The New Zealand number one David Smail has gone to court to launch a case against his ex-girlfriend for threatening his family.
The 40-year-old is a renowned player from New Zealand and he has earned more than $NZ10 million during his 13 years on the Japanese tour. However, he might lose more if his wife files a divorce after listening to the Television and print media news that her husband was having an affair with a Japanese girl. Full story here
New Zealand’s top golfer David Smail says a Japanese woman threatened his family after he ended their affair.
The Smails have chosen to speak to the Waikato Times to tell their side of a story about the woman who has threatened to ruin their marriage and Smail’s life. Full story here
IF YOU keep on knocking on the door, somewhere and sometime they’ve got to let you in. In the case of Matt Kuchar, the answer to his constant calling came in the Barclays Championship at Paramus in New Jersey on Sunday where – after a season of close calls – the amiable American finally found a way to inveigle a victory and did so with a shot which was worth the long wait. Full story here
The Barclays Championship signals the beginning of the four-event FedEx Cup playoffs on the PGA Tour, and by topping the current rankings, Ernie Els is in good stead to claim the coveted title as well as the $10 million bonus.
The FedEx Cup has certainly revived the ending to the PGA Tour season and, along with the European Tour’s Race To Dubai, has provided a way of telling who the unofficial number one golfer really is.
Take last year for example. Tiger Woods won the FedEx Cup while Phil Mickelson secured second place after winning the Tour Championship Full story here
Furyk overslept Wednesday when his cell phone lost power overnight and the alarm didn’t go off, causing him to be late for his pro-am tee time in The Barclays. That left PGA Tour officials no choice but to make him ineligible for the first of four FedEx Cup playoff events.
A two-time winner on tour this year, Furyk is No. 3 in the standings as the race for the $10 million prize gets under way at Ridgewood Country Club without him.
It is unlikely he will fall too far down the standings, although he eliminated any chance of improving. Full story here
New Zealand professional golfer Cathryn Bristow has no chance of gaining an automatic LPGA card for next season, but was boosted by making her first cut on the elite tour is again eyeing its qualifying tournament.
The US-based LPGA rookie made the cut at the Safeway Classic in Oregon last weekend, after a brief round one stint as the clubhouse leader. She is the third New Zealand woman to compete in LPGA events, following in the footsteps of Marilyn Smith and Marnie McGuire, Full story here
Struggling New Zealand golfer Michael Campbell is relieved surgery wasn’t needed on his niggling shoulder injury as he prepares to return to competition this week.
Campbell took a month-long break from competition and took the chance to have the shoulder scanned while home in Sydney.
Upon arrival in Scotland for this week’s Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles, Campbell said the problem was diagnosed as a “slap tear”. Full story here
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Martin Kaymer was barely 4 months old when Bernhard Langer won the first of his two Masters, and yet the age difference is hardly a barrier.
When you are from a country that produces a dearth of golfers, let alone world-class players, you are going to share a bond.
And it can’t get much stronger than it did on Sunday at Whistling Straits, where Kaymer, 25, became just the second German to win a major championship.
Langer, as you would expect, was riveted to his television at home in Florida.
“It would be huge,” Langer said by telephone as he watched Kaymer play the back nine. “It’s very important for Germany. He’s got a great head on his shoulders. He’s still very young, but he is much more mature than his age. He’s got good looks, a great temperament and it would be wonderful for not only if he were to win this major but also to get in the Ryder Cup.” Full Story here (ESPN)
Dustin Johnson was greeted with a locker-room note explaining the rules about Whistling Straits’ plentiful bunkers when he arrived at the course for the PGA Championship early last week.
At the most critical time, his reading retention failed him.
Johnson missed out on a playoff to determine the winner of the last major tournament of the golf season after being assessed a two-stroke penalty for grounding his club in a bunker before his second shot at the 18th hole yesterday.
“Maybe I should have looked to the rule sheet a little harder,” Johnson said in a televised interview with CBS after he completed play. “It never once crossed my mind that I was in a sand trap.” Full Story at Bloomberg
New Zealand Golf has named a strong men’s team and their youngest women’s team for October’s biennial world teams championships in Argentina.
The women will contest the Espirito Santo Trophy in Buenos Aires from October 20-23 and the men play for the Eisenhower Trophy from October 28-31.
The women’s team will be led by 15-year-old Cecilia Cho (Auckland) with 13-year-old Lydia Ko (Gulf Harbour) and 22-year-old Caroline Bon (Whangarei). Full story here (NZ herald)
