Archive for September, 2010

15 Year Old Steals Spotlight at Austrian Open

September 20th, 2010

Matthias Schwab, a 15 year old kid from Austria, stole the limelight somewhat from eventual winner Jose Manuel Lara at last weeks Austrian Open. Schwab produced the best ever performance by a 15 year old on The European Tour; his closing 75 leaving him in a share of 32nd.

The Austrian schoolboy, playing on a special sponsors invitation, was within 5 shots of the lead going into Sunday's final round, after shooting successive 69's. Unfortunately Schwab faltered a little in the final round, shooting a 75, but the young Austrian definitely got the golf world's attention and they are sure to be on the look out for him in the next few years.

Whats even more amazing is that Matthias has a younger brother of 14, whom apparently has every bit as much talent as his older brother. Johannes recently came Third in the prestigious English Boys Championship and the future certainly looks bright for his golfing future as well. Don't forget the Schwab name, because these 2 brothers will certainly be making big waves in the golfing world for many years to come and if their practice routine is as difficult as it looks in the pictures below, winning golf tournaments will not be a problem.

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Tiger Woods; Walk on Water

September 17th, 2010

Apparently there was a glitch in the EA Sports 'Tiger Woods 2009' game that let Tiger walk onto the water and play a shot from the pond which he holed out.

Was it a glitch or……?

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DJ gets crowd on their feet!

September 13th, 2010

Dustin Johnson has won the BMW Championship after shooting a final round 2-under 69 to edge out Englishman Paul Casey by 1 shot. Johnson, who is affectionately known as DJ by his friends said that the victory will go a long way in removing the bitter taste of being sensationally disqualified from last months US PGA Championship, "To finally get it done, especially after all the things I've gone through this summer … it can't feel any better," said Johnson.

Johnson now moves into 2nd place on the FedEx Cup standings, giving him the power to control his own destiny, a win in next weeks Tour Championship will give him a guaranteed win of the FedEx Cup. All of the players in the top 5 will win the FedEx Cup should they win next week, the other 25 can still win it, but it will depend on the make-up of the final leaderboard. The other players in the top 5 are Matt Kuchar (1), Charlie Hoffman (3),  Steve Stricker (4) and Paul Casey (5).

Out of the Aussies, Jason Day has a very realistic chance of victory, ranking 6th going into the Tour Championship, Adam Scott and Geoff Ogilvy are both in the top-15, and Robert Allenby snuck into the top-30 ranking 27th.

The most noticeable absentee next week will be defending FedEx Cup Champion and World number 1 Tiger Woods. Tiger did not do enough to crack the top-30 and it is the first time in his career he has not been eligible for a tournament. "That's just the way it is, I didn't play well early in the year, and I didn't play well in the middle of the year" commented Woods, who will now have time to continue improving before the Ryder Cup which gets under way in 2 weeks. In a worrying sign for Corey Pavin, his other 2 captains picks, Stewart Cink and Ricky Fowler also failed to qualify for next weeks Tour Championship.

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FedEx Cup week 2 preview: Deutsche Bank Championship

September 1st, 2010

Official Name: Deutsche Bank Championship

Where: TPC Boston, Norton, Massachusetts

When: September 3-6, 2010

Defending Champion: Steve Stricker (U.S.A)

The race for the 2010 FedEx cup is heating up and this week the top 100 remaining golfers will tee up in Boston to continue their quest to win golfs greatest pay day. Last week was exciting from start to finish, with Matt Kuchar producing a stunning shot in the play off to win The Barclays and become the leader in the FedEx cup. After this week the field for the BMW Championship will be cut to 70, so it is important that all players in the field produce some good golf in order to assure they progress further. As you can see below, Kuchar has a healthy lead, but Steve Stricker who is defending champion this week is easily within striking distance.

Fed-Ex Cup Points Race

  1. Matt Kuchar (3,937),
  2. Steve Stricker (2,572),
  3. Martin Laird (1,977),
  4. Justin Rose (1,860),
  5. Ernie Els (1,851). 

This tournament is also very important for other reasons for the American players, as it will be the last chance for them to impress Corey Pavin before he chooses his 4 captains picks for next months Ryder Cup. During the week Monty announced his captains picks for the Europeans, some of them were a little unexpected so it will be interesting to see which way Pavin will go and whether or not he will pick world number 1 Tiger Woods, who after a disappointing year, missed out on automatic qualification.

European Ryder Cup team:
Lee Westwood (England)
Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland)
Martin Kaymer (Germany)
Graeme McDowell (Northern Ireland)
Ian Poulter (England)
Ross Fisher (England)
Francesco Molinari (Italy)
Peter Hanson (Sweden)
Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spain)
Luke Donald (England)
Padraig Harrington (Ireland)
Edoardo Molinari (Italy)

Lind Golfs Predicted winner: Steve Stricker

Steve Stricker is in great form at the moment, coming off a 3rd place finish last week and he is now sitting 2nd on the FedEx cup standings, not to mention he is the defending champion of the Deutche Bank Championship. He also has a terricic record in the FedEx cup playoff events, with eight  top 10s in 13 events.

Lind Golfs Predicted Top Australian: Adam Scott

This was a hard choice, Adam has been very impressive of late, but so has Jason Day. The reason we decided to go with Scott was simply because he is playing well and is a past champion at TPC Boston. I think it is only a matter of time before Scott wins another USPGA event and given his form of late this could be his week. Don't be suprised if Day has a better week, but I am confident Adam Scott will be there abouts come Sunday.

Broadcast information

The Barclays will be shown Live on Fox Sports.

1st, 2nd & 3rd round – Saturday , Sunday & Monday:

5.00am – 8.00 am Fox Sports 1

4th round  – Tuesday: 4.00am  –  8.00 am Fox Sports 1

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