Champions Tour has it's season finale for the top 30 on the money list and it's the culmination of the Charles Scwab Cup.. Bernhard Langer is in the drivers seat.
The LPGA is in Japan for the 3rd week of it's Asian Tour.
PGA, European Tours
WORLD GOLF CHAMPIONSIPS
HSBC CHAMPIONS
Shenzhen, China.
Mission Hills Golf Club, Olazabal Course (7,320 yards, par 72).
$7 million. 1st: $1.2 million.
Canadians None
Round 4 wrap europeantour.com
Ian Poulter shot a 7-under 65 to rally from four strokes back to win the HSBC Champions on Sunday.
Poulter, who sparked the European squad to victory at the Ryder Cup this year, had eight birdies against one bogey in the final round to finish at 21-under 267 overall on the Olazabal Course at Mission Hills Golf Club
It was the Englishman's second World Golf Championship victory -- he also captured the Accenture Match Play Championship in 2010 -- and his first title of any kind since the World Match Play Championship in May 2011.
Phil Mickelson (68), Jason Dufner (64), Scott Piercy (65) and Ernie Els (67) finished in a tie for second at 19-under 269.
Lee Westwood and Louis Oosthuizen, the co-leaders overnight, slumped to equal sixth after struggling on the greens and posting identical scores of 72
tee times, live scoring click http://www.worldgolfchampionships.com/tournaments/r489/tee-times.html
CHAMPIONS TOUR
CHARLES SCHWAB CUP CHAMPIONSHIP
Scottsdale, Ariz.
Thursday-Sunday.
Desert Mountain Club, Cochise Course (7,026 yards, par 72).
$2.5 million. 1st: $440,000.
Canadians None
Round 4 wrap pgatour.com:
Tom Lehman won the Charles Schwab Cup Championship at Desert Mountain to become the first player to win the season points title two straight years.
After shooting 68-63-62 to take a one-stroke lead into the final round, Lehman birdied four of the last five holes for a 5-under 65 and a six-stroke victory
Lehman finished at 22-under 258 on the par-70 Cochise Course to break the Champions Tour record for the lowest numerical score in a 72-hole event. Jack Nicklaus set the previous record of 261 at par-72 Dearborn Country Club in Michigan in the 1990 Mazda Senior TPC.
Jay Haas shot a 69 to finish second. Jay Don Blake was third at 14 under after a 66, and Fred Couples and Fred Funk were another stroke back. Couples, a stroke behind Lehman at the start of the round, had a 73, and Funk shot 65
Lehman received a $1 million annuity in the Charles Schwab Cup points competition and earned $440,000 for the tournament victory. The 53-year-old Scottsdale resident also won the Regions Tradition in June in Alabama and has seven victories in 62 career starts on the 50-and-over tour. He won five times on the PGA TOUR.
live scoring click http://www.pgatour.com/s/leaderboard/
LPGA TOUR/JAPAN LPGA TOUR
MIZUNO CLASSIC
Shima, Japan.
Kintetsu Kashikojima Country Club (6,506 yards, par 72).
$1.2 million. 1st: $180,000
Canadians None
Round 3 wrap lgatour.com
Stacy Lewis made a powerful charge in Sunday’s final round to beat second-round leader Bo-Mee Lee by one stroke at the Mizuno Classic. Lewis sat seven shots behind Lee entering Sunday’s round but carded 10 birdies and two bogeys to finish at 8-under par 64. The Texan posted rounds of 71-70-64 to finish 10-under 206 for the week. This marks her fifth-career victory and her fourth this season.
live scoring click http://www.lpgascoring.com/public/Leaderboard.aspx
eGOLF PROFESSIONAL TOUR:
Forest Oaks Open,
Wednesday-Friday,
Forest Oaks Country Club,
Greensboro, N.C.
Canadians Cam Burke +2 MC, Zack Schnurr +5 MC Ryan Terdik +18 MC
Final
After 3 frigid rounds at Forest Oaks Country Club – 30-year site of the PGA TOUR’s Wyndham Championship – Jonathan Fricke of Covington shot a brilliant -7 65 -14 to win by 4 shots over Peter Malnati of Dandridge -3 69 -10
live scoreboard click http://tarheel.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/tarheel12/event/tarheel1224/contest/1/leaderboard.htm
LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR
Sanya Ladies Open,
Yalong Bay Golf Club,
Sanya, China.
Canadians None
Round 3 wrap
Cassandra Kirkland of France came from a stroke behind to claim her first professional title at the Sanya Ladies Open in China.
The 28-year-old from Paris held off stiff opposition to post a final round 70 on a hot and breezy final day at Yalong Bay Golf Club.
She ended two strokes clear of fellow Frenchwoman Jade Schaeffer and England’s Holly Aitchison, with a further nine players a stroke back in a tie for fourth.
live scoring click http://www.letscoring.com/teetimes/56832
Bryan Angus also on twitter@mummmbles and on www.isr1050.com and broadcasting daily 7-9am and writing at http://nssradiotv.com
(notes from pgatour.com, europeantour.com, egolfprofessionaltour.com, usatoday.com)
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Rory next to join Nike
Doug Ferguson AP
Rory McIlroy is officially a free agent when it comes to golf equipment.
McIlroy and Acushnet Co., which has supplied the 23-year-old star from Northern Ireland with Titleist and FootJoy gear since he turned pro five years ago, said Tuesday they will not extend their relationship after this year.
The announcement allows McIlroy to pursue a lucrative endorsement contract, with strong indications that he will sign with Nike in a deal that one industry observer estimated at $20 million a year. That would give Nike golf's two biggest stars in McIlroy and Tiger Woods, who has been with the swoosh since he turned pro in 1996.
McIlroy has established himself as the No. 1 player in the world this year, when he won four times and captured the PGA Championship at Kiawah, giving him eight-shot wins in two major championships. He won the PGA Tour money title, and is closing in on winning the European Tour money title.
This is the second time in the last 10 years that Acushnet, which has a history of fiscal prudence, has not stood in the way of a No. 1 player going after big money. Woods, who had an equipment deal with Titleist when he turned pro, left for the Nike golf ball in 2000 and then the Nike golf clubs in 2002.
Phil Mickelson won his first Masters with Titleist in 2004, and the Fairhaven, Mass., company let him out of his contract later that summer to sign a lucrative deal with Callaway.
“Our goal has been to provide Rory with the best equipment and service that would help him be the best player he could possibly be,” Acushnet chief executive Wally Uihlein said in a statement. “He has been a great ambassador for the Titleist and FootJoy brands, and in turn, we are proud of how our equipment has contributed to his success. We wish Rory all the best, both personally and professionally, going forward.”
McIlroy, who defeated Woods in an 18-hole exhibition in China on Monday, thanked the Acushnet staff for “five very exciting and successful years.”
