WEDNESDAY, March 21st 2012
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Luke Donald returns to the top spot Luke Donald returned to the Nº1 spot with a stunning sudden-death victory at the Transitions Championship. And yet another victory on the US PGA Tour for a European golfer, which just a couple of years ago were few and far between. Donald played a magnificent seven-iron out of the right rough to six feet for a birdie on the first extra hole after making it into a four-man play-off with Korean SangMoon Bae and American duo Robert Garrigus and Jim Furyk.
Garrigus, who forced his way into extra time with a final round of 64, took full advantage of his power on the 18th hole at the Copperhead by hitting a 313yard drive into the heart of the fairway, leaving only a wedge into the hole.Yet Garrigus missed from eight feet while Donald holed-out for his fifth victory on the PGA Tour – so McIlroy's tenure at No 1 lasted just two weeks.
"Well, I enjoyed it while it lasted," McIlroy tweeted. "Congrats Luke, an impressive performance!"
Donald made it into the play-off with a final round 66, while Bae posted a 68 and overnight leader Furyk shot 70.
Meanwhile, it started out with a day to remember but ended up as a tournament to forget for Padraig Harrington. After the elation of last Thursday's sensational course record 61, Harrington was in the doldrums on the final day, for the third round in succession, the Dubliner failed to break par as he continued his slide down the leader board into 20th place after grinding out a levelpar 71 as the protagonists fired birdies. Ten-under after shooting the best round of his life in the opening round, the 40-
year-old completed his tournament on seven-under, six shy of the play-off. Within 24 hours of Thursday's mesmeric performance on the greens at the Innisbrook Resort, the confidence drained out of Harrington's putter.
Andalucia Open Frenchman Julien Quesne equalled the course record with a superb 64 to win the Andalucia Open by two strokes and secure his maiden European Tour title. The 31-year-old, who began the final day three shots off the lead, birdied the tough 18th in a run of four birdies in five holes to finish 17 under par. Italian teenager Matteo Manassero's second
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Old and Bill Davie. Well done everyone, especially Russell Roper who spent a great deal of time organising a very successful tournament once again. The pairs winners were Barry Pemberton and Richard Burrows (above) who beat Tony Wright and Mike Old in a thrilling final. The Trips winners were Sandie Guthrie, Tony Farmer and Dennis King (above centre) who had a real ding-dong match against Tony Wright, Mike
Report by Frances Farmer A Markers Workshop was organised at Lauro Golf bowls club Wednesday 7th March, and was attended by 10 of the club members. Sue Walker, assisted by Alan Turner and Trevor Burgin,
All the participants took notice of the coaching that was given to them and did well in the questions that were put to them after the course. All this is in preparation for the champion of champions, which is to be held at Lauro Bowls Club in April.
racially-aggravated public order offence. He was arrested after his comments on the social networking site were A student has admitted posting racially offensive comments on Twitter about footballer Fabrice Muamba. Liam Stacey, 21, appeared at Swansea magistrates' court after tweeting about the Bolton Wanderers player who collapsed during a FA Cup tie against Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday. The 23-year-old, who suffered a cardiac arrest, remains in intensive care. Stacey, a Swansea University student from Pontypridd, admitted a
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Manassero birdied three holes in succession from the sixth but needed to collect birdies at the last two holes to match Quesne. However, he bunkered his tee shot at the
par-three 17th and then his approach to the 18th, doing well to escape with pars at both. That left overnight leader Eduardo de la Riva needing to hole his second shot from the fairway at the 18th to tie, but he wasn’t able to do so, and missed out on second place also after taking three putts.
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Baby faced Julien Quesne fires his tee shot at the last hole
successive 68 clinched second. Local favourite and event promoter Miguel Angel Jimenez shot a 71 to tie for seventh, six shots adrift.
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Results for Fri 16th March 2012 (Week 21)
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Oscars Stars 3 - 9 Rays Bobbys Rays Rascals 8 - 4 Cybersnakes Zoco Zulus 2 - 10 Tonys Tornados La Gamberros 3 - 9 Jagerbombs Fools Fillies 6 - 6 newts@ourbar Bunkers Rangers 7 - 5 Santis Arrows Dart Vaders p - p Tonys Terriers Red Devils 8 - 4 Dempseys Dynamos Excellent darts from Gerry Hayward who plays for Rays Bobbys for scoring 180. Gold Cup Womens Doubles Finalists Kara Gunter + Linda Harrison (br) V Andria Cairns + Fiona Cairns (tt) Gold Cup Open Doubles Finalists Wayne Dunn + Kim Gregory (jb) V Keith Thorne + Dan Khrone (tt) Silver Cup Womens Doubles Finalists Linda King + Karen Doyle (br) V June Brace + Nina Hilton (zz) Silver Cup Open Doubles Finalists Richard Walker + Mark Ridgeway (rr) V Tom Walker + Hedley Conway (rb)
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