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Golf with Shanks (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
As of right this moment, Ben Curtis is playing better golf than any of the eight automatic qualifiers for the U.S. Ryder Cup team and it’s not even debatable. Five weeks ago, he posted a 7th place finish in the howling winds at Royal Birkdale in the Open Championship . Three weeks ago, he finished one stroke out of a playoff for the PGA Championship on the incredibly difficult set up...
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Irish Golf Desk (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
... project, Woods confessed that he was thoroughly impressed by Harrington’s major victories at Royal Birkdale and Oakland Hills.Woods said: “He played unbelievably well. To win the last two majors and the way he did it on the back nine on Sunday, to play as well as he did on both occasions and basically win the championship.“It’s not like he backed into the championship and was given...
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Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
... 32-year-old Englishman, runner-up to Ireland's Padraig Harrington in the British Open at Royal Birkdale in July, is outside the automatic top-10 places in the Ryder Cup points standings.Poulter missed the cut in the opening event of the U.S. PGA Tour's FedExCup playoffs last week and needs to compete in the second tournament of the series in Boston this week to have any chance of...
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Irish Golf Desk (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
Padraig Harrington has been labelled golf's first "Ladyboy" champion by an Irish comedian. Irish funnyman Patrick Kielty sent the triple major winner a text message on his successful Open Championship defence at Royal Birkdale last month. Kielty wrote: "Well done Padraig, you're golf's first ladyboy champion - a huge set of balls and a nice pair of Jugs."
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Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
SOUTHPORT and Birkdale have been plunged even deeper into the ECB Premier League’s relegation battle by a decision to dock the Trafalgar Road team 15 points following the abandonment of their match against Hightown on July 26.
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Daily Express (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
Roberts won the People’s Open Golf Championship at Royal Birkdale after watching the world’s top golfers struggle at the Lancashire links course last month.The 11-handicapper from Shropshire fired a four-over-par 76 – including birdies at the fifth and 18th – to finish with 40 Stableford points and come out on top of a field of 70 club golfers.Roberts, 46, said: “I came up to Birkdale...
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Manchester Online (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
... last month's Open Championship qualifier at West Lancs where he narrowly missed out on a place at Royal Birkdale. "I drew a lot of confidence from that," he said after his maiden victory in the James Brearley Lancashire Open eight days ago. Cheetham, hoping to get a foot on the European Tour ladder next month, added a second round 67 to his opening 66, five-under-par all told. As...
