Thursday, May 30, 2013

SCOT BRUCE LYING JOINT SECOND IN IRISH SENIORS

Edzell's Keith Bruce is lying joint second, three shots off the pace, after two rounds of the Irish senior men's amateur open championship at Malone Golf Club.
Keith has put together rounds of 73 and 76 for 149.
The second round was played in a stiff wind.
Leader is Irishman Michael Quirke (Duneraile) with scores of 70 and 76 for 146. Another Irishman, Tom Tyrrell (The Heath) is sharing second place with Bruce after rounds of 74-75.
 Four Scots in all have made it through to Friday's third and final round - Callander's Gordon MacDonald (82-74) on 156, the same total as Derek Murphy (Kinross) (78-78) and James Kinloch (Cardross) on 160 (82-78). James


QUALIFIERS FOR FINAL ROUND

146 M Quirke (Doneraile) 70 76

149 T Tyrrell (The Heath) 74 75, K Bruce (Scotland) 73 76

150 M Kelly (Killeen) 76 74, B Hargraves (USA) 75 75

151 R Sharp (Mourne) 76 75

152 R McDowell (Royal Belfast) 78 74, B Stewart (Scotland) 77 75, A Stracey (England) 77 75

153 A Morrow (Portmarnock) 80 73, J Sutton (Isle of Man) 79 74, D O'Donovan (Bandon) 78 75, M Eager (Lucan) 76 77

154 T Hayes (K Club) 82 72, M Coote (Tralee) 79 75, A Lilley (Ballyclare) 76 78

155 A Carman (England) 80 75, D Lane (England) 78 77, R Brooker (Skerries) 76 79, T Patterson (England) 75 80

156 G MacDonald (Scotland) 82 74, I Southgate (England) 80 76, B O'Malley (The Royal Dublin) 79 77, D Cameron (England) 79 77, T Cleary (Cork) 78 78, D Murphy (Scotland) 78 78

157 M Ahern (Skerries) 81 76, E McMenamin (Ballybofey and Stranorlar) 79 78, N Patterson (Milltown) 79 78, T Gray (Jersey) 78 79, A Pierse (Tipperary) 76 81, B Campbell (England) 76 81, R Berry (Rossmore) 74 83

158 J Ambridge (England) 81 77, H Mackeown (Portmarnock) 78 80, D Conway (Portmarnock) 77 81, G McGimpsey (Bangor) 76 82, B Donlon (Birr) 74 84

159 A McLure (England) 78 81, J Carroll (Bandon) 77 82

160 D Kempner (USA) 83 77, J Kinloch (Scotland) 82 78, B Kissock (Bangor) 81 79, H Smyth (Mourne) 81 79, J Johnston (USA) 80 80, B Brennan (Malone) 78 82, T Goode (Lucan) 78 82, S Fawcett (England) 78 82, D Morris (Limerick) 78 82

161 B Mills (Clandeboye) 84 77, E Crawford (Mourne) 82 79


MISSED THE CUT

161 L MacNamara (Rosslare) 81 80, N Finnegan (Gort) 80 81, J Gilbert (Malone) 80 81, B Grieve (Scotland) 78 83, P Graham (England) 77 84

162 F Hansen (Denmark) 84 78, J Mitchell (Tramore) 82 80, M Martin (Clandeboye) 81 81, I Smyth (Clandeboye) 80 82, R Timlin (Galway) 80 82, F Jules (USA) 79 83

163 S Pond (England) 83 80, W Miscampbell (Malone) 82 81, T Lilly (Slade Valley) 82 81, S McParland (Greenore) 81 82, D Corcoran (Thurles) 81 82, G Finn (Cork) 80 83, J Cullen (Esker Hills) 79 84

164 T Brown (England) 83 81, J Dempsey (Curragh) 82 82, M Temple (USA) 81 83, B McDonnell (K Club) 80 84

165 B Mitchell (Scotland) 85 80, B McCarroll (North West) 84 81, L Gort (Isle of Man) 83 82, K Stevenson (Warrenpoint) 82 83, R Fitzgerald (Tramore) 82 83, M Darcy (Oughterard) 81 84

