Corey Pavin and Fred Couples made it feel like the 1990s all over again as they worked their way onto a crowded leaderboard at Riviera, the course where they combined to win four times in a six-year stretch. Turns out they weren’t the only ones who gave a retro look to the convoluted first round of the Northern Trust Open.
Corey
Pavin rolled back the years with a superb display over his
first 12 holes to snatch the outright lead at the Northern
Trust Open on Thursday before faltering at the finish.
The redness in Corey Pavin’s left eye was so evident that when a reporter asked him what happened, Pavin playfully covered it with his hand and replied, “What do you mean?” It was just a case of pink eye, although Pavin would have reason to shed tears this week. The former U.S. Open champion and Ryder Cup captain played his first PGA Tour event at Riviera in 1980, when he was a…
• Love takes over for September 2012 match at Medinah
• This is a thrill I never thought I’d have, says 46-year-old
Davis Love III was in tears within minutes of being confirmed as the USA Ryder Cup captain today, being unable to hold back the tears when asked how proud his late father would be of his appointment.
The 46-year-old, a six-time member of the USA team, lost his father in a plane crash in 1988 and said: “This is a thrill I never thought I would have and I would love to share it with him.”
Love, who was one of Corey Pavin’s vice-captains at Celtic Manor last year, believes a key to winning back the trophy at Medinah in Chicago next year will be getting his team relaxed. “My main mission is to get the players prepared for Friday morning,” he said after being confirmed as Pavin’s successor, three months after the 14½-13½ defeat in South Wales
“What we have been missing is getting over the nerves of being ready to play on the biggest stage. We’ve just tried too hard and I’ll be trying to get the players as relaxed and freed up as I can. I am a players’ captain and I’m going to get them what they need to be successful. I’m not going to tell the best players in the world how to play golf. I’m going to let them show their talents.”
* Love succeeds Pavin as U.S. Cup captain
Love, 46, was an assistant to Pavin for the last edition of golf’s premier team event, which Europe won by one point at Celtic Manor Resort in Wales in October.
After weeks of leaks to make the announcement seemingly anticlimactic, the PGA of America introduced Davis Love III as the successor to Corey Pavin as the American Ryder Cup captain. He will lead the team into Medinah in 2012 in an attempt to win the Ryder Cup back on American soil and take the matches for the second time in three tries.
DAVIS Love III, who faced Jose Maria Olazabal at the start of his Ryder Cup career in 1983 at The Belfry, is set to be confirmed as the opposing captain to the Spaniard at Med
Love was an obvious candidate for the PGA of America given his Ryder Cup experience (though not all of it positive — in six matches, he’s only been on two winning teams, is 9-12-5 overall, his longtime connection to the organization as the son of a beloved club club pro, and the fact that he was an assistant to Corey Pavin this year at Davis Love III.
The Americans are taking their time over naming a successor to Corey Pavin as Ryder Cup captain.
Sun Oct 24, 8:06 pm ET THE WOODLANDS, Texas Fred Couples left Corey Pavin and everybody else way behind in the Administaff Small Business Classic, shooting a 9-under 63 on Sunday for a seven-stroke victory.
Fred Couples left Corey Pavin and everybody else way behind in the Administaff Small Business Classic, shooting a 9-under 63 on Sunday for a seven-stroke victory.
U.S. Ryder Cup captain Corey Pavin shot a 4-under 68 on Saturday to maintain a one-stroke lead in the Champions Tour’s Administaff Small Business Classic.
U.S. Ryder Cup captain Corey Pavin shot a 4-under 68 on Saturday to maintain a one-stroke lead in the Champions Tour’s Administaff Small Business Classic.
