Category: Golf

April 15th, 2013 Golf Comments Off

2013 Masters Golf: Adam Scott wins the tiebreaker with Angel Cabrera and conquer the green jacket

From Sunday the select list of winners Masters has a new name. This is the Australian Adam Scott who took the green jacket after a thrilling final round in which the winner was decided in the tiebreaker instance you mentioned Scott arrived and Argentine Angel Cabrera also came very close to getting the title would have been the second to him.

On the final day of the tournament we had emotion, good golf and some of the associated mythical Augusta which was reflected in the agonized tiebreaker played in the rain. A rain that accompanied the leaders throughout his tour and that forced them to adapt to the new conditions of the Greens.

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Angel Cabrera, Jason Day and Adamm Scott were those best positioned face to win the tournament on the last hole but the classification gave several rollovers due to birdies that escaped by just centimeters and bogeys which came due to pressure by the triumph. Read more »

April 13th, 2013 Golf, Sports News Comments Off

2013 Masters Golf: Jason Day takes over, Garcia and Fernandez-Castano to 4 strokes

The Masters completed its second day Friday that overall was more complicated than the first because of the difficulty of the flags and the weather conditions that drove up the average blows that participants needed to cover the route. At the end of the day, Jason Day remained as sole leader but the chasing pack is fairly nourished.

The wind complicated the game golfers and men suffered so as Sergio Garcia and Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano. The Castellon was over as leader on the first day which made 66 shots but the second went to 76, a lot grayer card with four bogeys, two of them in the first few holes where rain accompanied him.

2013 Masters Golf

He also suffered such inclement Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano made 74 strokes but is tied for 14th place with Garcia, 4 strokes off the lead and keep climbing options positions. Read more »

December 30th, 2012 Golf, Sports Tips Comments Off

How to hit a golf ball far right

Learning to driver a golf ball is a difficult task. This can take time and practice to become proficient at constant hit this club’s. Why the driver is the hardest club to hit because it is the longest club in the bag that makes it more difficult to control. Therefore all the kinks in your swing can cause large variations in the final result so that the driver will reveal how finely tuned your swing really is. Do not expect to be perfect to hit a driver that even the best golf professionals regularly playing badly this club.

Instead focus on developing consistent enough to allow you to hit fairways with quite a sufficient distance so that you can then use your short game to make more birdies and shoot low scores. It is important to learn how to hit a driver well and right because golf courses are more difficult if you need both distance and accuracy. The good news is that there is a direct relationship between hitting a golf ball with precision and strike further. Read more »

December 10th, 2012 Golf, Ranking Comments Off

Carlota Ciganda end number one ranking of the Ladies European Tour

The golf season came to an end and if I talked before the spectacular year of Rory McIlroy who finished the season as the best player on the men’s tour, today we cannot pass up the opportunity to devote an article to Carlota Ciganda. The young Spanish golfer has also signed a spectacular year and finished number one ranking Ladies European Tour … and that was the year of its debut.

Carlota Ciganda

Ciganda, 22, has spent his entire life dedicated to the world of golf where he has won titles in all the categories. The Navarre golfer takes his career very well run and in 2008 decided to train in the U.S. successfully. In 2011 he could have decided to go to the American circuit that is where there are more tournaments and more prizes are distributed but decided to go step by step and spend the year on the European circuit that has finished first in the year of its debut, a feat I had only gotten Laura Davies, an icon with 82 women’s golf tournaments in their windows. Read more »

December 9th, 2012 Golf Comments Off

Rory McIlroy, the golfer of the year

As each new yea, it is time to take stock and talk about the best and the worst, and in the world of golf, the best has Name: Rory McIlroy. The golfer born in Northern Ireland has been chosen by his peers as the best of the year, in a vote that has stood out over four other candidates: Tiger Woods, Brandt Snedeker, Bubba Watson, and Jason Dufner.

McIlroy

The young golfer was the favorite to win this award, it is talking about McIlroy’s number one talk this 2012, both the European Tour and in the U.S., where it has exceeded 8 million in profits. And talk about a boy of only 23 years. Since the Tuger Woods achieved it in 1998, neither as young as McIlroy player had achieved this award or had reached such merits. Read more »

November 3rd, 2012 Golf Comments Off

THE GLOBAL ELITE EXPECTED S.-M. JUNEAU

A month ago, the golfer Sara-Maude Juneau became the fifth Quebecer in history to get his card LPGA. Due to its tenth place finish in the Symetra Tour, she can live her dream to compete in the world elite of his sport after only a year and a half on the circuit-school. During a visit to Quebec for a few days holiday and to celebrate its 25th anniversary, the athlete Ste-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier just started a month later, to savor the magnitude of his achievement. “I’m just starting to realize what happens to me. In one month, my life has changed a lot here.