“I will always appreciate the contribution Titleist has made in helping me become the player I am today,” McIlroy said.
Not since Woods has a player had this much potential at such a young age. McIlroy was 19 when he won the Dubai Desert Classic for his first win as a pro, and he followed that with a 62 in the final round to win at Quail Hollow for his first PGA Tour win.
McIlroy shattered U.S. Open scoring records last summer at Congressional to win by eight shots, and when he won his second major at Kiawah Island in August, he became the youngest player since Seve Ballesteros in 1980 with two majors. Only five players have won majors by at least eight shots since 1976 — three by Woods, two by McIlroy.
They have become friends in recent months. They were in the same group five times during the FedEx Cup playoffs, and the conversation came easily. That led to the 18-hole exhibition on Monday, the first time Woods has agreed to a head-to-head match since the old “Battle at Bighorn” days against Sergio Garcia. McIlroy won by one. Walking off the fourth hole, McIlroy even took one of Woods' Nike clubs and took a few practice swings.
Now, it appears likely both will be using the same equipment next year.
“We are declining comment on rumors and speculation,” Nike spokeswoman Beth Gast said.
McIlroy is not playing the HSBC Champions this week in China. He will close out his European Tour season starting the following week with the Singapore Open, the Hong Kong Open and the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. He would have two months until his next tournament in Abu Dhabi, giving him time to test new equipment.
McIlroy has gone through a series of changes since winning his first major last summer at Congressional. He left agent Chubby Chandler a year ago and signed with Conor Ridge of Irish-based Horizon Sports Management. He took up membership on the PGA Tour, where he is a lock to be voted player of the year. Changing the very tools he uses will be the biggest change of all.
Still to be determined is how any deal with Nike would affect the rest of McIlroy's deals. He has endorsements with Jumeirah Estates, Oakley, Audemares Piguet and Santander bank. Nike typically prefers a clean look for its athletes, with rare exception. Woods and Anthony Kim had separate endorsements for their golf bags.
Even as McIlroy was getting courted by other companies, Titleist did not put up a big fight. The company has a history of putting the brand before the player, as it did with Woods, Mickelson, David Duval after he reached No. 1 in the world and Sergio Garcia.
It prides itself on having the most tour players use its golf ball, though it also has some 80 players around the world under contract to use its golf balls and golf clubs. This year might have been particularly costly, however, especially with incentive clauses in the contracts. It had six players from the top 16 in the world as full staff players — McIlroy, Adam Scott, U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson, Jason Dufner, Steve Stricker and Nick Watney
McIlroy and Acushnet Co., which has supplied the 23-year-old star from Northern Ireland with Titleist and FootJoy gear since he turned pro five years ago, said Tuesday they will not extend their relationship after this year.
The announcement allows McIlroy to pursue a lucrative endorsement contract, with strong indications that he will sign with Nike in a deal that one industry observer estimated at $20 million a year. That would give Nike golf's two biggest stars in McIlroy and Tiger Woods, who has been with the swoosh since he turned pro in 1996.
McIlroy has established himself as the No. 1 player in the world this year, when he won four times and captured the PGA Championship at Kiawah, giving him eight-shot wins in two major championships. He won the PGA Tour money title, and is closing in on winning the European Tour money title.
This is the second time in the last 10 years that Acushnet, which has a history of fiscal prudence, has not stood in the way of a No. 1 player going after big money. Woods, who had an equipment deal with Titleist when he turned pro, left for the Nike golf ball in 2000 and then the Nike golf clubs in 2002.
Phil Mickelson won his first Masters with Titleist in 2004, and the Fairhaven, Mass., company let him out of his contract later that summer to sign a lucrative deal with Callaway.
“Our goal has been to provide Rory with the best equipment and service that would help him be the best player he could possibly be,” Acushnet chief executive Wally Uihlein said in a statement. “He has been a great ambassador for the Titleist and FootJoy brands, and in turn, we are proud of how our equipment has contributed to his success. We wish Rory all the best, both personally and professionally, going forward.”
McIlroy, who defeated Woods in an 18-hole exhibition in China on Monday, thanked the Acushnet staff for “five very exciting and successful years.”
“I will always appreciate the contribution Titleist has made in helping me become the player I am today,” McIlroy said.
Not since Woods has a player had this much potential at such a young age. McIlroy was 19 when he won the Dubai Desert Classic for his first win as a pro, and he followed that with a 62 in the final round to win at Quail Hollow for his first PGA Tour win.
McIlroy shattered U.S. Open scoring records last summer at Congressional to win by eight shots, and when he won his second major at Kiawah Island in August, he became the youngest player since Seve Ballesteros in 1980 with two majors. Only five players have won majors by at least eight shots since 1976 — three by Woods, two by McIlroy.
They have become friends in recent months. They were in the same group five times during the FedEx Cup playoffs, and the conversation came easily. That led to the 18-hole exhibition on Monday, the first time Woods has agreed to a head-to-head match since the old “Battle at Bighorn” days against Sergio Garcia. McIlroy won by one. Walking off the fourth hole, McIlroy even took one of Woods' Nike clubs and took a few practice swings.
Now, it appears likely both will be using the same equipment next year.
“We are declining comment on rumors and speculation,” Nike spokeswoman Beth Gast said.
McIlroy is not playing the HSBC Champions this week in China. He will close out his European Tour season starting the following week with the Singapore Open, the Hong Kong Open and the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. He would have two months until his next tournament in Abu Dhabi, giving him time to test new equipment.
McIlroy has gone through a series of changes since winning his first major last summer at Congressional. He left agent Chubby Chandler a year ago and signed with Conor Ridge of Irish-based Horizon Sports Management. He took up membership on the PGA Tour, where he is a lock to be voted player of the year. Changing the very tools he uses will be the biggest change of all.
Still to be determined is how any deal with Nike would affect the rest of McIlroy's deals. He has endorsements with Jumeirah Estates, Oakley, Audemares Piguet and Santander bank. Nike typically prefers a clean look for its athletes, with rare exception. Woods and Anthony Kim had separate endorsements for their golf bags.
Even as McIlroy was getting courted by other companies, Titleist did not put up a big fight. The company has a history of putting the brand before the player, as it did with Woods, Mickelson, David Duval after he reached No. 1 in the world and Sergio Garcia.
It prides itself on having the most tour players use its golf ball, though it also has some 80 players around the world under contract to use its golf balls and golf clubs. This year might have been particularly costly, however, especially with incentive clauses in the contracts. It had six players from the top 16 in the world as full staff players — McIlroy, Adam Scott, U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson, Jason Dufner, Steve Stricker and Nick Watney
Ottawa Senators sign a new player !!
NHL lockout be damned, the Ottawa Senators have gone ahead and signed a elite player...
Brad Fritsch who grew up in Manotick, just outside Ottawa who has just won his PGA Tour card for 2013 is now sponsored by the team !
