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Nick Dougherty not afraid of failing after losing card

By admin on May 10, 2012 in

SANTO DA SERRA, Madeira Islands (AP) — Ryder Cup golfer Nick Dougherty returns from a six-week absence from competition looking forward to the birth of his first child and playing without a fear of failure.
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Dougherty is among four former Ryder Cup players and six former champions competing Thursday in the Madeira Islands Open.

It is only Dougherty’s third event this season after competing in two Challenge Tour events, capped by a tie for fourth in the Colombia Classic in March. He’s lost all playing rights on the European Tour, where he’s won three times, so he’s concentrating on the Challenge Tour.

“It’s been a long time since I can say I am looking forward to my golf as I just punished myself so hard trying to hold onto my main European Tour card,” he said after Wednesday’s pro-am. “I just didn’t want to go out and play but I had to. Then when I did, I played absolutely horrible. Now if I don’t play well, then it’s not going to get me down.”钱柜网

He won’t compete in the BMW PGA Championship on May 24, his 30th birthday. It’s a tournament he’s played every year since 2002.

“I am looking to build back my confidence, and if I manage to win back my European Tour card, then well and good,” he said. “If not, I will stick out here on the Challenge Tour. There’s just not the intensity or the hype around the main tour.”钱柜

Dougherty married former TV presenter Di Stewart in 2010 at St. Andrews and the couple expects their first child, a boy, in August.

“I can’t wait to become a father and Di and I are so much looking forward to the birth,” he said. “She’s here with me this week and that’s great.”尤尼克斯羽毛球拍

Others in the field include former Ryder Cup players Phil Price, Niclas Fasth, Oliver Wilson and Jarmo Sandelin.

The former Madeira Islands winners who will tee up are Spain’s Santiago Luna (1995), Sandelin (1996), Fasth (2000), Welshman Bradley Dredge (2003), Argentina’s Daniel Vancsik (2007) and Scotland’s Alastair Forsyth (2008).

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Curtis wins Texas Open for first Tour win since 2006

By admin on April 26, 2012 in

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Six years later, Ben Curtis is a PGA Tour champion again.

His victory Sunday in the Texas Open didn’t come easy. Neither did his words describing the redemption of nearly a decade spent falling from British Open champion to, this year, waiting by the phone simply for a chance to play.

His voice quivered, and his eyes welled up.

“It’s been a tough couple years just fighting through it,” Curtis said.ping drivers

Holding off Matt Every and John Huh in a tense back-nine finish, Curtis finished with flourish by holing a 12-footer for birdie on the par-5 18th, sealing a two-stroke victory and his fourth PGA Tour title. His even-par 72 put him at 9 under and triggered a wave of emotions that Curtis said he didn’t know were in him.ping irons

Curtis won $1,116,000 and a two-year tour exemption – a more meaningful reward after being relegated to a status so low that this victory came in just the fourth PGA Tour event he managed to get into this year.

“You think you’re just staying positive and not worried about it, but I think deep down, you realize all the hard work you put in that, you know, finally paid off,” Curtis said.callaway irons

It was 2003 when Curtis kissed the Claret Jug at Royal St. George’s with a square jawline and closely cropped black hair. This time, he was handed a pair of cowboy boots, smiling with a rounder face and a better appreciation of the journey.

“When you come out here and win one, well, if I win one every year I have a great career. That would be true,” Curtis said. “But, you know, to get to three, four, five wins – you’re a solid player. I just feel like you get yourself into contention and just have that belief, and anything can happen.”

Every had a 71 and lost a chance at his first tour win with a shaky putter. Huh roared back with a 69, but the Mayakoba Classic winner fell just short of completing what would have been a remarkable comeback.

Huh nearly withdrew Thursday when he plunged to 5 over through only his first three holes and finished with a 77. But he rebounded with rounds of 68 and 67 to give Curtis and Every another player to worry about Sunday.r11 driver

“I didn’t really expect too much, final round,” Huh said.

While Huh’s first round was ultimately too big of a hole to overcome, Every couldn’t close the deal after starting the tournament with a course-record 63. Four blown putts from 9 feet or closer – including a 6-footer for birdie – kept Every a stroke back until Curtis birdied No. 18.

It was nonetheless a validating week for the 28-year-old Floridian, whose only name recognition in three winless years on the tour was a misdemeanor marijuana arrest as a rookie in 2010. That earned a PGA Tour suspension, and even now, Every’s official biography lists regaining his tour privileges as his biggest achievement.rocketballz driver

“A little bummed out,” Every said. “Kind of a pillow fight there for a while between the three of us.”

