***Mahan makes chopped salad out of the par-3 17th. Europe wins 14.5-13.5.*** ***UPDATE! 10:13*** McDowell wins 16 and is 2-up with 2 to play. Europe is assured of 14 points, but not yet 14.5. ***UPDATE!!!! 10:05*** The other choking dog of a Molinari brother blows a huge lead, including the last three holes to let Ricky Fowler tie the match! Now it’s 13.5-12.5...
***UPDATE*** in just a half hour two full matches have flipped. at 7:15 a.m. EST, the singles stand at 6-6. Just 1.5 more points have to flip for the U.S. to retain the Cup. Still, it looks like an uphill battle, but at least the Yanks look to be putting up a fight. Stricker reversed his opening match with Westwood and now leads 2-up with 3 to play. Bubba Watson and...
From Golf Observer: The conclusion of both the “first session” and “second session” went great for the Americans, who opened a 6-4 lead at Celtic Manor, but the third session of this long day was a different story. When darkness halted the proceedings, Europe held the lead in all six matches, which ranged from having four holes and nine holes...
Robert Trent Jones, Jr. has been quite the jet-setter recently, working on projects from Morocco to Egypt, from to Eastern Europe to Asia, but this week all eyes are his work at Celtic Manor in Wales, the venue for the 2010 Ryder Cup. Opened in July 2007, the course combines the routing of nine holes from the original Robert Trent Jones-designed Wentwood Hills golf...
PEBBLE BEACH, CA – It’s Graeme McDowell who won the 2010 U.S. Open, not Lou Graham, but since McDowell’s win closely resembles Graham’s victory at Medinah in 1975, the confusion is easily forgiven. Like 1975, Championship Sunday dawned over Paradise with the game’s greatest players lurking near the top of the leaderboard. But also like...
Graeme McDowell, wins the 110th U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, the first European to do so since Tony Jacklin won the 1970 U.S. Open at Hazeltine National in Minnesota. Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland, you are on the clock!
God bless us every one, a nice guy finished first. Tiny Tim Clark, whose “legs are too short so I use my head,” as he once said at a U.S. Open, won the arguably “fifth major,” as his 5-under 67 captured the Players Championship by one shot over Robert Allenby. Third round leader Lee Westwood closed with a dreary 74, allowing Clark, who fired a...
…At Kyle Phillips.com. Here’s the link to my story about Verdura in Italy…which I didn’t play, but which is causing humorous pointed discussions in the Flemma-Bonsoliel household. “Sicily,” she said. “Morocco,” I replied. “Sicily.” “Morocco.” Pregnant pause. I know trouble’s coming…my...
PHOTO COURTESY OF VERDURA GOLF AND SPA RESORT I knew I was in trouble when Britt saw the glossy photos of sun-drenched beaches, fragrant orchards, and Sicilian villas. “Sicily?” she asked, suddenly interested in the pictures on my writing desk. It was the new 45-hole Kyle Phillips-designed Verdura Golf and Spa Resort. She opened the brochure to a two page...
Congratulations to Irish Golf Desk’s Brian Keogh and his lovely wife Elena, who became parents just minutes ago. Tristan Keogh de las Heras was born in Dublin, Ireland early Thursday morning. Mother, father, and child are all doing well. Here’s hoping we have a future sports writer in our midst, the third generation in a row for Brian’s family...
The funny thing about it is…he’s right! There’s no surly prima donna deliberately being passive aggressive and intentionally wearing the opposite color of the rest of the team so he could look like “the playing captain,” there’s no chump who refuses to get along with #2 in the world Phil Mickelson and flatten all comers like Mighty...
For all your European Tour needs, tune in to Brian Keogh and the Irish Golf Desk. Today, Brian has photos and a write up of back-to-back defending British Open champion Padraig Harrington at Turnberry. Also, check out Brian’s great Irish golf travel tips! ***UPDATE*** Keogh says Harrington told him they grew massive, thick, U.S. Open rough!!! From the article...
Brian Keogh of the Irish Golf Desk has this interview with Padraig Harrington, where the reigning British Open and PGA Champion talks about playing with Woods in 2002 at Bethpage, and how he’s excited. Angel Cabrera may round out the threesome for the first two days. Keogh also got Paddy to give us all an optimistic view of how his practice regimen is helping...
No matter how much hope and change comes to the U.S.G.A. offices in Far Hills, N.J., at the U.S. Open when it comes to a difficult set-up at Bethpage, The Song Remains the Same. Cybergolf.com has more.
Look for additional U.S. Open pieces here, at Cybergolf, and at GolfObserver.com.
Padraig Harrington seems to have the luck of the Irish everywhere except Augusta National. After another nightmare on the 15th hole yesterday – where a gust of wind blew his ball out of position as he addressed a birdie putt, and he incurred a one-stroke penalty – the Irishman who won the last two consecutive majors took a lethal quadruple bogey on...