"We want to congratulate Brad on achieving his goal and earning his PGA Tour card," Senators vice-president of marketing Jeff Kyle said in a statement. "We entered into this partnership with Brad because we believe that many of his best qualities, including his dedication and perseverance, reflect much of what the Ottawa Senators organization is all about."
Brad will wear the Ottawa Senators logo on his shirts and bag, and in return he will be financially supported by the team and will attend functions on their behalf.
Brad will start his first year on the big tour in Hawaii in January.
Bryan Angus also on twitter@mummmbles and at www.isr1050.com and broadcasting daily at http://nssradiotv.com
Brad Fritsch who grew up in Manotick, just outside Ottawa who has just won his PGA Tour card for 2013 is now sponsored by the team !
"We want to congratulate Brad on achieving his goal and earning his PGA Tour card," Senators vice-president of marketing Jeff Kyle said in a statement. "We entered into this partnership with Brad because we believe that many of his best qualities, including his dedication and perseverance, reflect much of what the Ottawa Senators organization is all about."
Brad will wear the Ottawa Senators logo on his shirts and bag, and in return he will be financially supported by the team and will attend functions on their behalf.
Brad will start his first year on the big tour in Hawaii in January.
Bryan Angus also on twitter@mummmbles and at www.isr1050.com and broadcasting daily at http://nssradiotv.com
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Live scoreboard links to Golf around the world... Fritsch wins PGA Tour card
PGA Tour CIMB Classic at The Mines Resort in Selangor, Malaysia
tee times http://tourreport.pgatour.com/2012/10/24/tee-times-for-first-round/
live scoring http://www.asiantour.com/teetimes.aspx?mat_caption=Round
Round 4 wrap
pgatour.com Nick Watney missed a chance for a 59 on Sunday in his CIMB Classic victory, closing with a bogey for a course-record 10-under 61 at The MINES Resort & Golf Club.
Needing a birdie on the par-4 18th for a 59, Watney drove into the left rough, failed to reach the green with his approach and left his long birdie pitch just short of the putting surface.
The American finished at 22-under 262 and earned $1,098,000 in the unofficial PGA TOUR event. The tournament will become a full-fledged PGA TOUR event next year when the TOUR begins its new season in October after the FedExCup Playoffs.
Defending champion Bo Van Pelt and Robert Garrigus tied for second, a stroke back. Needing a birdie on 18 to force a playoff, Van Pelt saved par for a 66. On Saturday, needing a closing birdie for a 59, he made a double bogey for a 62.
Garrigus also finished with a 66 in the official Asian Tour event.
Tiger Woods shot a 63 to tie for fourth at 19 under with Chris Kirk and Zimbabwe's Brendon de Jonge. Kirk shot 67, and de Jonge had a 66.
It was 100 +F in the shade, sickeningly humid on a resort course, playing lift clean and place and as a result it was no challenge for most of the 48 pro's who agreed to show up for this exhibition event..
WEB.COM Tour Web.com Tour Championship at TPC Craig Ranch McKinney, Texas
http://www.pgatour.com/h/leaderboard/
Brad Fritsch T9 -8 65,71,71,69 Adam Hadwin T3 -13 69,69.68,65 Richard Scott T55 +5 72,74 74,69
For the final T25 http://www.pgatour.com/2012/tournaments/h045/10/28/final25/index.html
Round 4 wrap
pgatour.com
Justin Bolli closed with a 6-under 65 on Sunday to win the Web.com Tour Championship, making him one of three players who moved into the top 25 on the money list to earn a PGA TOUR card for next season.
Bolli was No. 44 on the money list going into the Web.com Tour's final event of the year. He earned $180,000 to move to No. 9 with his two-shot victory over James Hahn, who birdied the last hole for a 69. The top 25 on the money list earned PGA TOUR cards
Adam Hadwin closed with a 65, getting up-and-down from behind the green on the par-5 18th at the TPC Craig Ranch for one last birdie. He was projected to go from No. 48 to No. 25 on the money list and earn his tour card if he stayed in a three-way tie for second with Hahn and Morgan Hoffman, who closed with a 64.
Hahn's second shot into the 18th went well right of the green and onto a cart path. He took a free drop, and then lofted a chip that stopped just inside 3 feet away. Hahn knocked in the short birdie putt to finish in second place by himself. Hadwin, who would have made $74,667 for a three-way tie for second, earned $58,000 for his two-way tie for third. The difference was enough to allow Jim Herman to finish 25th on the money list.
Brad Fritsch finished T9 however and does win his card for next year..finishes 18th
CHAMPIONS Tour AT&T Championship TPC San Antonio, ATT Canyons, San Antonio, Texas
http://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/s530/tee-times.html
Jim Rutledge T72 79,77,72 +13 Rod Spittle T56 79,75,70 +8
pgatour.com When David Frost holed a 20-foot putt for a par at No. 11 and then saved par with a 30-foot putt at No. 14, he thought today just might be his day. And after watching Bernhard Langer lip out his birdie putt from 10 feet on the first playoff hole, David Frost was right.
The South African holed a nine-foot birdie putt on the second hole of overtime to win the AT&T Championship at -8 208.
The two played together all three days and once Mark Calcavecchia, the tournament's 18- and 36- hole leader started to falter, it became a two-man duel midway on the back nine. Frost hit an 8-iron approach shot to within two feet of the 17thhole and tapped in for birdie to tie Langer who had taken the lead with birdie at No. 14.
Langer forced the overtime session by getting up and down from the greenside bunker at No. 18, holing a clutch seven-foot par putt. "I certainly didn't expect this," Frost said afterward. "I really relied on my putter today but I didn't expect Bernhard to miss on that first playoff hole. He's one of the best out here from 10 feet and in.".
Frost's six-stroke comeback is the largest in tournament history, surpassing Phil Blackmar's win in 2009 at Oak Hills when he came from five strokes back
EUROPEAN Tour BMW Masters, Lake Malaran GC, Shanghai China http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2012/tournamentid=2012082/leaderboard/index.html
Round 4 wrap
europeantour. Peter Hanson held off a magnificent late charge from Rory McIlroy to claim the biggest win of his career at BMW Masters in Shanghai.
The Swede beat the World Number One by a single shot after both hit closing rounds of 67 – but that barely told the story of a rollercoaster final round at Lake Malaren.
One ahead of McIlroy overnight, the 35 year old's sixth European Tour victory looked certain when he went four clear.
However, a thrilling finish materialised when McIlroy eagled the 15th, birdied the next to narrow the gap to two and then saw Hanson find sand at the short 17th.
The World Number 25 saved par from 15 feet, but still had a scary moment when his approach to the last came down in the bank of a bunker.
After being refused relief for a plugged lie, he did well to chip to ten feet and two putts for bogey and a 21 under par total were good enough after McIlroy had just missed his 15 foot birdie attempt from the back fringe.