If missing one badly needed putt after another was a learning experience, Every didn’t want to hear it.

“Been hearing that for about 15 years,” Every said. “But I don’t know, man. I mean they got to go in sometimes and it didn’t today, but maybe it will one day. Saving for something bigger, maybe.”

Defending champion Brendan Steele, a distant afterthought for three rounds, made himself known again at TPC San Antonio with a bogey-free 67 to finish an impressive weekend climb from 56th. He tied for fourth with Bob Estes (69), Brian Gay (70), and Charlie Wi (71) at 5 under.

Curtis wasn’t the only emotional player on No. 18. Scott Piercy walked to the final hole tied for fourth at 5 under but walked off snapping his putter in half with two furious strikes over his knee. That was after the tour journeyman quadruple-bogeyed in a meltdown that started with a penalty stroke and ended with him tossing his glove in disgust after two-putting.r11s driver

Piercy finished the round at par and eig

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Louis Oosthuizen wins Malaysian Open

By admin on April 16, 2012 in

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Louis Oosthuizen won the Malaysian Open by three shots

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Louis Oosthuizen won the Malaysian Open on Sunday, a week after losing a playoff to Bubba Watson in the Masters.

The South African completed a 3-under 69 in the rain-delayed third round, then closed with a 68 for a three-stroke victory over Scotland’s Stephen Gallacher.TaylorMade R11s Drivers

“I was a little surprised to win here after that,” Oosthuizen said. “I thought I would be a lot more tired. My golf was a bit up and down in the morning at the end of the third round, but I settled down and played well later.”Ping G20

The 2010 British Open champion finished at 17-under 271 on Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club’s West Course.

Gallacher shot a 70. American David Lipsky also closed with a 70 to tie for third at 12 under with Spain’s Rafael Cabrera-Bello and England’s Danny Willett. Cabrera-Bello and Willett shot 71.titleist 910D3 Driver

The tournament was sanctioned by the European and Asian tours.

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Convict gives golf lessons to police captain from jail

By admin on April 7, 2012 in

The tiny jail on Catalina Island is hardly Alcatraz. Just ask Frank Carrillo.

The pro golfer turned jewel thief couldn’t believe his luck when he was moved out of his bleak Men’s Central Jail cell in downtown L.A. and allowed to do his time on the sunny tourist isle.titleist drivers

But things got even cushier when he met a Los Angeles County sheriff’s captain interested in shaving a few strokes off his golf game.

Carrillo said Capt. Jeff Donahue escorted him in a patrol Jeep to a hilltop golf course last summer. There, dressed in his yellow inmate jumpsuit, Carrillo said, he gave the captain pointers on how to improve his swing and reduce a double-digit handicap.

Word of the free lesson, however, ended up being costly for Donahue, who is under investigation for an inappropriate relationship with an inmate.scotty cameron putter

The dog ate his Masters tickets, really
We’re a little late with this story about the dog who ate his owner’s Masters tickets (hey, we’re cat people), but in case you haven’t heard, Russ Berkman of Seattle had four tickets to Wednesday’s practice rounds at Augusta National, but he left them where his dog Sienna could get to them. We’re sure you see where this story is going: dog eats tickets, man induces dog to vomit up tickets, man goes through dog vomit to find ticket pieces and reassembles them. SFGate reports the happy ending:

“We got about 70 percent of all four tickets put together,” he said. “It took about, I don’t know — about three cocktails deep was how long it took to put this thing all together.”

That’s three cocktails for Berkman, not three cocktails for Sierra.

Perhaps even more amazingly, when he contacted Augusta National Golf Club to explain the situation — My dog ate my Masters tickets! — the Masters folks believed him. They reprinted Berkman’s tickets and have them waiting for him in Georgia.titleist irons

Phil Mickelson, Ben Crenshaw remember Seve
The 2012 Masters is the first one played since two-time Masters champion Seve Ballesteros died last May. Scott Michaux of The Augusta Chronicle talked to current and former players about how much the game misses Ballesteros.

As past Masters Tournament winners gathered for the annual Champions Dinner on Tuesday night, the Spanish golf icon who won two green jackets was dearly missed. It’s the generations of golfers coming up, however, who lost the most with Seve’s passing.r11 driver

“Golf misses him,” said Ben Crenshaw, the two-time winner who serves as host to the exclusive club of past champions. “He leaves such a void there because he did so much for the European Tour. He started so young, and the European Tour grew up with him. He was a giant over there. He had it all.”rocketballz driver

Michaux also talked to Phil Mickelson about Ballesteros.

