After several months struggling to play his best golf, Padraig Harrington finds himself one shot off the lead at the Abu Dhabi Championship after firing an impressive seven-under-par in the opening round. The Irishman is without a European Tour victory since the 2008 USPGA, but you wouldn’t have known it with the way he performed [...]
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In the BBC’s annual sporting awards extravaganza golf was, for once, well represented. Though after such a successful year I still feel some individual achievements were undervalued. Those looking at the livescores regularly note that the victorious Ryder Cup team picked up the team of the year award. Their achievement in regaining the title at [...]
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Martin Kaymer hadn’t even won a professional golf championship until 2008 but has since upped his game to win his first major, whilst also taking his place as a key member of this year’s successful European Ryder Cup team. Based on this rise to fame, it would perhaps take a brave man to bet against [...]
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Having just shown Ryder Cup Betting pundits that he is one of the world’s (let alone Europe’s) top golfers, Paul Casey could recently have been forgiven for throwing a Kevin Pietersen-style public hissy fit on one of the many social networking sites that modern day sportsmen and celebrities populate. However, after failing to earn himself a captain’s [...]
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Formerly synonymous with brilliance on the course and a perfect life off it, Tiger Woods has had to adjust to being seen as a serial cheat as well as a golfer whose best days are firmly behind him. This change has been reinforced by the fact that Tiger has failed to qualify for the USPGA [...]
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Having had to make difficult decisions as to whom he wanted to pick as his wildcards for the 2010 Ryder Cup, Colin Montgomerie has now redirected the pressure he was under on to US team captain Corey Pavin. With Monty making the controversial decision to include Padraig Harrington, a man who has done anything but [...]
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Thomas Bjorn, one of Colin Montgomerie’s vice captains for the 2010 Ryder Cup, and someone previously seen as a candidate to step into Monty’s shoes should he resign the captaincy, has been hit by allegations that he has fathered a child with an Australian air stewardess, despite having been married since 1998. With Bjorn already [...]
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Golf has provided its followers with a rollercoaster ride over the last 18 months. Nothing has been easy to predict for PGA Tour Betting pundits, as anyone predicting a near miss for Tom Watson at the Open or a collapse in form for Tiger Woods would have been laughed off their local course. The last seven [...]
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Had it not been for a nightmare second round, Rory McIlroy would have been well in contention to win the British Open at St Andrews this weekend. After setting the pace with a sensational 63 on Thursday, the Northern Irishman struggled to a round of 80 the following day and in the end this has [...]
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Tiger Woods has been in the news for much more than his golf in recent months, but he will be hoping that The Open Championships at St Andrews will remind everyone that he can create headlines for being the best player in his sport. The World No.1 has certainly made a solid start to proceedings [...]
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