Blog Profile / BBC - Golf Blog
| URL : | http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/golf/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Sports / Golf | |
| Posts on Regator: | 60 | |
| Posts / Week: | 0.6 | |
| Archived Since: | July 6, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
Wilson looking to save career
Embarking on the week that could save his golfing career Oliver Wilson didn't know which way to turn.
Well that's not exactly true. The Englishman knew he would be turning right at the plane door to a seat in economy but the former Ryder Cup star couldn't be sure of the aircraft's destination.
This was his situation only last Saturday. Show More Summary
Poulter tipifies European pride
Follow that Gleneagles. In two years when the Ryder Cup comes to Scotland the event's status as a sporting spectacle will never have been higher.
It is amazing how the legend of this biennial clash between Europe and the United States...Show More Summary
Ryder Cup 2012: Should Lee Westwood play all five sessions?
Lee Westwood departed the Tour Championship defiantly stating he would be ready for the Ryder Cup despite finishing dead last in the 30-man field.
Not only that, the 39-year-old who was 15 over par at East Lake, insisted he was readying...Show More Summary
McIlroy is the best since Ballesteros
Rory McIlroy's latest win, his third from his last four outings during a sensational month in the United States, confirms him as Europe's greatest young talent since the emergence of Severiano Ballesteros nearly four decades ago.
But...Show More Summary
Magnificent McIlroy casts a huge shadow
Golf has been waiting for someone to break from the shadows and with a loping yet triumphant stride Rory McIlroy did exactly that with his second major victory.
The 23-year old from Northern Ireland was always the most likely candidate...Show More Summary
Forget London 2012, this is 'Glory's Last Shot'
Incredulity best describes the Charleston taxi driver's reaction when I told him I had just arrived from London.
"Why would you wanna leave there with those Olympics going on?" he asked as the rain battered his vehicle in the South Carolina...Show More Summary
Els route to Open win has been anything but 'Easy'
They call him the "Big Easy" but the journey for Ernie Els has been anything but simple.
The imposing South African with the effortless swing has made vast sums of money from golf and his dramatic Open victory on Sunday took him into...Show More Summary
Can Scott handle final-round pressure?
Pressure will do funny things to a man. Not the real pressure of feeding a family or saving a life but sporting pressure. It's that feeling of being so close and yet so damned far from achieving your dreams. No matter how big or small.
Adam...Show More Summary
Snedeker hits the bar and sinks under par
Brandt Snedeker has hit on what he thinks is the perfect formula for the Open Championship; Boring golf, local beer and the voice of Tom Watson in his head.
It is working, because the "happy-go-lucky" American with the sun-bleached hair matched the lowest halfway score in Open history with rounds of 66, 64 over the last two days on the Fylde coast. Show More Summary
Westwood faces major challenge
The old adage says you can't win the tournament on the first day but you can lose it.
Lee Westwood is on the brink of testing that out.
The Englishman was feted by many as the Open champion-elect at Royal Lytham this week, given theShow More Summary
Open 2012: Enough about the golf
It was a freak show 11 years in the making as David Duval faced the press back at Royal Lytham.
Yet David Duval is no freak. Deep thinking, complicated, honest, articulate, possibly highly strung, yes. But freak? No. And he doesn't want pity. Show More Summary
Pundits pick their Open winner
They say talk is cheap, but it is not if it yields the winner of the Open.
The time for cogitating, pontificating, blustering and plain making stuff up is over.
Here, then, are the learned predictions of golf's finest media brains. Who is going to win at Royal Lytham & St Annes? Read on.
Iain Carter, BBC golf correspondent
Winner: Lee Westwood. Show More Summary
Ken Brown's school days: Seve's Lytham magic
The Open and iconic moments go hand in hand, and Royal Lytham has had more than its fair share.
The championship returns to the venerable old links for the 11th time this week, but without one of its favourite sons.
It was on the Fylde coast that the legend of Seve Ballesteros was born and later sealed. Show More Summary
Clarke hoping to repeat Sandwich miracle
Darren Clarke is living proof that anything could happen in this week's Open Championship at Royal Lytham and St Annes.
Twelve months ago, the Northern Ireland star turned up for his 20th crack at trying to land the game's oldest and most prestigious title. Show More Summary
Fear and loathing in Royal Lytham
Remember Car-nasty? Royal Lytham could become Royal Loathe 'em by the end of this week.
The Open is back on the Fylde coast for the first time since David Duval won in 2001, and the early signs are that a monster lies in wait.
The thick...Show More Summary
Consistency is the key at 'unusual' Royal Lytham
English major winners are rarer than a glorious British summer these days. Winners of the Open Championship are even more scarce.
It is now 20 years since Nick Faldo finished his burst of three Open titles. Before the first, in 1987,...Show More Summary
What are the perfect preparations for the Open?
Someone, somewhere is getting it right. Either by design or by accident, one golfer this week will arrive upon a formula to win the 2012 Open Championship at Royal Lytham.
What form and circumstance it takes is as big a question as the identity of the player who finds it. Show More Summary
Can Tiger roar once again at Royal Lytham?
The needle on the gauge has oscillated all season. One week it aims firmly at the point that says "he's back" and the next it veers to an area that suggests "he's not".
Call it the Tigerometre and golf's current barometric conditions mean the indicator shows he has emphatically returned to the "back" phase.
This is because Tiger Woods has won again. Show More Summary
Donald hopes to climb staircase to major heaven
Heading into the final competitive showdown before the US Open, the world's leading two players have yet again swapped positions in an absorbing game of golfing snakes and ladders.
Rory McIlroy's two-day encounter with a metaphoric Wentworth...Show More Summary
Golf can no longer be slow on the uptake
As Colin Montgomerie was supporting a radical idea to speed up slow play, Doug Brecht - an official who barely stirs the mercury in the thermometer of fame - was becoming golf's newest hero.
The LPGA rules man took a huge step in imposing...Show More Summary