BANGKOK: British Open champion Darren Clarke said on Friday he wants to end a chequered campaign on a winning note at the inaugural $1 million Thailand Golf Championship.
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Former British Open champion Paul Lawrie of Scotland shot a 7-under 65 Thursday to take the early clubhouse lead by three strokes in the opening round at the Dubai World Championship. Lawrie is the 1999 Open winner but has won only once on the European Tour this year and hasn’t had a top-10 finish since May.
British Open champion Darren Clarke completed his final round — a 2-under-par 70 — at the Australian PGA on Sunday more than an hour before the leading groups teed off. Clarke’s early start — the second group of the day at 6:35 a.m. — came after a self-described “brutal” 79 on Saturday, leaving him near the bottom of the 66-man field which made the cut.
Australia’s Steven Bowditch and Choi Joon-woo of South Korea shot rounds of 6-under-par 66 Thursday to take a one-stroke lead after the first day of the Australian PGA and outshine a strong field that includes British Open champion Darren Clarke and Americans Bubba Watson and Rickie Fowler. Bowditch, playing in intermittent afternoon rain, birdied the 17th and 18th holes after a bogey on No.
British Open champion Darren Clarke was a bit bleary-eyed Tuesday as he began the first of four weeks of golf in Australia, South Africa, Dubai and Thailand. Less than 24 hours after arriving from his home in “wet and windy” Portrush, Northern Ireland, he sweated through nine holes of practice at the Hyatt Regency resort course preparing for this week’s Australian PGA Championship on…
British Open champion Darren Clarke was a bit bleary-eyed Tuesday as he began the first of four weeks of golf in Australia, South Africa, Dubai and Thailand. Less than 24 hours after arriving from his home in “wet and windy” Portrush, Northern Ireland, he sweated through nine holes of practice at the Hyatt Regency resort course preparing for this week’s Australian PGA Championship on…
Foursomes, golf’s alternate shot matchplay format, is a “very silly game” and should be dumped from the Presidents Cup, according to five-time British Open champion Peter Thomson.
Ryder Cup star Darren Clarke has defended Tiger Woods’ Presidents Cup selection but believes the Americans will have a tough time toppling Greg Norman’s Internationals at Royal Melbourne next month.Clarke, the British Open champion,…
Ryder Cup star Darren Clarke has defended Tiger Woods’ Presidents Cup selection but believes the Americans will have a tough time toppling Greg Norman’s Internationals at Royal Melbourne next month.Clarke, the British Open champion,…
Former Presidents Cup captain Peter Thomson predicts the International team will claim just its second ever win when it takes on the United States next month at Royal Melbourne. Thomson, the five-time British Open champion who led the International team to its only win — at Royal Melbourne in 1998 — said Wednesday that Greg Norman’s men can repeat the feat at the same venue.
SA’s former British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen has taken a share of the lead after the first round of the Links Championship.
Former British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen put himself in contention for another memorable victory at St.
Former British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen shot a 6-under 66 Thursday at Kingsbarns to grab a share of the first-round lead at the Dunhill Links Championship.
Britain & Ireland will be without four of the world’s top-20 players when the team launches the defense of its Vivendi Seve Trophy title against Continental Europe in Paris next week. Captain Paul McGinley included No. 2-ranked Lee Westwood and British Open champion Darren Clarke in the reigning champions’ lineup on Tuesday, but top-ranked Luke Donald as well as U.S Open champion Rory…
