Cameron Percy has surged to a one-shot lead at the ISPS Handa Senior Open with a seven-under 63 at Gleneagles, with fellow Australians Michael Wright, Richard Green, Steve Allan, Greg Chalmers and Mark Hensby all inside the top of the field.
Zach Johnson battles a misfiring driver to win the Kaulig Companies Championship by six shots, sealing the deal with an improbable birdie on the 11th. It marks the final professional event at Firestone after 72 years.
After 72 years, Firestone Country Club hosts its final PGA Tour Champions event this week. The Ohio institution counts Nicklaus, Palmer, Woods and Adam Scott among its champions.
Major championship season continues this week with the US Senior Open marking three consecutive weeks of majors across both the men’s and women’s games.
The game’s most global golfer finally has a place to call home after Scott Hend claimed a dominant five-stroke win in the PGA TOUR Champions annual visit to Morocco.
It’s the second time in two years that the same player won both the Senior PGA and the Regions Tradition, after Angel Cabrera who won both last year in back-to-back weeks.
In a move that would make even the most militant pace-of-play hardliners tip their cap, the kid took one look at the line and buried it before Daly was even clear of his backswing.
The dreams of ‘10,000-plus’ aspiring PGA Tour Champions players were shattered this week with the circuit’s Player Advisory Council (PAC) voting to eliminate its annual qualifying tournament.
John Harris, the decorated amateur who was a member of four US Walker Cup teams and the last mid-amateur to win the US Amateur, died on Wednesday in the US after battling Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. He was 73.
Ernie Els hopes he’ll have the opportunity to compete against Tiger Woods again next year on the PGA Tour Champions. He thinks the senior circuit would be a benefit to the 15-time major champion as well.
Inspired by the passion and tradition of the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup, the three-team competition pits senior tour golfers representing the US, Europe and the rest of the world.
Australian Golf Digest