EUROPEAN Challenge Tour Apulia San Domenico Grand Final, Savilletri, Italy
http://www.europeantour.com/challengetour/season=2012/tournamentid=2012780/leaderboard/index.html?showLeaderboard=Y
Round 4 wrap
Norwegian Espen Kofstad won the Apulia San Domenico Grand Final and with it was crowned Challenge Tour Number One with a superb performance in the season finale.
The 25 year old finished with a four under par 67 for a one shot victory over Dane Joachim B Hansen, who led for most of the day, and England’s James Busby, who was the 45th and final player to qualify for the event but signed off with a 66 to rise to 16th in the Rankings and earn a European Tour card for next season
LPGA Tour Sunrise LPGA Taiwan Championship, Taiwa
Round 4 wrap
Suzann Pettersen 69 -19 has won, after the just completed final round at the Sunrise LPGA Taiwan Championship. Inbee Park 74 -16 was second.
Taiwan native Yani Tseng (@YaniTseng), who won the inaugural event here last year, was third at -15.
Taiwan native Yani Tseng (@YaniTseng), who won the inaugural event here last year, was third at -15.
Bryan Angus
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Rory in Shanghai, Tiger in Malaysia this week..
Rory McIlroy has 4 official events coming up in the next 5 weeks as he tries to emulate his Ryder Cup colleague Luke Donald and win the money title on both sides of the Atlantic..
The Race to Dubai is in the stretch run starting with 2 big events in China...
First the strongest field assembled in Asia this year will be out to get its hands on a prestigious new title when the BMW Masters makes its debut from October 25-28.
Four of the top five players in the Official World Golf Ranking will be in action at Lake Malaren Golf Club, along with all but one of the victorious European Ryder Cup team, including Captain José María Olazábal. Among this world-class field are four players who are not only vying for the winner’s cheque of US$1.16 million (from a total prize purse of US$7 million, but are trying for a BMW double..
All the 2012 BMW title-holders will tee off in Shanghai: Rory McIlroy (BMW Championship, US PGA Tour), Luke Donald (BMW PGA Championship, The European Tour), Danny Willett (BMW International Open, The European Tour) and Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño (BMW Italian Open, The European Tour).
For tee times click http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2012/tournamentid=2012082/teetimes/index.html
Next week the field moves to the WGC HSBC Champions where England’s Justin Rose heads the list of in-form 2012 Ryder Cup stars from October 29-November 4 at Mission Hills Guangdong, China, on the Olazábal Course where he will be joined by 9 of his Ryder Cup colleagues.
Phil Mickelson heads the charge of US Ryder Cup players with a point to prove and is joined by 2012 FedExCup Champion, Brandt Snedeker, Zurich Classic of New Orleans Champion, Jason Dufner, WGC Bridgestone Invitational winner, Keegan Bradley, Masters Champion, Bubba Watson and World Number 13, Dustin Johnson.
No Rory or Tiger though..
McIlroy and Woods, Nos. 1 and 3 in the world ranking, respectively, are set to play in a one-day Duel at Jinsha Lake exhibition in China on Oct. 29 The Duel will be held in Zhengzhou, the capital of the central province of Henan.
Not surprisingly, the timing of the event worked out with each of their schedules. The Duel will be held the Monday after both the CIMB Classic in Malaysia (an event Woods already has committed to play) and the BMW Masters in Shanghai for Rory then he misses the WGC but will play in Singapore, Hong Kong before wrapping his year in Dubai,,
I can only assume Tiger is getting a ton of appearance money to play in this unofficial CIMB Classic and of course there is the matter of the $6.1 million purse (divided among only 48 players) and the $1.3 million that goes to the winner.
The no-cut event in Kuala Lumpur is a third-year tournament. Woods and Jason Dufner are the only top-10 players in the world entered. Just eight of the top 50 in the world are participating, including defending champion Bo Van Pelt, who is coming off a victory in Australia.
The field is derived mostly from the final 2012 FedEx Cup points list, with 10 spots reserved for the top finishers on the Asian Tour's order of merit.
After the exhibition on Monday 29th in China with Rory, Woods will not play again until his World Challenge event that starts Nov. 29
After the two tournaments in China, the European schedule has four events remaining, the Barclays Singapore Open, the UBS Hong Kong Open, the SA Open Championship (in South Africa) and the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai where the Race to Dubai culminates for the top 60 players on the money list.
Bryan Angus also on twitter@mummmbles and at www.isr1050.com and broadcasting daily 7-9am at http://nssradiotv.com
The Race to Dubai is in the stretch run starting with 2 big events in China...
First the strongest field assembled in Asia this year will be out to get its hands on a prestigious new title when the BMW Masters makes its debut from October 25-28.
Four of the top five players in the Official World Golf Ranking will be in action at Lake Malaren Golf Club, along with all but one of the victorious European Ryder Cup team, including Captain José María Olazábal. Among this world-class field are four players who are not only vying for the winner’s cheque of US$1.16 million (from a total prize purse of US$7 million, but are trying for a BMW double..
All the 2012 BMW title-holders will tee off in Shanghai: Rory McIlroy (BMW Championship, US PGA Tour), Luke Donald (BMW PGA Championship, The European Tour), Danny Willett (BMW International Open, The European Tour) and Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño (BMW Italian Open, The European Tour).
For tee times click http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2012/tournamentid=2012082/teetimes/index.html
Next week the field moves to the WGC HSBC Champions where England’s Justin Rose heads the list of in-form 2012 Ryder Cup stars from October 29-November 4 at Mission Hills Guangdong, China, on the Olazábal Course where he will be joined by 9 of his Ryder Cup colleagues.
Phil Mickelson heads the charge of US Ryder Cup players with a point to prove and is joined by 2012 FedExCup Champion, Brandt Snedeker, Zurich Classic of New Orleans Champion, Jason Dufner, WGC Bridgestone Invitational winner, Keegan Bradley, Masters Champion, Bubba Watson and World Number 13, Dustin Johnson.
No Rory or Tiger though..
McIlroy and Woods, Nos. 1 and 3 in the world ranking, respectively, are set to play in a one-day Duel at Jinsha Lake exhibition in China on Oct. 29 The Duel will be held in Zhengzhou, the capital of the central province of Henan.
Not surprisingly, the timing of the event worked out with each of their schedules. The Duel will be held the Monday after both the CIMB Classic in Malaysia (an event Woods already has committed to play) and the BMW Masters in Shanghai for Rory then he misses the WGC but will play in Singapore, Hong Kong before wrapping his year in Dubai,,
I can only assume Tiger is getting a ton of appearance money to play in this unofficial CIMB Classic and of course there is the matter of the $6.1 million purse (divided among only 48 players) and the $1.3 million that goes to the winner.
