TIGER WOODS and Phil Mickelson are poised for a £2million winner-takes-all shootout with the victor likely to donate his jackpot to charity. Pay-per-view TV executives jumped on the idea after it was floated by Mickelson before the long-time rivals teed off together in the opening two rounds of the Players Championship. Mickelson said he would […]
JUSTIN ROSE conjured up a magical shot to prevent his hopes of becoming world No1 from vanishing. Rose needs to win The Players Championship to give himself a chance of ending Dustin Johnson’s 15-month reign at the top of the world rankings. But the English ace, 37, was alarmed to see Johnson — who has […]
JUSTIN ROSE has an added incentive to win the Players Championship. Because it could make him just the second English Major winner to reach world No 1. A leap from fifth to first would see 2013 US Open champion Rose, 37, follow in the footsteps of six-time Major champion Nick Faldo. True, Luke Donald and […]
PHIL MICKELSON has been telling golf’s young guns the kind of play Tiger Woods produced the last time they played together at Sawgrass had to be seen to be believed. The old sparring partners will go head to head at the Players Championship tomorrow and Friday, for the first time since 2001, when Woods was […]
RORY McILROY renewed his love affair with Quail Hollow as he made a fine return to action after his latest Masters misery. The Northern Irishman, 28, shot a three-under-par 68 in the first round of the Wells Fargo Championship, his first outing since blowing his Grand Slam hopes with a closing 74 at Augusta. He […]