Kenny Perry and teammate Fred Funk jumped to the top of the leaderboard Saturday, joining first-round leaders Jerry Kelly and Steve Stricker at 18 under in the team event. Watch out for GMac and Big D though, poised to strike from three back.
Alfred Dunhill Championship 2011 Third Round Highlights from the European Tour website. Click on the pic to open in a new window.
Pablo Martin and Charles Schwartzel are poised to strike in the final round of the Alfred Dunhill Championship.
Documents released under the Welsh Freedom of Information Act have revealed that Lee Westwood was the mastermind behind the Tiger Woods Ryder Cup Cigar Man heckler. Now with the release of this new wider angle view of the iconic photo it is clear to see Westwood standing to the left of Cigar Man. Westwood appears to be wearing a Rory Wig as a disguise. More as it emerges.
Graeme McDowell Viral 2010 Dream Video, Starring Rory McIlroy, Ian Poulter, Vote GMac, BBC Sports Personality of the Year
Lee Westwood docked in to the headquarters of mega-corporation Omni Consumer Products for an essential software upgrade today. Lee’s old program had developed a slight glitch resulting in the odd six foot putt being pulled 0.1 degrees to the left. The core was also considered to be becoming a little flabby.
Recognizing the flaw, OCP called Westwood in to run several diagnostic programs to his mainframe. The current version of his program, the ED-209, caused controversy when first introduced, after Westwood accidentally (character) assassinated a PGA Tour journalist.
However Westwood’s cyborg program has enjoyed widespread favour since after helping topple the rival Tiger Droid TW1. Fears are growing however that the Tiger Droid TW2.0 is set to strike back in the new year.
It seems no topic is safe in the race to the bottom of Television’s shock-doc league. Fresh from TV shows called Octoboy, Human Spider Sisters and Treeman….the USA’s Golf Channel have gotten in on the act with their new series which follows the life of down on his luck pro Mark Burk. Burk, once a Pro to the Hollywood stars, and boyfriend of supermodel Bev
erly Johnson, is now homeless and living in a construction pipe in California!
In his heyday Burk played on the Sunshine Tour in South Africa but of late was better known for allegedly smacking around his supermodel girlfriend before she booted him out and consigned him to the gutter, er pipe. The show is set to follow Burk as he tries to get his life back on track on and off the course and his court battle to clear his name against the Johnson charge.
No word yet on what the show is to be called. The easy option might be “Pipe Dream” but we prefer “Smack My Pipe Up”, or “Beaten. Within An Inch Of His Pipe”.
Do not adjust your computer screen. This is Andres Gonzales and, wait for it, he is going to be on the PGA Tour next season.
Tim Finchem is said to be delighted that the US Tour is getting their very own, if rather dodgy, Miguel Angel Jimenez lookalike.
Its has also been reported than Finchem plans to have Gonzales star with Charley Hoffman in a 2011 PGA Tour Commercial which is said to be loosely based on “Oh Brother Where Art Thou”. Yeeee-hawwww!#
At the haflway point at Q school the leaders Saltman, Garcia and Lewis took advantage of an easy course layout on the Tour Course to reach 11 under par. Indeed 49 of the top 50 players on the leaderboard played the Tour Course yesterday and although the rest of the field will play it today it does raise questions as to its suitability, contrasting greatly as it does with the tougher Stadium Course.
Best of the Irish are Niall Kearney and Simon Thornton on 4 and 3 under while Colm Moriarty needs a low one today from 1 over and Damien Mooney has it all to do from 6 over.
Its a fair result for all as the news emerged that both majors winner Graeme McDowell and Martin Kaymer have tied for the honour European Tour Player Of The Year 2010.
Here’s a really good article on the award from the Sports Campus
Billy Mayfair Wins US PGA Tour Q School 2011 Final Round Highlights
Irelands Niall Kearney bounced back from a first round 76 at Q School with a brilliant 65 on day two. Kearney went bogey free on the par 70 Tour Course carding five birdies to climb 53 places up the leaderboard. Kearney is joined on one under for the tournament by Simon Thornton.
Colm Moriarty also improved yesterday with a one under par 69 to lie on one over for the event in a tie for 77. Also in that tie is Damien Mooney who found the Stadium Course tougher as he carded a 75 to follow his opening day 68.
Alfred Dunhill Championship 2011 Betting Preview and Tips
Leopard Creek CC
Malelane, South Africa 09 Dec 2010 - 12 Dec 2010
The main man in South Africa this week. This time last year Charl was pipped at the post here by Pablo Martin and went to win in consecutive weeks at the Africa and Joburg Opens. Schwartzel tasted his first of five tour wins at Leopard Creek in December 2004 and came second the following two years. Thus a win and three seconds out of six attempts is a pretty decent record. Showed some good form at the Dubai World Championship finishing with a 66 to move up to 21st. I think Charl will reappraise his globetrotting schedule during the 2011 season; Atlantic hopping last year took its toll on performances.