Mickelson, who said Bal¬le¬steros “was everything I hoped he would be” when he met him in a practice round at Torrey Pines, remembers marveling at the Spaniard’s creativity and touch.

“We were both with Hugo Boss doing photo shoots at Loch Lomond and would do some trick shots out of bunkers,” Mickelson said. “Watching him be able to control the amount of spin or side spin with a 4- or 5-iron out of the bunker, those were the shots that I remember.”r11s driver

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John Daly back on European Tour after elbow injury

By admin on March 22, 2012 in

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John Daly tied for 51st at the Transitions.

AGADIR, Morocco (AP) — John Daly will return to the European Tour for the Hassan II Trophy tournament, confident he’s recovered from an injury to his right elbow.

Daly tore tendons in his elbow hitting a submerged tree root at the ninth hole during the final round of the Avantha Masters last month in India.

“My elbow was very swollen and hurting really bad for about a week after playing in India,” Daly said.

The 1991 PGA and 1995 British Open winner flew home to seek treatment, which included a cortisone injection.

“I went and visited a doctor in Tampa who gave me a cortisone injection the Sunday before the Transitions Championship,” he said.

The 45-year-old Daly will be paired in Morocco with American Rich Beem, winner of the 2002 PGA Championship, and New Zealand’s Michael Campbell, who captured the 2005 U.S. Open.TaylorMade R11s Drivers

England’s David Horsey won his second European Tour title last year, making a hole-in-one and winning with a birdie on the second hole of a playoff

The tournament is being held for a second year on the exclusive Royal Course that was built for the late King of Morocco, Hassan II, and only used by his two sons and guests. The Robert Trent Jones Sr.-designed Palais Royal sits inside the walls of the Royal Palace of Agadir.

“It’s a bit like the Sage Valley course in South Carolina and not far from Augusta with regards to exclusivity,” Daly said. “You could tell it’s a Robert Trent Jones course straight away what with the run offs around the greens.”Ping G20

Daly said he’ll play the Sicilian Open next week and attend the Masters – not competing but selling his clothing line and accessories close to Augusta National.titleist 910D3 Driver

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Loren Roberts wins Toshiba Classic for 13th Champions Tour victory

By admin on March 19, 2012 in

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Loren Roberts made a 5-foot birdie putt on the final hole

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Loren Roberts shot a 69 on Sunday to win the Toshiba Classic by two strokes over Mark Calcavecchia, Tom Kite and Bernhard Langer.

Roberts made a 5-foot birdie putt on the final hole to ensure the victory after bogeys on three of the previous four holes.

“We did make it interesting,” he said. “We got off to the start you dream of doing, but hit a snag on the back.”

Roberts began the day two strokes behind Calcavecchia, but made birdies on three of his first four holes. Even with a bogey on the seventh hole, Roberts was able to maintain a two-stroke lead, until the 16th hole. He missed a 3-foot par putt on 16 after his second shot hit a spectator box.titleist 910D3 Driver

On the 17th hole, Roberts bogeyed again, unable to get up and down after his tee shot came to rest in the right greenside rough. He missed a 6-foot par saving putt.

“I kind of let everybody in the game,” Roberts said. “I got out of rhythm. I didn’t hit bad putts. The only bad putt I hit was on 12.”

Langer, who was in the group in front of Roberts, was two strokes behind but made a double-bogey on the 17th hole when his putt from the fringe on the par 3, rolled into the right greenside bunker.Ping G20

“I didn’t think I hit that bad a putt,” Langer said. “Actually when I hit the putt I thought it was pretty good. It was accelerating instead of slowing down. Once it got 3 yards past the hole there was no stopping it. The pin is pretty brutal.”TaylorMade R11s Drivers

The Champions Tour victory was Roberts’ 13th and he earned $262,500. His last victory was in 2010, a 34-tournament span.

“I was getting a little worried about it,” Roberts said of not winning. “This was huge for me.”

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Tiger Woods drives off to an uncertain future after Doral

By admin on March 13, 2012 in

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Tiger Woods had to withdraw from the 2012 WGC-Cadillac Championship after teeing off on the 12th hole.

DORAL, Fla. (AP) — The speculation at the start of the year was when Tiger Woods would win.

Now it’s when he can play again.

