Top-ranked Lorena Ochoa increased her lead to seven strokes Friday in the HSBC Women’s Champions, shooting a 7-under 65 at Tanah Merah in her second tournament round of the year. “It was great from my driver to the putting. I kept hitting my second shots really close and gave myself a lot of birdie chances, so I was very consistent,” Ochoa said.
India’s Shiv Kapur fired a 7-under 65 Friday to take a share of the lead with Unho Park of Australia after two rounds of the Johnnie Walker Classic. Kapur had an eagle and five birdies to join Park at 10-under 134. Park shot a 66 Friday at the DLF Golf and Country Club that featured eight birdies and two bogies.
Luke Donald’s opening round in The Honda Classic was far from perfect. He missed five greens and seven fairways, including five straight on the back nine. And conditions at windy, cool PGA National were hardly optimal for scoring. Yet somehow, Donald found a way to post the Honda’s best score in three years.
Top-ranked Lorena Ochoa got off to a fast start in her first round of the season, shooting a bogey-free 6-under 66 on Thursday at Tanah Merah to take a one-stroke lead in the HSBC Women’s Champions. “It was one of those days that I was getting the ball and making good contact especially, had a lot of birdie chances,” said Ochoa, an eight-time winner last season.
Luke Donald’s opening round in The Honda Classic was far from perfect. He missed five greens and seven fairways, including five straight on the back nine. And conditions at windy, cool PGA National were hardly optimal for scoring. Yet somehow, Donald found a way to post the Honda’s best score in three years.
Indian caddie-turned-pro Shamim Khan and Daniel Vancsik each shot 5-under-67 Thursday to share the first-round lead at the Johnnie Walker Classic. Adam Scot of Australia was one stroke back. Khan had a bogey-free round with five birdies. Vancsik had five birdies and an eagle — on the par-5 ninth — to make up for his two bogeys at the DLF Golf and Country Club.
Robert Allenby and Boo Weekley couldn’t wait to get back to PGA National, which is somewhat surprising. A year ago, each was poised to win the Honda Classic. That is, until they blew it down the stretch on Sunday. Allenby came unglued with bogeys the 15th and 16th holes in the final round, part of the three-hole setup known as the Bear Trap, a nod to course redesigner Jack Nicklaus — and wound up…
Top-ranked Lorena Ochoa began her season by shooting six birdies to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the inaugural $2 million HSBC Women’s Champions tournament on Thursday. Ochoa had no bogeys to finish 6-under 66 at Asia’s richest women’s golf event at Tanah Merah Country Club. “It was one of those days that I was getting the ball and making good contact especially, had a lot of…
Tiger Woods won the FedEx Cup so handily last year that he skipped the first playoff event and could have stayed home during the Tour Championship to collect the $10 million prize. He wound up 12,578 points ahead of Steve Stricker. Under the new points structure announced Tuesday, he would have won by only 8,308 points.
Greg Norman put aside his differences with the PGA Tour and agreed to be captain of the International team at the Presidents Cup, joining Fred Couples of the United States as the first captains who have competed in the matches. It will be held in October 2009 at Harding Park, a public course in San Francisco.