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Sunday 8 November 2009
A round of 67 saw Phil Mickelson overturn a two-shot deficit against Tiger Woods to take a two-shot lead into today’s final round of the HSBC Champions event in Shanghai.
At the other end of the golfing scale from the Trump billions and Donald’s grand vision of building’s the world’s finest course on the north-east coast of Scotland is a nine-hole community facility on the island of Bute that is trying to be all it can be and doing very well, thank you.
If there were an award for perseverance, a strong candidate would have to be Andrew McArthur, who has earned his European Tour card at his fourth attempt after three near misses at graduating through the University of Hard Knocks that is the Challenge Tour.
E ngland’s Ross Fisher, his sights still set on becoming the European Tour’s No 1 this year, and American Anthony Kim will contest today’s final of the Volvo World Match Play Championship in Spain.
Peter Whiteford returned to the European Tour in style last night with a play-off victory in the Apulia San Domenico Grand Final on Italy’s Adriatic coast.
Had it not been for his untimely death in a bizarre air incident 10 years ago, it could have been Payne Stewart facing up to Colin Montgomerie as the US Ryder Cup captain for next year’s match at Celtic Manor in Wales, just as they did as players in what turned out to be one of the American’s last outings.
Martin Laird moved closer to the world’s top 100 yesterday, exactly a year after the last Scottish player dropped out of that hallowed zone.
For the first time since its inauguration in 1964, the World Matchplay Championship moves from Wentworth to the Finca Cortesin course near Marbella, Spain, this week starting on Thursday, and under the sponsorship of Volvo it also has a new round-robin format.
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