The sequence Sunday at Doral was troubling. Woods hobbled. He changed his shoes at the turn. He began lifting his left leg to try to flex his ankle. He limped. And after one last powerful swing that produced a 321-yard drive on the 12th hole, he winced and walked over to Webb Simpson to tell him he was done for the day.titleist 910d2

“He just shook my hand and said, `I’ve got to go in.’ You could tell he was hurting,” Simpson said.

To what degree, only Woods knows. And when he does, it becomes a matter of how much information he will share.

He said his left Achilles tendon – the same one that caused him to miss two majors last year – felt tight as he warmed up on the practice range before the final round of the Cadillac Championship, and it got worse from there.titleist 910D3

Woods plans to get it evaluated this week.

The Masters starts in 24 days.

This is the one major he has never missed. Augusta National is where so many expected him to resume pursuit of the 18 majors won by Jack Nicklaus, the only record that really ever mattered to Woods, who has been stuck on 14 since the 2008 U.S. Open.Ping G20

Beyond that benchmark, however, comes another question that no longer seems as ludicrous as the injuries keep piling up.

Will Woods ever win again?

Until Sunday, he was making big strides in that direction. Woods ended last year with an unofficial win in his Chevron World Challenge against an 18-man field, with birdies on the last two holes. He started this year tied for the 54-hole lead in Abu Dhabi and finished two shots behind Robert Rock. Only a week ago, he shot his lowest final round ever – a 62 that was punctuated with a 5-iron over the water to 8 feet for an eagle that put a brief scare into Rory McIlroy.Taylormade r11 Driver

But he’s not winning.

Worse yet, he’s not giving himself as many chances as he once did.

Woods has played only 32 tournaments since returning, at the 2010 Masters, from the scandal in his personal life. He has missed the cut twice. He has withdrawn three times. And he has 21 finishes out of the top 10 – that’s as many times out of the top 10 from the 2004 U.S. Open to his last official win at the 2009 Australian Masters.TaylorMade R11S Driver

Depending on the severity of the injury, this could be the third straight year Woods had a season interrupted by injury. His last full season was in 2009, and that one didn’t get started until the Match Play Championship when he returned from reconstructive knee surgery.TaylorMade Drivers

He’s not the same player he was. That much is clear.

He might not ever be.

Woods turned 36 at the end of last year, but he’s an old 36.

Woods already has had four surgeries on his left knee dating to when he was at Stanford. He first mentioned his left Achilles after the Masters last year, saying he injured it in the third round at Augusta while trying to play a shot from an awkward stance under Eisenhower’s Tree on the 17th hole.TaylorMade RocketBallz Driver

He tried to return too early at The Players Championship and quit after nine holes and 42 shots, then sat out for three months until he was convinced his left leg was strong as ever. That enabled him to work on his new swing, to resume physical training, to get stronger.

There was no indication of an Achilles problem until early in the final round. And that can only lead to speculation that perhaps his Achilles really is his Achilles, more than the knee.

Nicklaus only won four majors after he turned 36, and Nicklaus was never seriously injured. He didn’t have to withdraw from a major until seven years later, when he was 43, because of a bad back.

“For him to go back and win again, he’ll have to figure out that he’s a different person today than he was five years ago,” Nicklaus said last week at the Honda Classic. “I was a different person when I was 25 years old than when I was 35 years old. I had to learn how to play. I didn’t have the strength. I couldn’t overpower the golf course.

“I’ve got great respect for Tiger’s golf game, and I think he’ll be back.”

Woods at least learned one lesson. After he injured his Achilles at the Masters last year, he returned a month later at The Players Championship even though some in his camp thought he should have waited another month to be sure he was fine.

He is set to play the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill, which starts March 22, his final tournament before the Masters.

“In the past, I may have tried to continue to play,” Woods said Sunday. “But this time, I decided to do what I thought was necessary.”

Still, each injury makes him look more mortal.

And even if Woods is a “normal” 36, the competition is getting younger. Maybe it was just the magic of television, but when NBC Sports turned its camera from Woods driving away from Doral, it returned to McIlroy holing a bunker shot for eagle on the 12th hole as Boy Wonder came from eight shots down and nearly won.

In 12 tournaments on the PGA Tour this year, nine of the winners have been younger than Woods.

McIlroy was playing in the group behind Woods when he saw him get in a cart with his caddie, Joe LaCava. He thought Woods might have been going to use the restroom, discovering moments later what had happened.

“It’s a shame, because he looked like he was coming out this year, swinging it really well, playing good, getting himself into contention,” McIlroy said. “It’s probably just precautionary, but I really hope he’s ready for the Masters. Tiger Woods has been the face of golf for the last 15 years. Feeling like he’s coming back to his best, or something near his best, it’s great for the game.

