Aug 11th, 2015 Article
Ed's Letter PGA Week
Ed's Letter PGA Week. Including Help The Gravy, Bunch Of Arse and the GP Jukebox
Ed's Letter PGA Week. Including Help The Gravy, Bunch Of Arse and the GP Jukebox
It’s Manic Monday, so here is a very quick round up of all the results and stories from the weekend on the, PGA Tour, European Tour, LPGA and Women’s European Tour.
Jorgo Campillo moved into the halfway lead at the Horizon Irish Open after the Spaniard carded a four under second round 68 at Mount Juliet Estate, where home favourites Séamus Power and Shane Lowry put on a thrilling late show for the jubilant Irish fans.
India’s Anirban Lahiri who is ranked 322 in the world is the surprise leader of The Players Championship at Sawgrass. Five birdies in his first nine of his curtailed third saw Lahiri top the leaderboard a shot clear of Americans Harold Varner III and Tom Hoge. Lahiri has won twice on the DP World Tour and has had multiple wins on the Asian Tour but a win at Sawgrass would be a different level.
It's the Irish Open this week, and the Spiv has worked out who you should be putting your hard earned cash on. Cracking value to be had.
Leicester are on the verge of doing the unimaginable: Winning the Premier League title at odds of 5000-1. We look at the times a rank outsider has done the same on the golf course...
If you haven't got Sky at home, you might want to get your eyes on this. Last night Rickie Fowler continued his good form to take the lead at the Waste Management Phoenix Open.
They needed it to be tough out there if they were going to challenge Shane Lowry but in the end, it was too tough and the conditions actually played in to the hands of the big man. For a man who grew up playing links golf up and down Ireland he was always going to be one of best equipped if the really high winds came.
Here are the tee times and pairing for the first two days of the 2017 Masters. And the top groupings.
Someone clever once said: ‘Golf is a game in which you yell ‘Fore’, score six and write down five’. Mind you, he could have been wrong, as these 10 confessors comprehensively prove otherwise.
So the votes are in. Well, not exactly votes. The opposite of votes. It all came down on Darren Clarke's shoulders. Who would be his three Captain's picks for Hazeltine?
A rampant team Europe regained the Ryder Cup in a thrilling final-day showdown against the USA amidst a carnival atmosphere at the Marco Simone Golf & Country Club in Rome