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March 17, 2012, 11:34 am
Tiger Woods returned from injury today and scored a nine under par 63 betterball in partnership with Justin Rose at the twoday Tavistock Cup in Florida.
Woods was representing Albany against Lake Nona, Isleworth and Queenwood in the annual starstudded fourclub challenge.
The former world number one was back eight days after pulling out after 11 holes of his final round in the Cadillac Championship with an Achilles tendon strain.
“I did the smart thing and prudent thing this time, hence I’m back in a week,” he said.
“I’ve done it before and played through not just pain, but injury and set myself back quite a bit.
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March 3, 2012, 4:10 am
WITH a first major in the bag and the world number one box now ticked as well, Rory McIlroy will try to show this week that golf really has entered a new era.
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February 28, 2012, 7:14 am
Robert Allenby owned up to a rookie mistake after extending his decade-long US PGA Tour victory drought in demoralising fashion.
It took eight extra holes – the equal second longest play-off in PGA Tour history – before Allenby blinked first and 21-year-old tour newcomer John Huh beat the seasoned Australian to win the Mayakoba Classic in Mexico.
But 40-year-old Allenby was painfully aware it should never have come to a play-off and he may never get a better chance to claim a long-sought fifth US title.
With the world’s top 60 players away at the WGC-Match Play Championship in Arizona, Allenby had the mediocre field at his mercy when he reached the final hole in regulation holding a two-shot lead and already eight-under-par for the day.
Instead of playing safe, he hit his driver and made a double bogey after the ball finished in trees on the right, ending tied with Huh (63) at 13-under 271 on the seaside El Camaleon course designed by his mentor and mate Greg Norman.
‘Obviously, disappointed,’ said Allenby.
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February 17, 2012, 7:51 pm
TORONTO – Iron your golf pants and throw on a collared shirt … its time for Starch Madness.
Yes, that was lame but gimme a break, not much rhymes with March.
More importantly, outside of the majors and the Ryder Cup the opening day of the WGC Accenture Match Play is the best day of the year to be a golf fan.
Thirty-two matches featuring 62 of the top 64 players in the world going head-to-head.
Every week on Tour, when golfers are asked about the pressure of being paired with Player X, Y or Z, we hear the same answers:
I just concentrate on my game and let the rest take care of itself.
Or
Im playing the golf course not my opponent.
Or
I am a golf robot from the planet Par and I have no emotion chip.
Not this week.
Match Play is a different animal.
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February 12, 2012, 8:10 am
British Open champion Darren Clarke has appointed Phil “Wobbly” Morbey, who used to caddie for former world number one Ian Woosnam, as his new bagman.
ISM, Clarke’s management team, said that Morbey would launch his partnership with the 43yearold at next week’s WGCAccenture Match Play Championship in Marana, Arizona.
The world number 54 announced in January that he had split up with John Mulrooney, the caddie who helped him land his first major championship at the Open in July.
Northern Irishman Clarke has been out of sorts since his victory at Sandwich, his best result a 20thplace finish at the Volvo Golf Champions tournament in South Africa last month.
He and Mulrooney parted company after the player slumped to rounds of 72 and 81 to miss the cut at the Abu Dhabi Championship two and a half weeks ago.
Morbey spent 14 years as caddie for Woosnam and was with the Welshman when he won the 1991 US Masters.