Alejandro Tosti staged a conspicuous protest against playing partner Min Woo Lee’s pace during the final round of the Texas Children’s Houston Open, deliberately slow-playing Lee at Memorial Park’s 12th hole.
DP World Tour winner Ryan Fox has praised superstar Rory McIlroy for travelling Down Under on a mates trip to play Tara Iti and Te Arai Links, saying the Northern Irishman’s journey puts New Zealand golf “on the map.”
Ryan Fox from New Zealand, Gavin Green from Malaysia, C.T. Pan from Chinese Taipei and Fabrizio Zanotti from Paraguay are all making their third straight appearance in the Olympics, the only male golfers to appear in all three Games since golf was reinstated in 2016.
At four-over par and in a tie for 25th, Lee is the best of the three Aussies who made the cut, his third round of two-over 72 comprised of five bogeys and three birdies.
Ryan Fox became the latest golfer to ace the famed 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass overnight. In the process, though, he did something no one has ever done in the 50-year history of the Players Championship.
At the end of a week in which just about every conversation and scrap of speculation revolved around the upcoming Ryder Cup, the winner of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth turned out to be someone who will never play for either side in the biennial trans-Atlantic tussle.
Links golf is a multi-faceted affair, one that asks an often-dizzying array of questions all the way from driver to putter. That is why so many believe golf in the land where the game began is the ultimate test, both mentally and physically.
Ryan Fox stepped up round one as the obligatory mystery man, at least to US reporters unaware of his efforts on the DP World Tour, that tends to pop up on a first-round leaderboard of a major championship—though he shouldn’t be.
Min Woo Lee’s Masters hopes have been given an early boost thanks to a stunning fightback on day one of the WGC–Dell Technologies Match Play at Austin Country Club in Texas.
As the DP World Tour’s Asian Swing kicks off in Singapore this week before journeying to Thailand and India, it will serve as a massive boon to the region’s aspiring golfers with dreams of chasing history and legacy.
Australian Golf Digest