The no-cut event in Kuala Lumpur is a third-year tournament. Woods and Jason Dufner are the only top-10 players in the world entered. Just eight of the top 50 in the world are participating, including defending champion Bo Van Pelt, who is coming off a victory in Australia.
The field is derived mostly from the final 2012 FedEx Cup points list, with 10 spots reserved for the top finishers on the Asian Tour's order of merit.
After the exhibition on Monday 29th in China with Rory, Woods will not play again until his World Challenge event that starts Nov. 29
After the two tournaments in China, the European schedule has four events remaining, the Barclays Singapore Open, the UBS Hong Kong Open, the SA Open Championship (in South Africa) and the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai where the Race to Dubai culminates for the top 60 players on the money list.
Bryan Angus also on twitter@mummmbles and at www.isr1050.com and broadcasting daily 7-9am at http://nssradiotv.com
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Sunday.. The Final Rounds..Bo Van Pelt wins in Australia...Gainey wins the McGladery
This week in golf has been dominated by Q school results and the news that the Canadian Tour will be known as PGA Tour Canada as of next year there is still a lot of important golf to be decided as we head into final rounds around the world on Sunday..
Here are the stories and live scoring links to them all//
PGA Tour
McGladrey Classic
Seaside Course
Sea Island, Georgia
pgatour.com Winning on the PGA TOUR is what Tommy Gainey dreamed about when he held a job wrapping insulation around hot water tanks, when he was playing more mini-tours than he can remember, when he was taking part in a Golf Channel reality series where he was best known as the guy wearing two gloves
Seven shots behind going into the final round of the McGladrey Classic, Gainey came within one putt of a 59, and then had to wait more than two hours as David Toms, Jim Furyk and tournament host Davis Love III -- who have combined for 49 wins, three majors and 17 Ryder Cup teams -- tried to catch him. None of them could.
Gainey broke the course record at Sea Island with a 10-under 60, which carried him to a one-shot win over Toms. He became the fourth player this year to rally from at least seven shots in the final round to win, helped by seven straight 3s on his card on the back nine
David Hearn T51 -4 66 71 71 68 and Stephen Ames MC
live scoring click http://www.pgatour.com/r/leaderboard/
WEB.COM Tour
Winn Dixie Jacksonvillle Open
Valley Course
Jacksonville, Florida
pgatour.com All it took was a par on the first playoff hole at Dye's Valley Course for Russell Henley to capture his second victory of the year on the Web.com Tour at the Winn Dixie Jacksonville Open presented by Planters.
B.J. Staten, the third round leader, made a costly double bogey on the first playoff hole and had to settle for second place.
Finishing two-shots back in third was Ben Martin and in fourth, four back was Aaron Watkins
Brad Fritsch, currently #21 on the money list T10 -1 68 70 70 71, Adam Hadwin T30 +2 and Stuart Anderson T51 +7..... Other Canadians... Richard Scott T60 +10..... Bryan DeCorso T57 +9
http://www.pgatour.com/leaderboards/current/h102/
Top 25 click http://www.pgatour.com/h/stats/info/?109
CHAMPIONS Tour
Q School Regional Results
Orlando http://www.pgatour.com/2012/s/10/16/qschool-orlando/index.html#
California http://www.pgatour.com/2012/s/10/16/qschool-california/index.html
EUROPEAN Tour
ISPS Handa Perth International
Lake Karrinyup GC
Perth, Australia
Bo Van Pelt wins in Perth
europeantour.com Bo Van Pelt came out on top of an all-American battle with Jason Dufner to win the ISPS HANDA Perth International at Lake Karrinyup.
Having snatched the lead with a 60 foot putt on the final green at the end of the third round, the 37 year old was never caught on the last day.
A four under par 68 gave Van Pelt a 16 under total and left him two clear of Dufner, with first round leader Alejandro Cañizares of Spain coming through to take third on 11 under
live scoring click http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2012/tournamentid=2012080/leaderboard/index.html
EUROPEAN CHALLENGE Tour
Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Challenge
Royal GC
Copenhagen, Denmark
europeantour.com ...
live scoring click... http://www.europeantour.com/challengetour/season=2012/tournamentid=2012778/leaderboard/index.html?showLeaderboard=Y
LPGA Tour
LPGA KEB HanaBank Championship
Incheon,South Korea
Suzann Pettersen (@suzannpettersen) held off a spirited final-round charge by Catriona Matthew to win the 2012 LPGA KEB·HanaBank Championship (@hanabankgolf). Pettersen sank a five-foot birdie putt on the third playoff hole on No. 18 to clinch her ninth-career victory.
Pettersen shot the worst round of her week by six shots on Sunday but was able to keep her composure to outlast Matthew in 21 holes. She posted three birdies, one bogey and two double bogeys for a 2-over 74, finishing 11-under par. Matthew started the day seven shots off the lead and carded six birdies and one bogey to force the playoff. Yani Tseng (@YaniTseng) finished third at 10-under par and recorded her first top-10 finish in 13 starts
http://www.lpgascoring.com/public/leaderboard.aspx?
Bryan Angus also on twitter@mummmbles and on www.isr1050.com and broadcasting daily 7-9am at http://nssradiotv.com
Here are the stories and live scoring links to them all//
PGA Tour
McGladrey Classic
Seaside Course
Sea Island, Georgia
pgatour.com Winning on the PGA TOUR is what Tommy Gainey dreamed about when he held a job wrapping insulation around hot water tanks, when he was playing more mini-tours than he can remember, when he was taking part in a Golf Channel reality series where he was best known as the guy wearing two gloves
Seven shots behind going into the final round of the McGladrey Classic, Gainey came within one putt of a 59, and then had to wait more than two hours as David Toms, Jim Furyk and tournament host Davis Love III -- who have combined for 49 wins, three majors and 17 Ryder Cup teams -- tried to catch him. None of them could.
Gainey broke the course record at Sea Island with a 10-under 60, which carried him to a one-shot win over Toms. He became the fourth player this year to rally from at least seven shots in the final round to win, helped by seven straight 3s on his card on the back nine
David Hearn T51 -4 66 71 71 68 and Stephen Ames MC
live scoring click http://www.pgatour.com/r/leaderboard/
WEB.COM Tour
Winn Dixie Jacksonvillle Open
Valley Course
Jacksonville, Florida
pgatour.com All it took was a par on the first playoff hole at Dye's Valley Course for Russell Henley to capture his second victory of the year on the Web.com Tour at the Winn Dixie Jacksonville Open presented by Planters.
B.J. Staten, the third round leader, made a costly double bogey on the first playoff hole and had to settle for second place.
