Dubai: Rafael Cabrera-Bello held his nerve against a star-studded field Sunday to win the Dubai Desert Classic, shooting a 4-under 68 to beat Lee Westwood and Stephen Gallacher by one shot for his second European Tour victory. Westwood and Gallacher could have forced a playoff in the windy conditions but both players missed their birdie putts on the 18th. That brought a groan from the packed gallery but a broad...
12:12 PM, Feb 13, 2012
Pebble Beach, California: Phil Mickelson went from a six-shot deficit to a two-shot lead in just six holes, closed with an 8-under 64 for a two-shot victory over Charlie Wi and gave Tiger Woods a thrashing at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am on Sunday not many saw coming. Mickelson and Woods played in the second-to-last group, and Mickelson beat him by 11 shots. He won for the fourth time at...
08:31 AM, Feb 13, 2012
Dubai: Jeev Milkha Singh signed off the Dubai Desert Classic with a tame 73 and dropped to tied 37th even as Spaniard Rafael Cabrera-Bello held his nerve to beat Lee Westwood (70) and Stephen Gallacher (64) on Sunday. Cabrera-Bello tallied 18-under 270, while Westwood and Gallacher were at 17-under 271. Jeev, making his 14th appearance in the Middle-East's oldest event on the European Tour, had a birdie on the fourth...
08:14 PM, Feb 12, 2012
Pebble Beach, California: Tiger Woods ran off five birdies in a six-hole span to charge up the leaderboard at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am Saturday. It was only enough to make up a little ground on Charlie Wi, who played bogey-free at Spyglass Hill for a 3-under 69 to build a three-shot lead as he searches for his first U.S. PGA Tour win. Meanwhile, India's Arjun Atwal crashed out after...
11:42 AM, Feb 12, 2012
Pebble Beach, California: Arjun Atwal's woes continued as he shot a second round 77 to slip to almost the bottom of the leaderboard, but it was not highly likely that he would make the cut after three rounds at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. He was nine-over for two days at the par-70 Monterey Peninsula course, the same as Daniel Chopra, who shot 77 at the par-72 Pebble Beach....
11:27 PM, Feb 11, 2012
Dubai: Jeev Milkha Singh shot a two-under 70 but still found himself falling three places at the end of third round of the Omega Dubai Desert Classic here on Saturday. He shot 70 but still dropped to tied 29th, down from overnight 26th. The Indian had three birdies on the front nine on fourth, fifth and seventh and one on 12th on the back stretch, but bogeys on sixth and...
07:29 PM, Feb 11, 2012
Manila: Despite a round of 74, Rahil Gangjee managed to move up one place to be placed tied 16th at the end of the third round of the ICTSI Philippine Open here on Saturday. Gangjee was now three-over for 54 holes as only three players were under par for the tournament, with another two on even par at a wind-swept Wack Wack Golf and Country Club's East course. Conditions continued...
07:17 PM, Feb 11, 2012
Dubai: Jeev Milkha Singh found the going tough as he dropped five bogeys, two in his last thee holes, to end up with a card of 73 and slip from overnight 11th to tied 26th at the midway stage of the Dubai Desert Classic on Friday. Another Indian, SSP Chowrasia, however, missed the cut with a 79. On a day when the scores and scoring conditions were once again good,...
07:31 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Manila: It was tough day out there for the Indians as only four of the eight who started survived the midway cut at the ICTSI Philippine Open on Friday. Rahil Gangjee, who was close to missing the cut after a first day 75, shot a two-under 70, one of the few under-par rounds to leap up to tied 17th at the halfway stage. On a tough day also making the...
07:09 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Dubai: India's Jeev Milkha Singh shot a 5-under 67 to tie for 11th after the opening round of the Dubai Desert Classic on Thursday. SSP Chowrasia earned three strokes fewer than his compatriot to share the 35th spot. Meanwhile, Rafael Cabrera-Bello made nine birdies in his first 11 holes to take the lead, finishing with a 9-under 63 to sit two strokes ahead of Marcel Siem and Scott Jamieson. The...
07:49 PM, Feb 09, 2012
London: Tiger Woods' joint third-place finish at the Abu Dhabi Championship showed the former world number one was getting closer to regaining his imperious form of old. For the opening three rounds in the desert heat of the Middle East, the 36-year-old American was almost metronomically accurate with his irons and stunningly precise off the tee. Woods's putter was cold on the first day but from then on he found...
05:19 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Ahmedabad: Max Kieffer of Germany made his first-ever visit to India a memorable one by edging out Rahil Gangjee in the first play-off hole to win the Gujarat Kensville Challenge here on Saturday. At the beautiful but very demanding Kensville Course, which has been designed by Col KD Bagga and carries Jeev Milkha Singh's signature, Gangjee (71) and Kieffer (70) finished the regulation four rounds tied at seven-under 281. In...
08:31 PM, Jan 29, 2012
Abu Dhabi: Robert Rock held his nerve Sunday to beat U.S. Open champion Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods at the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship for the biggest win of the Englishman's career. The 117th-ranked Rock shot a 2-under 70 for an overall 13-under 275 to beat the 22-year Northern Irishman by a shot and the 14-major winner by two. Woods finished in a tie for third with Thomas Bjorn (68)...
08:17 PM, Jan 29, 2012
Abu Dhabi: Tiger Woods shot a 6-under 66 Saturday for a share of the lead after the third round at the Abu Dhabi Championship. The 14-time major winner played a consistent round to move to 11 under for the tournament. "It just seemed like I didn't do a lot of things right but I didn't do a lot of things wrong today, it was just very consistent," Woods said. "You...
08:47 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Ahmedabad: Rahil Gangjee went through a gamut of emotions with a bogey and double bogey and two birdies in the last four holes, but in the end came out with a one-shot lead at the end of the third round of the Gujarat Kensville Challenge 2012. His one-over 73 on a very tough scoring day brought him down from overnight seven-under to six-under 210 for 54 holes. However, Shiv Kapur,...
07:35 PM, Jan 28, 2012
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