I’m going back to the putting green and I’ll work until it is dark
Posted in General on 28. Aug, 2010
I’m going back to the putting green and I’ll work until it is dark. I’m old enough and ugly enough to know that I can get it round in under par even when I’m putting badly.”McGinley, 10th in the Cup rankings, said: “It might not be my day, I might not get the putts in I might get the bad breaks I might play great You don’t know. This game is so unpredictable.” Indeed.Two Welshmen, Mark Pilkington and Jamie Donaldson, who might have an interest in future Ryder Cups appeared on the leader board at five under par. After a 71 Pilkington is within striking distance of the biggest cheque of his young career. The 23-year-old, who turned professional three years ago, has been nurtured by his father John, who normally caddies for his son but not this week “Jason, a friend from the golf club, is on the bag.
We play a lot of golf together and thought we would give it a try. There’s a nice relaxed atmosphere between us and it’s working all right. Sometimes when things aren’t going well you can start feeling sorry for yourself and if you have someone who is not so sympathetic towards you he’s more likely to give you a kick up the backside. Having a change of caddie is probably a good thing.”Donaldson, who turned professional last November, is in the form of his life.
Last week the 25-year-old, who was born in Pontypridd but who lives in Macclesfield, claimed his first victory on the European Challenge Tour, winning the BMW Russian Open. Donaldson, who also had a 71 yesterday, came home in 32, finishing with three successive birdies over the most punishing terrain. Today, Celtic Manor will be no place for old lags or even old legs.. Everyone else has had their say about the ending of Tiger Woods’ major-winning streak so why not his mother? Kultida Woods says the effort involved in claiming an historic fourth successive major title at the Masters earlier this year was simply overwhelming and that a relative lull was only to be expected. Everyone else has had their say about the ending of Tiger Woods’ major-winning streak so why not his mother? Kultida Woods says the effort involved in claiming an historic fourth successive major title at the Masters earlier this year was simply overwhelming and that a relative lull was only to be expected.
Woods was able to enjoy the unique privilege of having all four of golf’s major championship trophies on his living-room coffee table for less than two months.
Inevitably, he has had to start handing them back but the surprise has been that the world No 1 did not put up more of a fight to hang on to the US Open and the Open Championship pots.This will not stop Woods starting the US PGA Championship, at the Atlanta Athletic Club, as a firm favourite to secure a hat-trick of wins in the event. Results of 12th in Tulsa and 25th at Royal Lytham hardly suggest a crisis, but it is difficult not to ponder the reasons for Woods failing to get into contention when not so long ago he appeared able to conquer through the sheer force of his determination.Woods played supreme golf, perhaps what will turn out to be his best ever, at the US Open at Pebble Beach last summer and The Open at St Andrews. In the US PGA at Valhalla and, even more so, at the Masters this April, it was his commitment to getting the job done that saw off his opponents. Bending the golfing gods to his will is not something Woods could sustain indefinitely Tiger, as well as his mother, appreciates the point “Golf is a fickle game,” Woods said at Lytham.