Finishing two-shots back in third was Ben Martin and in fourth, four back was Aaron Watkins
Brad Fritsch, currently #21 on the money list T10 -1 68 70 70 71, Adam Hadwin T30 +2 and Stuart Anderson T51 +7..... Other Canadians... Richard Scott T60 +10..... Bryan DeCorso T57 +9
http://www.pgatour.com/leaderboards/current/h102/
Top 25 click http://www.pgatour.com/h/stats/info/?109
CHAMPIONS Tour
Q School Regional Results
Orlando http://www.pgatour.com/2012/s/10/16/qschool-orlando/index.html#
California http://www.pgatour.com/2012/s/10/16/qschool-california/index.html
EUROPEAN Tour
ISPS Handa Perth International
Lake Karrinyup GC
Perth, Australia
Bo Van Pelt wins in Perth
europeantour.com Bo Van Pelt came out on top of an all-American battle with Jason Dufner to win the ISPS HANDA Perth International at Lake Karrinyup.
Having snatched the lead with a 60 foot putt on the final green at the end of the third round, the 37 year old was never caught on the last day.
A four under par 68 gave Van Pelt a 16 under total and left him two clear of Dufner, with first round leader Alejandro Cañizares of Spain coming through to take third on 11 under
live scoring click http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2012/tournamentid=2012080/leaderboard/index.html
EUROPEAN CHALLENGE Tour
Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Challenge
Royal GC
Copenhagen, Denmark
europeantour.com ...
Brilliant Broberg wins again
Kristoffer Broberg’s sensational Challenge Tour season continued with victory in the Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Challenge hosted by Royal Golf Club, where he claimed his fourth title in six appearances.
The Swede seemingly appeared from nowhere midway through the season, winning three times in four weeks in August to earn instant promotion to The European Tour, and upon returning to Challenge Tour duty this week, rose to the top of the Rankings with another hugely impressive win.
A four under par 67 in the final round in Denmark was enough to seal a three stroke victory from Englishman Simon Wakefield, who finished with a 68. It was a two-horse race for most of the final day, leaving Daniel Brooks of England to share third place with Finland’s Mikko Korhonen. .
live scoring click... http://www.europeantour.com/challengetour/season=2012/tournamentid=2012778/leaderboard/index.html?showLeaderboard=Y
LPGA Tour
LPGA KEB HanaBank Championship
Incheon,South Korea
Suzann Pettersen (@suzannpettersen) held off a spirited final-round charge by Catriona Matthew to win the 2012 LPGA KEB·HanaBank Championship (@hanabankgolf). Pettersen sank a five-foot birdie putt on the third playoff hole on No. 18 to clinch her ninth-career victory.
Pettersen shot the worst round of her week by six shots on Sunday but was able to keep her composure to outlast Matthew in 21 holes. She posted three birdies, one bogey and two double bogeys for a 2-over 74, finishing 11-under par. Matthew started the day seven shots off the lead and carded six birdies and one bogey to force the playoff. Yani Tseng (@YaniTseng) finished third at 10-under par and recorded her first top-10 finish in 13 starts
http://www.lpgascoring.com/public/leaderboard.aspx?
Bryan Angus also on twitter@mummmbles and on www.isr1050.com and broadcasting daily 7-9am at http://nssradiotv.com
Monday, October 15, 2012
Q School.. Final Results follow the Canadians here..
This is the last year for Q school as it exists. Next year there will be 25 spots from the top 25 on the Web.com tour and another 25 from a series of fall tournaments on the PGA Tour.
So this is the last chance for someone from the Canadian Tour going straight to the PGA Tour through Q school.
Here are the final results... Stage 2 gets underway November 13 at 3 course and November 14 at another 3.
The finals are November 28 - Dec 3 in La Quinta California over 6 rounds.
Here are the links, all Tuesday Oct 16-19
19 qualify No Canucks made it.. Cam Burke and Mackenzie Hughes missed by a shot !!!
The Club at Irish Creek, Kannapolis NC Derek Gillespie T25 -3 75,69,71, 66 MacKenzie Hughes T21 -6 69,69,71,71 Cam Burke T21 -470,71,72,67
http://pgatq.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/pgatq12/event/pgatq1210/contest/1/leaderboard.htm
19 qualify David Byrne is through to 2nd stage
Grasslands G&CC, Lakeland, Florida David Byrne T7 -15 67,68,68,70 Victor Ciesielski T24 -10 73, 67,68 , 70 Chris Ross T56 -3 70, 73,70,72
http://pgatq.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/pgatq12/event/pgatq1213/contest/1/leaderboard.htm
18 qualify and both James Love and Adam Cornelson go through to 2nd stage
Latana GC, Latana Texas Adam Cornelson T18 -4 73,69,71,70 James Love T7 -8 70, 72,69,69
http://pgatq.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/pgatq12/event/pgatq1214/contest/1/leaderboard.htm
19 qualify and both Ryan Yip and Eugene Wong go through to 2nd stage
Dayton Valley GC, Dayton Nevada Ryan Yip T17 -5 70 73 67 72 Eugene Wong T14 -6 70 70 70 72
http://pgatq.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/pgatq12/event/pgatq1211/contest/1/leaderboard.htm
18 qualify.. No Canadians
Classic Club, Palm Desert California Matt Daniel WD +4 71 73 76 Tyler Mancini T47 +5 76 74 70 73 James Allenby T27 -2 75 73 70 68 Danny Sahl T42 +3 71,77,71 72 Louis-Pierre Godin T52 +6 71 78 72 73 Kent Eger T64 +12 70 79 72 79
http://pgatq.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/pgatq12/event/pgatq1212/contest/1/leaderboard.htm
Ted Brown has qualified for Stage 2 T16 -3 73
Lake Caroline GC, Madison MS...Nick Kenney T61 +16 76 73,72, 75 Ted Brown T16 -6 67 70 67,73
http://pgatq.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/pgatq12/event/pgatq1232/contest/1/leaderboard.htm
Bryan Angus also on twitter@mummmbles and on www.isr1050.com and broadcasting daily 7-9am at http://nssradiotv.com
So this is the last chance for someone from the Canadian Tour going straight to the PGA Tour through Q school.
Here are the final results... Stage 2 gets underway November 13 at 3 course and November 14 at another 3.
The finals are November 28 - Dec 3 in La Quinta California over 6 rounds.
Here are the links, all Tuesday Oct 16-19
19 qualify No Canucks made it.. Cam Burke and Mackenzie Hughes missed by a shot !!!
