After a year’s absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the oldest of the European continent’s national championships will be played from May 6-9 at Le Golf National outside Paris.
Although he admitted to struggling with the rhythm of his swing over the course of the final round, the now five-time European Tour champion gave what was generally a near-textbook example of how to play with a lead.
One week after a second-place finish at the Irish Open, the man who wears two gloves to hit every full shot is now a two-time winner on the European Tour.
A solo second-place finish at the tournament was worth $US828,000, but because you had to add the prizemoney for the third, fourth, fifth and sixth places, then divide the aggregate among the five players, the amount was diluted.
Bernd Wiesberger’s comeback from wrist surgery had already qualified as a success, but in the wake of his victory in the Italian Open overnight he could add remarkable to its description.
This is getting to be a habit – and not in a good way. For the third time in Rory McIlroy’s past four starts, the Irishman’s golf will not be on public display on a tournament weekend.
There was something eerily familiar about the opening rounds Rickie Fowler and Rory McIlroy played on the first day of the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open at a breezy Dundonald Links.