Sara-Maude Juneau

During my week of vacation in Quebec, I slowly begin to realize what I’ve done, “said Sara-Maude Juneau. Though she believes in his chances and abilities, Sara-Maude admits she crossed steps quickly. “Of course it was not long, but I’m used to quite quickly when the pace of life that it took. I was really happy with the result.’ Read more »

October 30th, 2012 Golf Comments Off

WOODS MCILROY AHEAD A LITTLE HELP

ZHENGZHOU, China – Rory McIlroy had the best deal with Tiger Woods in the first-season individual duel between two of the best golfers in the world. Woods hope he has plenty of opportunities to enjoy his revenge. McIlroy played 67, five under par, and he defeated Woods by a shot in a game of 18 holes between the first two golfers in the world rankings on Monday at Jinsha Lake Golf Club in Zhengzhou, China.

Tiger Woods

Event, called “The duel Jinsha Lake,” marked the first confrontation between the two individual. It will not be the last. Woods said he wants the chance to rub more often McIlroy to create a rivalry between the best golfers, similar to that which exists between the tennis Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray. Read more »

October 29th, 2012 Golf Comments Off

NICK WATNEY WINS IN MALAYSIA

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Nick Watney missed an opportunity to play 59 committing a bogey on the 18th hole of the CIMB Classic Sunday, but that did not prevent him from establishing a course record by submitting a final map of 61 ( under-10) which allowed him to clinch the victory on the course The Mines. Watney, who needed a birdie on the 18th hole, a par-4, to play 59, sent his tee shot into the long grass to the left of the driveway. It could then send his approach shot on the green and missed his next shot for a birdie.

Nick Watney

The American still posted a cumulative score of minus-22 (262) and pocketed a purse U.S. $ 1.3 million for non-official tournament on the PGA Tour. He finished one stroke ahead of the champion of the event in 2011, Bo Van Pelt and Robert Garrigus, three strokes ahead of Tiger Woods. This tournament will be officially part of the PGA Tour schedule next year, when the new campaign gets underway in October after the FedEx Cup. Garrigus Van Pelt and finished tied for second place, after they handed out cards identical to 66 (least-5). Read more »

October 25th, 2012 Golf Comments Off

PADRAIG HARRINGTON ENJOYS HIS CHANCE

SOUTHAMPTON – Padraig Harrington won a tournament for the first time in two years, although the PGA Grand Slam is a competition-season. Four days after agreeing to replace the British Open champion Ernie Els, Harrington signed three birdies in a row at the beginning of round 67 en route to a victory by giving him a blow before the U.S. Open champion, Webb Simpson.

Padraig Harrington

Harrington, who won three majors, had not won a tournament from Johor Open on the Asian Tour in 2010. On Wednesday, he prevailed with an overall score of 133, nine under par. The victory earns $ 600,000. “It feels good and should be enjoyed because victories do not happen as often as you think,” summarized Harrington. Read more »

October 23rd, 2012 Golf Comments Off

PETTERSEN RESIST UNTIL THE VERY END

INCHEON, South Korea – Suzann Pettersen won the Championship after defeating HanaBank Catriona Matthew by wedging a birdie on the third playoff hole Sunday, and enjoying his ninth career title on the LPGA Tour. Pettersen, who led by seven strokes ahead of Matthew at the dawn of the final round, carded a 74 (plus-2) en route to a cumulative score of less than 11 on-course Ocean Golf Club Sky 72. Matthew, who is under 43, has played 67.

Suzann Pettersen

Pettersen, a Norwegian who had also won the tournament in 2007, had built a lead of five strokes ahead of South Korea’s So Yeon Ryu after three rounds. She had started the tournament by making a course record (63) on Friday, and was followed with a round of 68 tomorrow. Matthew, a Scot, had a two-stroke cushion after Pettersen had committed a double-bogey on the 12th, a par-3. Pettersen has rebounded with a birdie on the 14th and Matthew has committed a bogey on the 16th, forcing both players to be on an equal footing at least-11. Read more »

 

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