Archive for June, 2008

PRAYAD EYES VICTORY AT SINGHA THAI PGA CHAMPIONSHIP

Chiang Rai, Thailand, June 25: Thai star Prayad Marksaeng, who will bid for a third victory in a month this week, has attributed his spectacular form to meditation and a putting tip from his young sons.
The home hero headlines the Singha Thailand PGA Championship presented by Sports Authority of Thailand on Thursday and is strongly [...]

World Golf Headlines June 24th, 2008

While Tiger’s gone, here’s how to keep golf fun
Welcome to the Monday Scramble. We’ll be with you right after Sam Alexis Woods admits that she accidentally drove her Fisher-Price Power Wheels Cadillac Escalade (Editor’s note: That is a real product) into daddy’s left leg.
THIS WEEK’S SPECIAL: So it looks like we’ll have a new president [...]

Champions return to Long Island for Commerce Bank Championship

The 21st playing of the Commerce Bank Championship is this week at Eisenhower Park’s Red Course. In 2007, Lonnie Nielsen picked up his first Champions Tour win when he took a three-stroke lead into the final round and defeated Loren Roberts by two strokes.
It was Nielsen’s first PGA TOUR-sanctioned victory. Nielsen is no stranger to [...]

Robbo coming on a Storm

GRAEME Storm today backed fellow Hartlepool golfer Simon Robinson’s quest to become the third North-East player on the European Tour.
Robinson took his first Challenge Tour title earlier this month after a sensational final round of 63 saw him win the SK Golf Challenge, in Finland.
That victory moved Robinson up to 17th in the Challenge [...]

Nobbs’ nous tames Norfolk in Club6

Week seven of the 2008 Club6 competition has seen another scintillating individual performance, with our first Club6 weekly winner for the year not from the main land.
Danny Nobbs from the Norfolk Island Golf Club was able to hold of his competitors to take this week’s national title with a dazzling score of 17 stableford points [...]

Players face different pressure at Buick

So, Stewart Cink, who has exhibited an impressive level of golfing proficiency all season, has stepped up and put a “W” on the board in Week One AT (Absent Tiger).
Now the PGA TOUR visits Grand Blanc, Mich., for the Buick Open, at which Woods was expected to compete before he further injured his surgically repaired [...]

Westwood heads world-class field at Le Golf National

Lee Westwood will be looking to build on the performance which saw him finish third at the US Open Championship when he returns to action in a world-class field gathered for the Open de France ALSTOM at Le Golf National on the outskirts of Paris.
Westwood led the US Open at Torrey Pines with nine holes [...]

Ford Wayne Gretzky Classic welcomes Nationwide Tour to Canada

The Nationwide Tour heads north from Knoxville, Tenn., to Ontario, Canada, this week for the inaugural Ford Wayne Gretzky Classic presented by Samsung, the 16th of 30 official events on the Nationwide Tour. In honor of tournament host Wayne Gretzky — who wore No. 99 on his sweater during his National Hockey League career — [...]

Ochoa heads to U.S. Open as golf’s brightest light

Don’t know if you’ve noticed, but there’s another Tiger Woods out on the Tour. Except this one is 5-foot-6 and wears a bra.
Lorena Ochoa is Tiger without the red on Sundays. She’s fluent in three languages: Spanish, English and Kicking Your Butt. You need an El Tigre fix? Ochoa can get rid of those shakes.
Lorena [...]

Female Thai teen golfer takes on men at Bangkok Open

Thai teenager Pornanong Phatlum will be aiming to become only the second female player to make the halfway cut on the Asian Tour when she competes in the Bangkok Airways Open this week.The 18-year-old is determined to follow in the footsteps of American prodigy Michelle Wie who was the first to play in all four [...]