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by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 2 months ago
Of all the ways to start the Masters, they do not come much worse than making a double bogey on the 1st hole. Which was exactly what Lee Westwood did, when he hit his drive to the left, clipped a tree coming out, and then made a mess both of a pitch on to the green, which rolled down the wrong side of the slope, and a chip from off it, that ran 15 feet past the hole. Ouch. It would have broken some. But Westwood still ended up two under at the end of the day, and could have done better still.
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by Mathew Nash (RSS feed) - 11 months ago
Which five sports would Team GB expect medals from if they were included at the Olympiad?
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by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 11 months ago
The sun shone brightly over Royal Lytham & St Annes on Wednesday afternoon. Suddenly, the outlook for the 141st Open Championship became infinitely more positive.
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by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 11 months ago
Lee Westwood has taken 57 unsuccessful tilts at a major championship. Over the past four and a bit years the poor man has suffered the searing agony of coming second at a major twice and felt the dull thud of a third-place finish five times. At 39 years of age his window of opportunity is, if not slamming shut, then nudging worryingly at the latch in the breeze.
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by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 1 year ago
So much for the luck of the Irish on an opening day of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth which saw Rory McIlroy fall victim to golf's lurking demons and Graeme McDowell lose out to golf's befuddling rules.
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by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 1 year ago
The world rankings do not lie and neither does Rory McIlroy. Who is the best golfer in the world? "I believe that I am," responded the Northern Irishman with admirable conviction.
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by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 1 year ago
Lee Westwood's major record will be the envy of many. Westwood himself would trade every one of his 10 top-five finishes in golf's four key events for just one moment of glory.
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by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 1 year ago
Rory McIlroy's triumph in an intensely personal contest against Lee Westwood on Sunday proved to be a victory too far for the young Northern Irishman, who succumbed to Hunter Mahan in the final of the Accenture World Match Play in Tucson.