Adam Scott has climbed to a joint career-high number three in the world rankings following his dramatic Masters victory on Sunday. Scott became the first Australian to win at Augusta after sinking a 15-foot birdie putt on the second extra hole to clinch a playoff victory over Angel Cabrera. He edged past the Argentine to claim the green jacket after the pair had finished locked together on nine-under-par 279 after...
09:45 PM, Apr 15, 2013
The Indian golfer talks about Adam Scott becoming the first Australian to win the Augusta Masters. ...
09:48 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Augusta, Georgia: Adam Scott finished the job this time and put an end to more than a half-century of Australian misery at the Masters. With the two biggest putts of his career, Scott holed a 20-footer for birdie on the 18th hole of regulation that put him into a playoff with Angel Cabrera and then won his first major championship on Sunday with a 12-foot birdie putt on the second...
08:15 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Augusta: Tiger Woods again found himself at the centre of controversy and a target of Twitter-verse on Saturday when he avoided disqualification from the Masters after taking an illegal drop in the second round. While golf's rules are clear that a disqualification was in order, Woods escaped with a two-shot penalty even after admitting in his post-round interview on Friday that he failed to drop his ball as close as...
08:59 AM, Apr 14, 2013
Augusta: The longest, strangest day at the Masters for Tiger Woods began with a text message from his agent Saturday morning to meet with Augusta National officials nearly six hours before his tee time. It ended some 10 hours later with a relieved fist pump for a key par that kept him in the mix for another green jacket. It was far different for the two guys atop the leaderboard....
08:59 AM, Apr 14, 2013
Augusta: Jason Day put himself in prime position once again to end Australia's Masters jinx when he fired a four-under-par 68 to seize the lead at the halfway mark of the year's first major championship on Friday. Day curled in a 13-foot birdie putt at the par-three 16th hole to break a three-way tie and finish at six-under-par 138 on a difficult day of swirling winds and tricky pin placements...
08:14 AM, Apr 13, 2013
Augusta: Sergio Garcia and surprise package Marc Leishman seized joint control in Thursday's opening round at the Masters, though tournament favourite Tiger Woods was lurking just four shots off the pace. On a mainly overcast day at Augusta National where there was very little wind, Spaniard Garcia and Australian Leishman fired six-under-par 66s to surge one stroke clear of the field in the year's opening major. Long-hitting American Dustin Johnson,...
08:39 AM, Apr 12, 2013
Augusta: With a resurgent Tiger Woods once again on the prowl and Rory McIlroy seemingly back in form, golf fans eagerly await the start of the 77th Masters which is now only hours away at Augusta National. The year's opening major is always the most heavily anticipated of the four and, with a myriad of captivating storylines bubbling during the tournament buildup, this latest edition is rich with promise. Though...
08:14 AM, Apr 11, 2013
Augusta, Georgia: The Masters is widening the weekend field for this week's tournament and granting automatic entry next year to more PGA Tour winners, Augusta National chairman Billy Payne said on Wednesday. The cut for the 93-player field will be expanded by six to the top 50 and ties, along with those within 10 strokes of the lead, to include more players in the final two rounds of the year's...
03:23 AM, Apr 11, 2013
Augusta: Golf fans have drooled in anticipation of a one-two rivalry between Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, but the mop-topped Northern Irishman said on Tuesday that talk was premature. "I don't see myself a rival to Tiger or to anyone," McIlroy said on Tuesday before a practice round at Augusta National ahead of Thursday's opening round of the Masters. McIlroy, proclaiming himself 100 percent comfortable with his golf swing and...
03:23 AM, Apr 10, 2013
Augusta: Hot favourite and four-times champion Tiger Woods has been grouped with Britain's Luke Donald and American Scott Piercy for the first two rounds of this week's Masters. Woods, who has won three events in just five starts on the 2013 PGA Tour, is scheduled to tee off at 10:45 am in Thursday's opening round at Augusta National. Though world number one Woods has not triumphed at the Masters since...
01:31 AM, Apr 10, 2013
Augusta: Guan Tianlang answered questions about his readiness to play the Masters at the record-setting age of 14 when he gave two-times champion Ben Crenshaw a putting lesson at the 18th hole at Augusta National on Monday. And the Chinese prodigy was not done, heading out at the end of the day with his idol, Tiger Woods, for nine more holes and taking time for some fun trying to skip...
11:51 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Augusta: Former British Open champion Darren Clarke has pulled out of this week's US Masters because of a lingering hamstring injury, the Northern Irishman said on Monday. The 44-year-old, who has made 11 appearances in the season's first major championship, suffered the injury just over a week ago while holidaying on the Bahamas island of Abaco. "It is with deep regret that I will not be able to play at...
10:25 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: Australian Wade Ormsby claimed a nerve-jangling maiden Asian Tour golf title at the Panasonic Open India to deny Thai veteran Boonchu Ruangkit from a historic victory at the Delhi Golf Club on Sunday. Ormsby overcame a disastrous triple bogey on the third hole to shoot a final round one-under-par 71 to win the $300,000 tournament by one stroke from the 56-year-old Boonchu, who was bidding to become the...
06:38 PM, Apr 07, 2013
San Antonio: Billy Horschel held off an experienced leaderboard to shoot 2-under 70 and take a two-shot lead entering the final round of the Texas Open on Saturday. Horschel, who also held the lead after the second round, battled through the gusting San Antonio wind to reach 10 under overall - two shots ahead of Jim Furyk and Charley Hoffman. Horschel was second at last week's Houston Open and extended...
08:23 AM, Apr 07, 2013
New Delhi: Shiv Kapur braved tough conditions to manage an even par 72 to be tied third while Jyoti Randhawa fired a flawless five-under 67 to jump to sole fifth after the third round of the Panasonic Open India, here on Saturday. Manav Jaini (68) rose from tied 22nd to the sixth spot, which he shares with defending champion Digvijay Singh, who played a third straight one-under 71, and was...
07:14 PM, Apr 06, 2013
Double US Open champion Curtis Strange has hit out at Nick Faldo and Johnny Miller for criticising world number two Rory McIlroy's recent switch of club manufacturers. McIlroy ditched his Titleist equipment at the start of the year but Strange believes the 23-year-old Northern Irishman's slump in form is nothing to do with the change he has made. "I don't think clubs have anything to do with it at all,"...
07:11 PM, Apr 06, 2013
San Antonio: Rory McIlroy matched the low round of the day with a 5-under par 67 and moved within three shots of the lead at the Texas Open on Friday, continuing his surge toward next week's Masters. The world's No. 2 golfer, who decided to play in the tournament late last week, had seven birdies - including his final three holes - and overcame a bogey on No. 9 after...
08:36 AM, Apr 06, 2013
New Delhi: India's SSP Chowrasia was lying at third position after he shot a second straight 69 to be six-under at the end of the second day at Panasonic Open India here on Friday. Australian Wade Ormsby, seeking his first professional title, added a second straight 67 to move to 10-under 134, while Lam Chih-bing had a bogey-bogey finish to drop from 10-under to eight-under to be at second place...
10:22 PM, Apr 05, 2013
San Antonio: Matt Bettencourt and Peter Tomasulo shot 5-under 67s to take a surprising share of the lead after the first round of the Texas Open on Thursday, holding off a field that includes world No. 2 Rory McIlroy. The two took advantage of warmer and calmer afternoon conditions and held a one-stroke lead over a group of four players - including three-time major winner Padraig Harrington - at 4...
09:12 AM, Apr 05, 2013