The Club at Irish Creek, Kannapolis NC Derek Gillespie T25 -3 75,69,71, 66 MacKenzie Hughes T21 -6 69,69,71,71 Cam Burke T21 -470,71,72,67
http://pgatq.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/pgatq12/event/pgatq1210/contest/1/leaderboard.htm
19 qualify David Byrne is through to 2nd stage
Grasslands G&CC, Lakeland, Florida David Byrne T7 -15 67,68,68,70 Victor Ciesielski T24 -10 73, 67,68 , 70 Chris Ross T56 -3 70, 73,70,72
http://pgatq.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/pgatq12/event/pgatq1213/contest/1/leaderboard.htm
18 qualify and both James Love and Adam Cornelson go through to 2nd stage
Latana GC, Latana Texas Adam Cornelson T18 -4 73,69,71,70 James Love T7 -8 70, 72,69,69
http://pgatq.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/pgatq12/event/pgatq1214/contest/1/leaderboard.htm
19 qualify and both Ryan Yip and Eugene Wong go through to 2nd stage
Dayton Valley GC, Dayton Nevada Ryan Yip T17 -5 70 73 67 72 Eugene Wong T14 -6 70 70 70 72
http://pgatq.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/pgatq12/event/pgatq1211/contest/1/leaderboard.htm
18 qualify.. No Canadians
Classic Club, Palm Desert California Matt Daniel WD +4 71 73 76 Tyler Mancini T47 +5 76 74 70 73 James Allenby T27 -2 75 73 70 68 Danny Sahl T42 +3 71,77,71 72 Louis-Pierre Godin T52 +6 71 78 72 73 Kent Eger T64 +12 70 79 72 79
http://pgatq.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/pgatq12/event/pgatq1212/contest/1/leaderboard.htm
Ted Brown has qualified for Stage 2 T16 -3 73
Lake Caroline GC, Madison MS...Nick Kenney T61 +16 76 73,72, 75 Ted Brown T16 -6 67 70 67,73
http://pgatq.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/pgatq12/event/pgatq1232/contest/1/leaderboard.htm
Bryan Angus also on twitter@mummmbles and on www.isr1050.com and broadcasting daily 7-9am at http://nssradiotv.com
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Golf this week..Sweden's Jonas Blixt wins PGA tour at Fry's... live scoring all tours
Mike Weir was a part of another full slate of golf all around the world this week that includes the little junket to Turkey that has Tiger, Rory etal playing for $1.5 and a whack of appearance money
Justin Rose (66), world #5 beat Lee Westwood (67) #4 to win the so called World Golf Final and the $1.5m first prize. He won all 5 matches he played. Westwood gets $1m for losing the final.
McIlroy and the rest will play in a Saturday afternoon pro-am, and the course and country have been granted a European Tour event in 2013, the Turkish Open..
PGA Tour
Frys.com Open
San Martin, Calif.
CordeValle Golf Club (7,368 yards, par 71).
Canadians.. Mike Weir MC E 71 71, Stephen Ames T64 -1 71,68,73,73 Matt McQuillan MC 73,78 Matt Hill MC 70,73 David Hearn MC 70,73
live scoring click http://www.pgatour.com/r/leaderboard/
Round 4 wrap
pgatour.com The third PGA TOUR rookie to win this season, Sweden's Jonas Blixt holed a 4-foot par putt on the final hole for a 3-under 68 and a one-stroke victory in the Fall Series event at CordeValle. He earned $900,000 and a tour exemption through the 2014 season
Tim Petrovic and Jason Kokrak tied for second. Petrovic had a 64, and Kokrak shot a 68.
Third-round leader John Mallinger had a 72 to tie for fourth at 14 under with Jimmy Walker, Vijay Singh and Alexandre Rocha. Walker closed with a 62, and Singh and Rocha shot 68
WEB.COM Tour
Miccosukee Championship
Miami, Miccosukee Golf and Country Club (7,200 yards, par 71).
Canadians.. James Love T45 68,72,74.75 +5 Brad Fritsch MC 70 76, Adam Hadwin MC 75 71, Richard Scott T45 71 72 75.71 +5, David Morland MC 76 75, Stuart Anderson T59 74 67 75 77 +9 , Bryan DeCorso MC 74 75
Round 4 wrap
Shawn Stefani became the fourth multiple winner on the Web.com Tour in 2012 when he closed with a 3-under-par 68 to post a five-stroke victory over Australian Alistair Presnell at the 10th annual Miccosukee Championship on Sunday. Stefani finished with a 72-hole total of 15-under-par 269. Russell Henley finished third
live scoring click http://www.pgatour.com/leaderboards/current/h083/
Brad Fritsch MC means hedrops to 22 in the top 25 money list..
http://www.pgatour.com/h/stats/info/?109
CHAMPIONS Tour
Greater Hickory Classic
Conover, N.C.
Rock Barn Golf and Spa, Jones Course (7,090 yards, par 72).
Canadians Rod Spittle T24 71 71 71 -3 , Jim Rutledge T32 73 75 66 -2
Round 3 wrap
Fred Funk won the Greater Hickory Classic for his second Champions Tour title of the year and eighth overall, holing a 2-foot birdie putt on the final hole to beat Duffy Waldorf by a stroke
first round tee times click http://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/s613/tee-times.html
EUROPEAN Tour
Portugal Masters
Vilamoura, Portugal.
Oceanico Victoria Golf Course (7,157 yards, par 71).
Round 4 wrap.
europeantour.com Irishman Shane Lowry beat England's Ross Fisher by one at the Portugal Masters after a thrilling final day in Vilamoura.
The 25 year old, who captured the Irish Open in an amazing debut three years ago, became only the second player to win on The European Tour as both an amateur and a professional.
Lowry joins Spaniard Pablo Martin, who won the 2007 Portuguese Open in his amateur days and then the Alfred Dunhill Championship in South Africa two years later.
Shot of the day from Lowry was a seven iron into the hole for an eagle two at the 11th, who looked to have secured a play-off until Fisher three-putted the last for bogey.
Lowry was one ahead after adding birdies at the 15th and 17th, but prepared himself for a play-off after driving into sand and bogeying the last for a 66 and 14 under par total.
live scoring click here
http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2012/tournamentid=2012076/leaderboard/index.html?showLeaderboard=Y
EUROPEAN CHALLENGE Tour
Czech Challenge Open
Kuneticka Hora Golf Club,
Dritec, Czech Republic
Round 4 wrap
europeantour.com Andreas Hartø sealed his third European Challenge Tour title in stunning fashion as the Dane finished with four spectacular birdies to see off the brave challenge of his compatriot Joachim B Hansen and win the inaugural D+D Real Czech Challenge Open.
In the most dramatic of finales at Kunetická Hora Golf Club, Hartø was put under intense pressure on the closing holes as Hansen, playing one group in front, birdied four holes in a row just after the turn to move into a share of the lead with his fellow Dane.
Hartø kept his best until last however, as a birdie at the 15th was followed by a superb up and down at the par five 16th for birdie, having found the rough with his first two shots
live scoring click here http://www.europeantour.com/challengetour/season=2012/tournamentid=2012776/leaderboard/index.html?showLeaderboard=Y
LPGA
LPGA Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club (6,208 yards, par 72).
Final wrap
Inbee Park. Park, who leads the Tour’s money list this season, tied the low round of the day of 6-under 65 to move her to 11-under for the tournament yesterday,,, Today she shot a -4 67 to win the LPGA Malaysia at -15, 2 shots clear of the field..
live scoring click here http://www.lpgascoring.com/public/Leaderboard.aspx
eGOLF PROFESSIONAL TOUR
NorthStone Open
NorthStone Country Club, Huntersville, N.C.
