Topic: The Open Championship
Two-time defending champ Steve Stricker will take centre stage at the John Deere Classic this week as the world No. 5 seeks to dominated the event for the third consecutive year.The 44-year-old American, who birdied all 12 par-five holes en route to ...
France's Thomas Levet withdrew from the British Open on Wednesday after fracturing his right fibula when he jumped into a pond to celebrate his French Open win last weekend.After clinching his first ever French Open success, and sixth European Tour victory, on ...
As his family went off in search of the Loch Ness Monster Phil Mickelson revealed a goal to join the select band of players to have captured golf's Grand Slam.In the long history of the game only five men - Gene Sarazen, ...
Injured 14-time major champion Tiger Woods announced on Tuesday that he was pulling out of next week's British Open, casting further doubt on whether he will ever recover his form of old."Unfortunately, I've been advised that I should not play in the ...
Injured 14-time major champion Tiger Woods said Tuesday he remains uncertain if he will play at the British Open in two weeks and has no timetable for his recovery.Woods, chasing the all-time record 18 majors won by Jack Nicklaus, will not play ...
MUNICH (Reuters) - A disappointing finish denied former world number four Henrik Stenson the outright lead after the BMW International Open second round on Friday.However, the reinvigorated Swede was still in contention for his first victory for more than two years after ...
BETHESDA, Maryland (Reuters) - While the European Tour celebrated its fifth successive major champion after Rory McIlroy's astonishing eight-shot victory at the U.S. Open, American golf grappled with an unprecedented title drought.For the first time since the Masters was launched in 1934, ...
For those in the know from his earliest years in Holywood outside Belfast, it was just a matter of time before Rory McIlroy joined the ranks of major winners in golf.Like Tiger Woods, he was a child prodigy.Young McIlroy hit a 40-yard ...
Reigning British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen put himself in contention for his second major title by firing a two-under par 69 on Thursday at the US Open.The 28-year-old South African has never won a US event and missed the cut last year ...
BETHESDA, Maryland (Reuters) - South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen charged to a runaway victory at last year's British Open but he proved on Thursday he can smoothly adjust to the patient approach so necessary at U.S. Opens.The 28-year-old recovered from a potentially destructive ...