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Vijay Singh became the most successful non-U.S.-born player in PGA Tour history when he won the Bridgestone Invitational yesterday.
Singh, whose short putting had been woeful for most of the final round at Firestone Country Club, sank critical par putts at the final two holes to edge Lee Westwood and Stuart Appleby by one stroke.
Phil Mickelson [...]
August 5th, 2008 | Posted in Golf News, PGA Tour | No Comments
Parker McLachlin shot a 2-over 74 Sunday and still cruised to his first PGA Tour victory by seven strokes at the Legends Reno-Tahoe Open.
McLachlin, in his second season on the PGA Tour, recovered from trouble time after time to card 14 pars, three bogeys and a birdie on the 18th to finish the tourney at [...]
August 4th, 2008 | Posted in Golf News, PGA Tour | No Comments
Vijay Singh won the final tune-up before the last major of the year, shooting a two-under 68 in the fourth round of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational.
Singh won Sunday’s eight million dollar event by one stroke over runner-ups Stuart Appleby (68) of Australia and England’s Lee Westwood (69).
“I just had to be confident over it,” he said [...]
August 4th, 2008 | Posted in Golf News, PGA Tour | No Comments
Parker McLachlin made nine-foot eagle putt and shot a 6-under 66 today to set a course record for 54 holes at 20-under par and take a six-stroke lead over England’s Brian Davis into the final round of the Legends Reno-Tahoe Open.
McLachlin, a second-year player on the PGA Tour, opened with a 68 and tied the [...]
August 3rd, 2008 | Posted in Golf News, PGA Tour | 1 Comment
Vijay Singh reeled off two late birdies to join Phil Mickelson and Lee Westwood in a three-way tie for the lead after the third round of the Bridgestone Invitational on Saturday.
Stuart Appleby is stroke adrift of the leaders in a crowded leaderboard at the eight million dollar WGC tournament.
Mickelson posted a two-under-par 68 in a [...]
August 3rd, 2008 | Posted in Golf News, PGA Tour | No Comments
Michelle Wie failed for the eighth time to make the cut at a PGA Tour event, the Reno-Tahoe Open in Nevada.
Wie, 18, who carded a first-round 73, was in contention to become the first woman since 1945 to make a PGA Tour cut, turning at one over for the day.
But after a double-bogey at the [...]
August 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Golf News, PGA Tour | No Comments
Now, isn’t this an interesting pairing?
Not quite as delicate as last year’s final-round pairing of Tiger Woods and Rory Sabbatini perhaps, but interesting just the same.
Phil Mickelson and Vijay Singh, no strangers to the tops of leaderboards during their distinguished careers, will be paired together in the final group today when the third round of [...]
August 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Golf News, PGA Tour | 1 Comment
After some relative struggles this year, Retief Goosen finally got off to the start he’s been looking for in the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational.
With the help of an early tee time and tamer conditions at Firestone Country Club’s South Course this year, Goosen shot a 4-under-par 66 Thursday in Akron, Ohio, to take a one-stroke [...]
August 1st, 2008 | Posted in Golf News, PGA Tour | 1 Comment
Retief Goosen was the early front-runner at Firestone Country Club today as the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational got under way in Akron, Ohio.
The South African covered the front nine of the 7,400-yard, par-70 South Course in a three-under-par 32, and had carded the fourth and fifth birdies of his opening round at the 10th and 11th holes [...]
July 31st, 2008 | Posted in Golf News, PGA Tour | No Comments
Michelle Wie returns to playing tournament golf with the professional men this week, and given her propensity to produce drama of all sorts, it should be interesting.
We know this: She’ll have somebody baby-sitting her while she signs her scorecard.
Wie learned yet another lesson the hard way two weeks ago when she was disqualified from the [...]
July 29th, 2008 | Posted in Golf News, LPGA Tour, PGA Tour | 1 Comment