Canadians.. Cam Burke T26 70 69 73 -1...others all MC
Former New Mexico State University golfer Tim Madigan of Rio Rancho, NM entered the final round of the eGolf Tour’s NorthStone Open with a two-shot lead, briefly lost that lead, then battled back to post a final-round 68 for his first career win in his rookie year on tour.
The NorthStone Open was the 22nd event of the 2012 eGolf Tour season and was contested this past week at NorthStone Country Club in Huntersville, NC.
live scoring click here http://tarheel.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/tarheel12/event/tarheel1223/contest/1/leaderboard.htm
Bryan Angus also on twitter@mummmbles and at www.isr1050.com and broadcasting daily at http://nssradiotv.com
Justin Rose (66), world #5 beat Lee Westwood (67) #4 to win the so called World Golf Final and the $1.5m first prize. He won all 5 matches he played. Westwood gets $1m for losing the final.
McIlroy and the rest will play in a Saturday afternoon pro-am, and the course and country have been granted a European Tour event in 2013, the Turkish Open..
PGA Tour
Frys.com Open
San Martin, Calif.
CordeValle Golf Club (7,368 yards, par 71).
Canadians.. Mike Weir MC E 71 71, Stephen Ames T64 -1 71,68,73,73 Matt McQuillan MC 73,78 Matt Hill MC 70,73 David Hearn MC 70,73
live scoring click http://www.pgatour.com/r/leaderboard/
Round 4 wrap
pgatour.com The third PGA TOUR rookie to win this season, Sweden's Jonas Blixt holed a 4-foot par putt on the final hole for a 3-under 68 and a one-stroke victory in the Fall Series event at CordeValle. He earned $900,000 and a tour exemption through the 2014 season
Tim Petrovic and Jason Kokrak tied for second. Petrovic had a 64, and Kokrak shot a 68.
Third-round leader John Mallinger had a 72 to tie for fourth at 14 under with Jimmy Walker, Vijay Singh and Alexandre Rocha. Walker closed with a 62, and Singh and Rocha shot 68
WEB.COM Tour
Miccosukee Championship
Miami, Miccosukee Golf and Country Club (7,200 yards, par 71).
Canadians.. James Love T45 68,72,74.75 +5 Brad Fritsch MC 70 76, Adam Hadwin MC 75 71, Richard Scott T45 71 72 75.71 +5, David Morland MC 76 75, Stuart Anderson T59 74 67 75 77 +9 , Bryan DeCorso MC 74 75
Round 4 wrap
Shawn Stefani became the fourth multiple winner on the Web.com Tour in 2012 when he closed with a 3-under-par 68 to post a five-stroke victory over Australian Alistair Presnell at the 10th annual Miccosukee Championship on Sunday. Stefani finished with a 72-hole total of 15-under-par 269. Russell Henley finished third
live scoring click http://www.pgatour.com/leaderboards/current/h083/
Brad Fritsch MC means hedrops to 22 in the top 25 money list..
http://www.pgatour.com/h/stats/info/?109
CHAMPIONS Tour
Greater Hickory Classic
Conover, N.C.
Rock Barn Golf and Spa, Jones Course (7,090 yards, par 72).
Canadians Rod Spittle T24 71 71 71 -3 , Jim Rutledge T32 73 75 66 -2
Round 3 wrap
Fred Funk won the Greater Hickory Classic for his second Champions Tour title of the year and eighth overall, holing a 2-foot birdie putt on the final hole to beat Duffy Waldorf by a stroke
first round tee times click http://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/s613/tee-times.html
EUROPEAN Tour
Portugal Masters
Vilamoura, Portugal.
Oceanico Victoria Golf Course (7,157 yards, par 71).
Round 4 wrap.
europeantour.com Irishman Shane Lowry beat England's Ross Fisher by one at the Portugal Masters after a thrilling final day in Vilamoura.
The 25 year old, who captured the Irish Open in an amazing debut three years ago, became only the second player to win on The European Tour as both an amateur and a professional.
Lowry joins Spaniard Pablo Martin, who won the 2007 Portuguese Open in his amateur days and then the Alfred Dunhill Championship in South Africa two years later.
Shot of the day from Lowry was a seven iron into the hole for an eagle two at the 11th, who looked to have secured a play-off until Fisher three-putted the last for bogey.
Lowry was one ahead after adding birdies at the 15th and 17th, but prepared himself for a play-off after driving into sand and bogeying the last for a 66 and 14 under par total.
live scoring click here
http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2012/tournamentid=2012076/leaderboard/index.html?showLeaderboard=Y
EUROPEAN CHALLENGE Tour
Czech Challenge Open
Kuneticka Hora Golf Club,
Dritec, Czech Republic
Round 4 wrap
europeantour.com Andreas Hartø sealed his third European Challenge Tour title in stunning fashion as the Dane finished with four spectacular birdies to see off the brave challenge of his compatriot Joachim B Hansen and win the inaugural D+D Real Czech Challenge Open.
In the most dramatic of finales at Kunetická Hora Golf Club, Hartø was put under intense pressure on the closing holes as Hansen, playing one group in front, birdied four holes in a row just after the turn to move into a share of the lead with his fellow Dane.
Hartø kept his best until last however, as a birdie at the 15th was followed by a superb up and down at the par five 16th for birdie, having found the rough with his first two shots
live scoring click here http://www.europeantour.com/challengetour/season=2012/tournamentid=2012776/leaderboard/index.html?showLeaderboard=Y
LPGA
LPGA Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club (6,208 yards, par 72).
Final wrap
Inbee Park. Park, who leads the Tour’s money list this season, tied the low round of the day of 6-under 65 to move her to 11-under for the tournament yesterday,,, Today she shot a -4 67 to win the LPGA Malaysia at -15, 2 shots clear of the field..
live scoring click here http://www.lpgascoring.com/public/Leaderboard.aspx
eGOLF PROFESSIONAL TOUR
NorthStone Open
NorthStone Country Club, Huntersville, N.C.
Canadians.. Cam Burke T26 70 69 73 -1...others all MC
Former New Mexico State University golfer Tim Madigan of Rio Rancho, NM entered the final round of the eGolf Tour’s NorthStone Open with a two-shot lead, briefly lost that lead, then battled back to post a final-round 68 for his first career win in his rookie year on tour.
The NorthStone Open was the 22nd event of the 2012 eGolf Tour season and was contested this past week at NorthStone Country Club in Huntersville, NC.
live scoring click here http://tarheel.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/tarheel12/event/tarheel1223/contest/1/leaderboard.htm
Bryan Angus also on twitter@mummmbles and at www.isr1050.com and broadcasting daily at http://nssradiotv.com
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