“He can spark an interest in the game that no one else can.”

Woods can only raise interest if he’s playing, though. And the interest spikes when he’s winning.

Right now, he’s not doing either.

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Bubba Watson shoots 62 and takes the lead at Doral

By admin on March 10, 2012 in

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Bubba Watson made an eagle, nine birdies and a bogey.

DORAL, Fla. (AP) — Bubba Watson and Justin Rose put on an amazing show of birdies in blustery conditions at Doral, making 17 between them while playing in the same group Friday at the Cadillac Championship.

Their playful fuel was decided by Watson’s eagle, giving him a 10-under 62 and a one-shot lead.

Watson belted a 3-iron that barely got over a palm tree, carried over the water into the wind and settled 6 feet away on the par-5 eighth for an eagle putt that gave him a one-shot lead over Rose.

Mark Wilson, the third in that group, shot a respectable 70 and was just along for the ride.

“They did everything right,” Wilson said. “It was some of the best golf I’ve seen collectively between them.”

Watson was at 12-under 132 and will get to play again in the final group Saturday with Rose, who had to settle for a 64.

“Maybe they’ve been cutting the hole a little bigger,” Rose said.

Despite the steady wind, there were plenty of low scores on the Blue Monster. The average score was 69.9, close to three strokes easier than the opening round. There were 12 scores in the 60s on Thursday, and 31 of them Friday.

Tiger Woods played bogey-free for a 67 and actually lost ground. He moved up the leaderboard, but is seven shots behind going into the weekend, with 14 players ahead of him.

“This is the highest score I could have shot today, for sure,” Woods said.

Rory McIlroy, in his first tournament as the new world No. 1, managed a 69 and fell 10 shots off the lead.

Perhaps most peculiar about Watson being atop the leaderboard at Doral is that he really doesn’t like the course. Without many trees except for the waving palms, he can’t figure out where he’s supposed to be hitting the ball. But he kept hitting it long, had short irons into the greens and made his share of putts. That works just about anywhere.

As always, there were a few shots that only Watson can see.

He was so far left of the sixth fairway, that a tree was blocking his path to the green. Watson had only 135 yards to the hole, but instead of playing a sand wedge, he hit 9-iron and aimed it some 20 yards right of the green, slicing it back into the left-to-right wind beyond the hole until the wind pushed it back on the descent. It landed 6 feet from the cup.

His caddie, Ted Scott, keeps notes in the yardage book of how Watson plays each hole in every round. Next to the 9-iron from 135 yards, he put in parentheses, “Wow.”

There was another “wow” inscription two holes later.

Watson was in the fairway on the par-5 eighth, but the best path to the green was around a palm tree near the ropes where the photographers were camped out.

“I took it right up the edge of that tree. There’s a little tree there and it actually nicked that limb a little bit,” Watson said. “I hit it as hard as I could, just a low, what everybody calls a stinger. Hit as hard as I could low and knew it wasn’t going to slice. So all I was protecting was the draw and it went dead straight and came off perfect. And the rest is history.”

He went from one shot behind to one shot ahead of Rose, who had nothing to apologize about his 64. Rose, who contended last week in the wind at the Honda Classic, ran off four birdies in a five-hole stretch around the turn, the exception coming on the 18th.

Rose was among those caught up in the Bubba show.

“I don’t let it influence my game plan, the way I play the golf course, but definitely you keep one eye on him just out of interest,” Rose said. “He’s a fun guy to watch play golf. When he hits tee shots, there’s a bit of disbelief and stuff like that, or he curves one, starts one in the trees and there’s `Ooohing’ and `Aahhhing’ when it goes back into the fairways.titleist 910d2

“No one knows what to expect and I think it’s fascinating to watch.”

Even with the tees moved slightly forward and slightly less wind, the par-4 18th still played difficult. There were five birdies, compared with only two birdies in the opening round.titleist 910D3

Adam Scott had one of them, holing a 20-foot putt for a birdie-birdie finish that allowed him to recover from a double bogey on the eighth hole. He shot a 68 and was at 10-under 134, two shots out of the lead.Ping G20

“Right where I want to be,” Scott said. “The guys shot some unbelievably good scores out there today, so I knew on that back nine as I was kind of falling a long way behind, I needed to step it up, and I was happy the putter really came through for me. Tomorrow, I’m just going to have to be really sharp, because there’s no doubt again there are going to be low scores out there.”Taylormade r11 Driver

