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Golf
Els fury as field is left high and dry
THE sun may have been shining but moods were decidedly dark on day three of the BMW PGA Championship. James Morrison, who led by four shots at the halfway stage, had a nightmare. So, too, after a promising start, did Borderer David Drysdale. As for Ernie Els, his blood was boiling from anger.
John Huggan: Beem brightens up Euro Tour
IN AN era where big, blond and bland are increasingly the dominant characteristics of so many leading players on his home circuit, Rich Beem is cheerfully none of the above.
Laura Murray keeps her cool to win Scottish amateur title
LAURA Murray from Alford, a 23-year-old part-time swimming pool lifeguard, was certainly not out out of her depth in the final – her first – of the 98th Scottish women’s amateur golf champion over the Old Tom Morris-designed links at Tain in Ross-shire.
Paul Lawrie reigns in Spain as Scot reaches semis
TWO weeks after a wretched performance in front of Ryder Cup captain Jose Maria Olazabal, Scotland’s Paul Lawrie is poised for another mighty leap towards adding a second cap to the first he won 13 years ago.
John Huggan: Take pity on go-slow Kevin Na
THE American slowed the glacial pace of US golf even further at Sawgrass but, unlike the PGA, he is at least trying to change
John Huggan: Eye Spy
USPGA champion Bradley has the odd flaw, says John Huggan, but watch out for this rising star in majors and the 2012 Ryder Cup
European tour golf: Del Moral in control with one round left
Spaniard Carlos Del Moral knocked two strokes off his previous best European Tour round and was in control of the Madeira Islands Open with a round to go.
Golf roundup: Boeljon on course to retain Turkish Airlines Open
Holland’s Christel Boeljon is on course to retain the Turkish Airlines Open after a third-round 69 in Antalya.
Booth is just the ticket
GREAT things have been expected of Carly Booth ever since she earned a place in the history books when becoming the youngest ladies’ club champion in Britain as she lifted the Dunblane New title at the age of 11.
4 commentsLeader Dyson gives chasing pack a sniff
Simon Dyson double-bogeyed the last hole to throw the race for the Spanish Open wide open again with a round to go in Seville. In more windy conditions and after a delay of nearly two hours because of a flooded course, the current Irish and Dutch Open champion shot a one-under-par 71 to take over at the top from Gregory Bourdy.
John Huggan: Par for the coarse
The Players has its merits, but Sawgrass’s crude 17th-hole sideshow means it will never be the ‘fifth major’ that PGA chief Tim Finchem craves
Watney takes stage with 64
Nick Watney hit an eight-under-par 64 at the Wells Fargo Championship to lead Webb Simpson by a stroke on 12 under overall as Tiger Woods missed the cut for just the eighth time in his career.
Golf: Wiesberger closes in at Ballantine’s
AUSTRIAN Bernd Wiesberger will take a five-shot lead into today’s final round of the Ballantine’s Championship after carding a second straight 7-under-par 65 at Blackstone Golf Club in Icheon, South Korea.
Women’s golf: Pretswell out to banish ten year hoodoo
IT’S ten years since a Scot last won the Helen Holm Scottish women’s open amateur stroke play golf championship at Troon. But Curtis Cup selection Pamela Pretswell from Hamilton might be just about to banish the hoodoo on home winners in the SLGA’s flagship stroke play tournament.
New Orleans Classic golf: Scot Russell Knox equals course record
SCOTLAND’S Russell Knox, a rookie on the US circuit this year who has made only two cuts in eight starts, fired a superb 64 to tie the course record and share second place with Americans Ken Duke (68) and John Rollins (66) in the second round of the New Orleans Classic in Avondale, Louisiana.
John Huggan: ‘Fixing’ a hole ... or how the custodians of the game made a hash of changing courses to deal with technology
IT IS a sad but undeniable fact that history will not be kind to those charged with the administration of golf over the last two decades or so.
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