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Showing posts with label East Lake Golf Club. Show all posts
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Friday, 11 December 2015
Thursday, 19 November 2015
Q School Stressful - Paul Dunne
Paul Dunne has confessed that he found the final round of Qualifying School more stressful than his Open adventure earlier this year.
The Wicklow man was famously tied for the Open lead going into the final round before falling down the order at St Andrews in July.
Ahead of the last round of European Tour qualifying in Girona today, Dunne sat in 12th knowing that the top 25 plus ties would collect a card for next season.
After finishing tied for 13th spot, the 22-year-old told RTÉ 2fm’s Game on: “It’s different. You’ve to finish in the top 25 this week, you’re just trying to do as well as you can.
“But then going into today was a bit weird because I was in 12th.
“You don’t know whether to try to push on and go forward or play more conservative and just to try stay in the top 25 so it’s a different mindset.
“It was a difficult one for me to really know how to think about how I want to play.
“Mentally, it was more difficult to know what to take on and what not to. It played a lot of mind games with me.
“This one was probably more stressful and the other one [The Open] was more exciting.”
“This one was probably more stressful and the other one was more exciting"
Qualifying School consisted of 14 rounds, including six this week and the Greystones man admitted the schedule was taking its toll.
“[I’m] wrecked, to the honest,” he said before revealing he plans to play in South Africa and Australia in the next fortnight.
“The first five rounds weren’t too bad but today was quite stressful, start to finish, just trying to get through the line.
“It’s great, it’s been a long few months trying to get through so I’m glad it’s finally over.
“If you looked at it simply, all I had to do was finish in the top 20 three in tournaments in a row.
"When you break it down and put it in a simpler term it seems a lot more achievable.
“I knew if I played well for three weeks I’d get through without much hassle but the last few stages were a bit more stressful than I would have liked.
“I played well around the tougher courses, the tougher courses suited me more. I was delighted to finally get over the line.”
Monday, 19 October 2015
Good Day for No 1 Jason
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Jason Day will return to world No1 on Monday from the comfort of his couch in Ohio as he awaits the birth of his second child.
Day, who first went to No1 after winning the BMW Championship last month, but lost the mantle a week later after Jordan Spieth won the Tour Championship, will benefit from his phenomenal finish to the year.
While neither Day nor Spieth have played in a world ranking points-earning event since the Tour Championship, the Queenslander’s late year charge, where he won the Canadian Open, his first major at the PGA Championship and two US PGA tour playoff events in six starts sees his average usurp the Texan.
“It was a tough week for me but I ground it out around the house,” Day joked. “But in all seriousness while it is a little strange to get it this way it is just proof that the hard work we put in as a team this year paid off and at the end of the day every week at the top counts and is exciting.
“I know things will likely change again as I continue my off-season so I know I need to get back at it and work even harder than last year to make it easier to be at No1 into the future.”
Day is the third Australian, and the youngest, to be world No1 along with Greg Norman (331 total weeks) and Adam Scott (11 weeks).
With Day out of action until Tiger Woods’ Hero World Challenge in early December, Spieth will have chances to get the spot back, as will No3 Rory McIlroy, over the next six weeks.
McIlroy is currently playing the season opener in California but cannot earn enough points to move higher than his current ranking, even with a victory.
Sunday, 27 September 2015
Spieth Eases Ahead of Stenson
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Jordan Spieth birdied the final hole to take a one-shot lead into the final round of the PGA Tour's season-ending Tour Championship.
The 22-year-old, one of five players who will automatically claim the FedExCup title this week, carded a birdie-two at the par-three last to close a two-under 68 and move one-shot clear of overnight leader Henrik Stenson in Atlanta.
After bouncing back from a dropped shot at the first with an eight-foot gain at the third, Stenson temporarily saw his lead cut to one when he followed a blemish at the tenth with a three-putt bogey at the 11th.
Paul Casey had closed the gap with back-to-back birdies at the sixth and seventh but failed to pick up another stroke all afternoon, while Rory McIlroy's four gains in a seven hole stretch around the turn briefly moved him within one of the Swede.
Stenson restored his two-shot cushion by rolling in a 22-footer at the 14th, only to see Spieth half the gap by sliding in an eight-foot gain at the next.
A double-bogey at the last from McIlroy saw him back four adrift, as a missed long-range par-save from Stenson at the penultimate hole saw Spieth move in to a tie for the lead heading to the last.
As the Swede two-putted from 30 feet for par to close a two-over 72, Spieth rolled in 20-foot gain to take the outright lead at eight under.
Four birdies on the back nine helped Rickie Fowler to a round-of-the-day 67 in tricky conditions to claim a tie for third alongside Casey, with Zach Johnson joining McIlroy a further stroke back.
World No 1 Jason Day posted consecutive gains on the back nine, but will still head in to the final round in the group eight shots off the pace after a level-par 70 at East Lake.
Saturday, 26 September 2015
Things Go Better for Stenson
Henrik Stenson will take a convincing lead in to the weekend at the Tour Championship, where Jordan Spieth surged up the leaderboard.
Stenson's previous appearance at East Lake saw him lead from start to finish to win the FedExCup title and US $10m bonus to go with the tournament first prize of US $1.4m.
And the Swede remains on course to repeat the feat after a two-under 68 gave him a three-shot lead over nearest challenger Spieth, who pulled himself back into contention with a round-of-the-day 66.
Any time you can maintain or extend your lead is always going to be a good day," Stenson said. "I did not feel like I played my best golf today but made some nice putts for birdie and kept it together pretty nicely."
Resuming two shots clear of Paul Casey after an opening round of 63, Stenson was able to double his advantage by the turn in difficult scoring conditions at a rain-soaked Atlanta.
Casey briefly moved within a stroke of the lead with a seven-foot gain at the first, only for the Swede to birdie two of his opening four holes.
After Stenson and Casey bogeyed the fifth, the Englishman lost further ground by double-bogeying the next after hooking his tee shot in to a water hazard.
That temporarily left Zach Johnson in second spot after the Open champion posted back-to-back gains at the seventh and eighth, only to run up a double-bogey seven and bogey the following two holes.
Gains at the ninth and 12th lifted Casey into joint-second alongside Spieth, who completed his bogey-free round with a 20-footer at the last.
A birdie on the 12th kept Stenson comfortably in front, although the Swede missed the chance to restore his four-shot cushion with a two-putt par from nine feet at the last.
Casey lies four shots off the pace after a blemish at the last, with Johnson a further stroke adrift despite closing his round with back-to-back gains.
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