Peter Hanson, who reached the quarterfinals of the Match Play Championship, took another step toward trying to secure a PGA Tour card. He had a 65 and was alone in fourth in this World Golf Championship.TaylorMade R11S Driver

Thomas Bjorn has yet to make a bogey in 36 holes and had another 68. He was four shots behind, tied with PGA champion Keegan Bradley, who had a 67. The group at 7-under 137 included Masters champion Charl Schwartzel and former PGA champion Martin Kaymer.TaylorMade Drivers

“You’ll take that any week,” Bjorn said. “I’m not making a big number of birdies, obviously, but when you can keep big mistakes off your scorecard, that’s the key to this golf course. It’s very easy to make some big mistakes and it’s difficult to get it back.”TaylorMade RocketBallz Driver

Phil Mickelson was 1 under after a 71.

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Edward Loar wins Nationwide Tour’s Panama Championship

By admin on March 8, 2012 in

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Edward Loar won the Panama Championship on Sunday for first Nationwide Tour title, holing a 6-foot par putt on the final hole for a 4-over 74 and a one-stroke victory over four players.

The 34-year-old left-hander, four strokes ahead entering the final round in 92-degree heat, survived a triple-bogey 7 on the seventh hole and had only two birdies in the final round – the last on the par-4 16th.

“Yeah, I was nervous,” Loar said. “It was the first time in a while that I’d been in the lead, especially on a stage like this. I think anybody that said they weren’t is crazy. On a course like this anything can happen as it’s shown all week. Unfortunately, it came up and bit me a couple of times.”Babolat Tennis Racquets

The 6-foot-4 former Oklahoma State player finished at 4-under 276 and earned $99,000 for his first tour victory since winning the Asian Tour’s 2003 Thailand Open and 2004 Korean Open. A rookie on the PGA Tour this year, he will play in the Puerto Rico Open next week.

“I really haven’t played that good out here,” Loar said. “Hopefully, this will give me some gratification that I actually belong out here.”Wilson Tennis Racquets

Cameron Percy, Ryan Armour, Luke List and Brian Smock tied for second. Percy finished with a 67, Armour and List shot 68, and Smock had a 69.

Loar three-putted the par-3 sixth hole for a bogey, then pushed his tee shot into the water on the seventh and three-putted for the triple bogey.

“The triple was just bad shots followed by bad shots,” Loar said. “I was thinking I was glad I had a four-shot lead to start with. I obviously let a lot of people back in the tournament.”Babolat Pure Drive Racquets

Needing a par on the 465-yard 18th to avoid a playoff, Loar clipped a tree with his drive, leaving him 240 yards to the pin.

“I just tried to put myself in a place where I could get it up and down,” he said. “I didn’t think I had a chance for the green. I just hit a really good chip shot.”Babolat Aero Racquets

He won with the 6-foot putt.

“I just tried to stick to my routine and I hit it right in the middle,” he said. “I really struggled. I had pretty good control and then a couple of slip ups, followed by another slip-up and all of a sudden it was tight and I really had to fight and dig deep. I made some unbelievable up and downs coming in to win this tournament.”Wilson BLX Tennis Racquets

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Cleveland 588 CB Forged Irons

By admin on March 6, 2012 in

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Cleveland 588 CB Forged

WE TESTED: 3-PW with True Temper Dynamic Gold steel shaft
KEY TECHNOLOGIES: Forged 1025 carbon steel heads designed with a Tour-inspired shape and V-sole, thin topline and minimal offset for enhanced shotmaking and versatility. The milled “Tour Zip” grooves push the limits of USGA regulations to provide optimal spin, while four microgrooves between each scoring line deliver maximum allowable surface roughness.

OUR TESTERS SAY: One of the top-rated irons. Classy look, lots of playability and moderate forgiveness make these a fine choice.
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PROS
PLAYABILITY: Very responsive to controlling shape and trajectory; short irons perform very well around the greens, and half- and three-quarter shots are easy to execute; playable in all turf conditions.
ACCURACY/FORGIVENESS: Scalpel-like precision on solid strikes; for a workable club, mis-hits don’t seem to produce excessive sidespin.
DISTANCE CONTROL: Just what testers expect with no surprises—overall yardages are consistent but average; excels at less than full-length shots.
FEEL: Plenty of feedback transmitted to the hands; well-balanced throughout the swing with a click at impact.
LOOK: Attractive package with chrome finish, clean lines and square setup.

CONS
They can feel a bit harsh on mis-hits; some testers see noticeable distance loss on shots away from the sweet spot.

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