Topic: South Africa
MIAMI (Reuters) - U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell plans to have a bit of fun while adopting a hard-nosed mentality at next week's end-of-season PGA Grand Slam of Golf in Bermuda.While the Northern Irishman has set his sights on victory in the ...
Reigning British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa has withdrawn from next week's Grand Slam of Golf and been replaced by David Toms, the PGA of America said Tuesday.Oosthuizen, who won his first major title last July at St. Andrews, damaged ...
South African Ernie Els, whose 62 global victories include two US Open triumphs and a British Open title, has been elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame in his first year on the ballot.Els's election was announced on Wednesday, on the ...
Louis Oosthuizen knew winning the British Open was a big deal. The South African just didn?t realize quite how big."I think you?ve got this picture in your mind of what it?s going to be like after a major win, and it was ...
BRO, Sweden (Reuters) - British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen was still in the hunt for a Scandinavian Masters title on Friday to follow his first major win despite slipping off the second round lead at one stage.The 27-year-old South African dropped five ...
Sunday 18 July was the 92nd birthday of Nelson Mandela and fittingly the British Open Championship was one by a South African, Louis Oosthuizen (pronounced "woost-hazen"). Oosthuizen was raised by farmers and needed help from the Ernie Els Foundation to afford to ...
An outrageous 200-1 long shot he might have been, but looking back, all the omens were there this week for Louis Oosthuizen to play the best golf of his life and win the British Open.First of all, 2010 has been billed as ...
Rank outsider Louis Oosthuizen stood on the cusp of British Open glory on Sunday, taking a four-stroke lead into the final round.The 27-year-old South African carded superb rounds of 65, 67 and 69 to set up a 15-under par winning position and ...
Rank outsider Louis Oosthuizen stood on the cusp of British Open glory on Sunday, taking a four stroke lead into the final round.The 27-year-old South African carded superb rounds of 65, 67 and 69 to set up a 15-under par, winning position ...
'We are the World': South African Oosthuizen atop a veritable United Nations leaderboardIt's already been a rocky year for American golfers, even those not named Tiger Woods. Little that's happened at the British Open so far suggests that's about to change.By the ...