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Posted by Chris | September 28th, 2009

The Tour Championship was won yesterday by Phil Mickelson, who shot a final round on sunday of 65 in East Lake Golf Club. He finnished nine under par.

It wasn’t enough, however to stop Tiger Woods from winning the Fed Ex cup with a cool 10 million dollars.

Woods finnished the championship with 3,750 points, well clear of Mickelson, who finnished second with 2,920 points. Mickelson joked:

“Let me see if I get this straight,” said the left-hander. “I shot 65 and he shot 70 and gets a check for $10m? I’m just kidding.

Tiger Woods, ever the good sportsman was quoted:

Phil played well… he did the things he needed to do this week

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Posted by Chris | September 22nd, 2009

South Korea’s Yang Yong-Eun became the first Asian born player to win a major. Woods needed just 33 puts over 18 holes, but came into real difficulty when it came to putting the ball. No prizes for guessing what he’ll be doing this weekend then.

Tiger Woods Apparently blamed his loss of the USPGA Golf Tournament to Yang Yong-Eun on his poor putting performance.

After watching the replays, i’m inclined to agree. I guess we are all aloud our “off days” though. I think he should be relly pleased with the result he got.

“I felt I played well enough to win today,” said Woods.

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Posted by Chris | September 21st, 2009

Well it looks as if the recession has also begun to hit Golf prize winnings as this week news hit that the European Gold Tour has cut it’s prize winnings from 6.1 million pounds to just over 4 and a half million pounds.. That’s a cut of just over 25%.

If a player wins both the tournament and the Race to Dubai they will take home £1.7m compared with £2.2m, a similar reduction of 25%.

I can’t help but feel a little sorry for the players this time around, Loosing out on a huge wedge of cash due to the worlds ecconomic position.

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Posted by Chris | September 7th, 2009

Ace: The same as a hole-in-one.. A score of 1.

Birdie: One shot below par.

Bogey: One shot over par.

Double Eagle: Three shots under par

Double Bogey: Two shots over par

Eagle: Two shots under par.

Par: The difficulty of the hole you are on. If this course is harder, a higher par is assigned. Its basically the average number you are trying to get.

Sand Wedge: A type of club used to get out of a sand bunker, designed to hit the ball very high, but not far.

Iron: A type of club normally used to hit a ball that is on the fairway (the space between the hole and where you are starting from). Irons are assigned numbers according to the angle of the head.

Woods: A type of club used at the start of a hole, they are usually used with a tee and are designed to hit the ball very long distances.

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Posted by Chris | September 2nd, 2009

It’s apparently been discussed at great length over the past few years that Golf should be added to the Olympic games. The IOC finally agreed to add it into the extensive list of olympic games… So we should be seeing a 40 year old Tiger Woods with a Gold medal hanging around his neck real soon.

I’m not too sure I agree with the move.. The Olympics just doesn’t seem like the right sort of competition for a sport like Golf. Wouldn’t they be better to accept a sport like squash or Karate. I jsut think it would be more suited to the type of competition that the Olympics has become.

.. Although I guess it just means there will be more Golf on the TV though so its all good.

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Posted by Chris | August 30th, 2009

American born golfer Ryan Moore won a play-off between three people, which also involved Kevin Stadler and Jason Bohn, this win allowed him to claim the Wyndham Championship which was held at Greensboro.

Moore made a birdy on the the third extra hole which saw off Stadler following the loss of Bohn when he was eliminated just two holes earlier.

Our very own Justin Rose, who initially started the day, only one small shot behind the leaders which saw him on 13 under, had a finishing last round score of 68 which unfortunatley saw him two strokes short of the American golfers.

Sergio Garcia from spain ended up finishing on a par 70 to miss the play-off by a shot.

Garcia was careless as he pulled out three bogeys and threw his three shot lead halfway in the final round to end on an unlucky 15 under.

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Posted by Chris | August 29th, 2009

New PGA Tour player Webb Simpson take the  lead in the Barclays Classic by two swings after a round of getting three under, ending score of 68 in the second round in New Jersey at  Liberty National.

The American of 24 years of age, was among the only nine players to break par.

Sergio Garcia from Spain, who was level in the overnight lead, scuffed it to a five-over par with an ending score of 76 to be level 11th, while Woods got 72 and is now shockingly tied for 17th place.

The current champion defending his title, Vijay Singh was out very early as he  shot a second round of 75 to miss the cut by three.

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Posted by Chris | August 28th, 2009

As the sensational record-breaking victory of Usain Bolt’s 100m time came to the world in Berlin at the weekend, a golfer from South Korea was writing his own paragraph in the history books.

Yang Yong-Eun’s amazing comeback victory at the PGA Championship was just as important to the club swinging sport as Bolt’s record-shattering 9.58 seconds 100m timing was to the athletics world.

In just a couple of days Yang went beyond the previous achievements of  Huan Lu-Liang and Chen Tze-Chung (TC Chen) from Thaiwan, Isao Aoki from Japan, and fellow KJ Choi, by becoming the first Asian-born male to win one of golf’s four majors.

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Posted by Chris | August 27th, 2009

Native Simon Dyson was victorious in a three-way play-off at the KLM Open in our neighbouring Netherlands on Sunday.

Dyson, who previously has shot a course record by equalling 63, was neck-and-neck with Peter Lawrie from Ireland and Sweden’s Peter Hedblom all 15 below par.

The three only needed one play-off hole to decide the victor which turned out to be our very own Dyson, who also won three years ago, by playing a lovely birdy on the 18th with an astonishing 18-foot putt.

Coming in at Fourth and Fifth were Damien McGrane and Darren Clarke.

Dyson was delighted and was the first to enjoy the clubhouse following a superb round with seven birdies.

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Posted by Chris | August 26th, 2009

Unfortunatley for Britain, Our world number three Paul Casey is suffering from an injury which will mean he misses out on this week’s Barclays event in New Jersey.

He has a rib muscle injury but is crossing his fingers that he will be able to compete in the Deutsche Bank Championship all the way in Boston next week.

Casey, who has won three times this season, got the injury while he was swinging away in practice befor the open last week.

“It has been a really frustrating few weeks,” Casey explained.

Our Hero positioned 47th in the Turnberry Open and pulled out in the Initial round of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational last month, he also missed out on the USPGA, the final tournament of the year which was won by YE Yang.

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