Irishman Damien McGrane is coming off a performance to forget at the Dubai World Championship but perhaps even making the season finale was in itself an achievement to be proud of. McGrane impressed in tying for second at the Andalucia Masters on the tough Valderrama layout at the end of October and showed that he can also go low when shooting 15 under for the Hong Kong Open last month. McGrane tied eighth here last year and is arguably a better player now. What odds another trophy to add to the 2008 China Open trophy? 21/1 actually.
Welcome back to the European Tour Richard Sterne! The South African makes his return this week after almost a year away. Sterne won this event in 2008, the last of his five Tour wins. Defended well tying fourth last year and will no doubt be hungry to impress on his return to the big time. An outsider of course because of so little game time but this Leopard Creek layout isn’t for everybody and may just be the perfect place for the return of a home favourite.
Yep, Stevie Williams should never have taken his bib off before GMac had his say at the Chevron. Here’s a pic taken by our intrepid golfcentraldaily snapper of the incident.
Here’s a link to the Radio 4 Jeremy “Cunt” Hunt Gaffe from this morning from James Naughtie. Great name for a great gaffe.
http://vakart.org.uk/download/james_naughtie.mp3
Come one lets vote for GMac. But hang on, I don't know how. So I’m putting the call out: Does Anyone Know How To Vote GMac for BBC Sports Personality Of The Year 2010?
Lee Westwood on Twitter
Sorry 140 letters is not going to be enough for this rant! Just seen Ricky Fowler has been given rookie of the year! Yes he's had a good year but rory mcilroy 3rd in 2 majors and an absolute demolition of the field at quail hollow! Oh yes and on the winning Ryder cup team! Please! Is this yet another case of protectionism by the pga tour or are they so desperate to win something! Wouldn't have something to do with Rory not joining the tour next year? Maybe the PGA tour just employs the same voting process as FIFA! Come on , fairs fair!
Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell two of the greatest clutch putts ever to complete an amazing comeback victory over Tiger Woods in the Chevron World Challenge.
With Tiger in to three feet for birdie on he last during regulation play, McDowell canned his 20-foot birdie putt to force a playoff then repeated the dose almost exactly to deny Woods a victory in his own tournament of the year.
Congrats to Lee Westwood who capped off his fifth week as World No.1 by claiming victory at the Nedbank World Challenge. His four-under 68, which included his first chip-in of the year for birdie at the last, meant victory by eight shots at 17-under. Tim Clark shot a one-under 71 and took second at nine under. Retief Goosen (68) and Miguel Angel Jimenez (71) shared third at eight-under.
"I've been coming here for several years and it's a title I've always wanted to win," said Westwood. "I've come close a few times, lost in the play-offs, but it's always very special."
A promising start to European Tour Q School from Glasson’s Colm Moriarty looked assured when he birdied two holes in succession on his back nine only to suffer a double bogey on the tricky par three eighth, his 17th. His round of two over on the tougher Stadium Course leaves Colm with work to do over the next five rounds. Fog and cold have meant the event will run to next Friday.
Simon Thornton finished his first round on level par, Damien Mooney is one under (at time of writing after 12 holes) and Niall Kearney sits on four over. Welshman Liam Bond set the early pace carding a round of four under on the easier Tour course.
Jim Furyk capped off his finest season with the PGA Tour Player Of The Year Award for 2010.
Furyk, 40, won the Transitions Championship, the Verizon Heritage and the Tour Championship and managed totalled seven top-10s in 21 starts earning $4,809,622.
Chevron World Challenge 2010 Round Three Highlights
Rickie Fowler has pipped Rory McIlory to the title PGA TOUR Rookie of the Year last night.
Although winless in 28 starts, Fowler totalled seven top-10s including coming second at the Waste Management Phoenix Open and the Memorial Tournament presented by Morgan Stanley.
Fowler climbed from 249th to 25th in the Official World Golf Ranking over the season.
Pic: The Rickie Fowler orange jump suit is set to be the must-have Christmas gift this year. Comes with free ball and chain
from Aussie PGA, full article here.
Geoff Ogilvy has claimed his maiden Australian Open title in style, flirting with the tournament record before clinching a four-shot victory at The Lakes.
Ogilvy finished 19 under for the tournament, five strokes behind the record set by South African Gary Player at Kooyonga in 1965.
Pic: Final Round Leaderboard
Ogilvy's score of 269 across four rounds is the equal second-lowest aggregate in Australian Open 
history, etching his name alongside Jack Nicklaus (1971) and Mark Calcavecchia (1988).
Ogilvy pocketed the $270,000 winner's cheque after comfortably holding off Matt Jones on the final day.
Jones and Alistair Presnell finished joint runner-up on 15 under.
