Despite Tiger Woods promising to keep a lid on his emotions, he failed to honour this commitment during his third round performance at the Masters.
Woods is still in contention in Augusta but the pressure is starting to take its toll. At the sixth, when he was three shots behind Westwood, he fluffed his tee shot, which lead him to cry out “Tiger Woods, you suck god damnit!”
Ian Poulter is refusing to allow himself look too far ahead but will be in a final all-English pair for his third round at the Masters.
The English golfer currently shares a tie of the lead at Augusta with compatriot Lee Westwood after shooting a 68 on day two to go to eight-under-par, which could have been even better had he not bogeyed the final hole.
Lee Westwood stated he was very happy with his performance as he shot his best ever round at the Masters to sit one shot off the leader Fred Couples.
The Worksop golfer hit a five-under-par 67 on day one at Augusta, which included four birdies in the last seven holes and seven in total.
Rory McIlroy is confident he can become the youngest-ever Masters champion with a top display at Augusta this week.
The 21-year-old Irishman is making his second trip to Augusta and is buoyed by the fact he finished 20th on his debut, despite some far from encouraging recent form.
After starting the season strongly, he has missed one cut and finished way off the pace in his last three tournaments and as a result has drifted to outside the world top ten.
Ernie Els will head to the Masters this week in search of the biggest prize to elude him so far in his career, the Green Jacket.
Els is currently experiencing his best form for a number of years and has won the two biggest tournaments so far this season at Doral and Bay Hill.
However Els could not banish thoughts of the Masters, even when on the final hole at Bay Hill.
“It’s always in my head this time of the year. You try and downplay it, but you do think about it,” Els said.
Tiger Woods has confirmed he will return to action at The Masters next month, ending his self-imposed four-month exile from golf.
There had been a number of rumours that Woods would return to competitive competition at next week’s Tavistock Cup, or the Arnold Palmer invitational a couple of days later.
However, the 34-year-old has opted to return at the first major of the year at Augusta looking for his fifth win at the course having last put on the famous Green Jacket in 2005.
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Lucinda Russell’s high-class chaser Silver By Nature has been ruled out of the current campaign with a leg injury. The nine-year-old won the Grand National Trial at Haydock in February for the second successive year and was sent off as one of the favourites for the big race itself. He could only finish 12th on [...]
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The racing Levy for the next financial year is expected to yield £72.4million, with fixtures down by 30 to 1,450 for 2012. A deal was finally agreed just before the midnight deadline to prevent the 51st levy scheme being handed over to government secretary of state Jeremy Hunt to determine. The three largest bookmakers – [...]
Lucinda Russell’s high-class chaser Silver By Nature has been ruled out of the current campaign with a leg injury. The nine-year-old won the Grand National Trial at Haydock in February for the second successive year and was sent off as one of the favourites for the big race itself. He could only finish 12th on [...]
Connections of Diamond Harry are optimistic the 2010 Hennessy Gold Cup winner will make his seasonal debut this month after being forced to miss his intended engagement at Wetherby on Saturday. The eight-year-old has not run since his Newbury triumph almost 12 months ago and was forced out of the Charlie Hall Chase after being [...]