166 P Cooley (Portstewart) 89 77, S Sander (USA) 85 81, G Rees (Wales) 84 82, J Verner (Clandeboye) 83 83

167 J O'Grady (K Club) 84 83, A Smith (Blainroe) 84 83, D Cunningham (Royal Belfast) 84 83, R Sloan (Carnalea) 81 86, R Jordan (USA) 79 88, P Comerford (Corrstown) 79 88

168 J Paton (Scotland) 87 81, D Weekes (Dunmurry) 86 82, D McCart (Scotland) 85 83, R Cotter (Delgany) 85 83, J Browne (Belvoir Park) 85 83, A Donkersley (England) 84 84, A Brewer (England) 82 86, L Troy (Thurles) 81 87, B Downing (England) 81 87

169 B Edgar (Scotland) 85 84, P O'Kane (USA) 83 86, V Smyth (Co. Louth) 82 87

170 I Stewart (Scotland) 87 83, P Lynch (Slade Valley) 86 84, M Sauter (Germany) 86 84, D McHugh (Douglas) 86 84, A Campbell (Massereene) 84 86, N Mannion (Dun Laoghaire) 84 86, K O'Mahony (Galway) 83 87, J Malone (USA) 83 87

171 I Brown (Castleblayney) 86 85, S Hosty (Galway) 84 87, K Lapsley (Dunfanaghy) 83 88

172 B McCarroll (Ballyliffin) 93 79, J Armstrong (Greenisland) 89 83, N Woods (Bangor) 88 84, I Jeen (Scotland) 87 85, B Saathoff (USA) 87 85, S Jeffers (Isle of Man) 86 86

173 P Kinloch (Scotland) 88 85

174 M Donohue (Portumna) 89 85, P Hautz (Delgany) 85 89

176 J Monahan (USA) 90 86

177 K Murray (Tramore) 87 90

178 S Lynch (England) 96 82


NR J Hansen (Denmark) 97 NR 

RTD G Parkhill (Larne) 82 RTD, T Walinski (USA) 84 RTD


WD N O'Byrne (England) 87 WD

 

 

 

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DUNCAN STEWART TOP SCOT IN CANARIES CHALLENGE


Grantown on Spey's Duncan Stewart shot a first-round, three-under-par 68 to be in joint 15th place at the end of the first round of the Fred Olsen Spanish Challenge tournament at La Gomera on the Canary Islands today.
Next best for the Scottish contingent was Ross Kellett (Motherwell) with a level par 71.
Wallace Booth (Comrie) and Edinburgh-based Jamie McLeary, sharing 62nd place on the 72 mark.
Jack Doherty (North Gailes) had a 73.
Motherwell's Steven O'Hara and Lloyd Saltman (Archerfield Links) did not fare so well.
They are lying joint 125th in a field of 136 with five-over-par 76s.
Frenchman Edouard Dubois leads with an eight-under 63.

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Frenchman Edouard Dubois shot a stunning eight-under-par 63 to take a narrow first-round lead at the Fred Olsen Challenge de España.
Despite a strong, swirling wind coursing over the stunning Tecina Golf lay-out on the small Canary Island of La Gomera, the standard of golf on display was outstanding, with 47 players finishing under par despite the testing conditions. 
No-one revelled in the challenge more readily than the 23 year old Dubois who overhauled a trio of players – compatriot Julien Guerrier, Germany's Nicolas Meitinger and American Brooks Koepka – at seven under.
Dubois got off to a flying start, carding a hat-trick of birdies over the opening three holes before a further trio of birdies from the ninth saw him surge to six under.
The two-time Challenge Tour winner's only dropped shot came at the short 14th after missing the green from the tee, but he bounced back in style, closing out with a birdie at the 16th before a valuable 25-foot eagle putt at the long 17th helped Dubois soar into a one shot advantage over the field following the first day's play in Spain. 
"I hit the ball very well from the tee and my short game was really good because here it is very difficult to get close to the pin," said Dubois. "My putting was also really nice today. I like the course, the place is fantastic.”
 
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Par 71

63 E Dubois (Fra)

64 J Guerrier  (Fra); B Koepka  (USA); N Meitinger  (Ger)

65 J Legarrea (Esp)

66 P Herreria (Esp)

67 B Ritthammer (Ger); D Ulrich (Sui); L Bjerregaard  (Den); I Korvenmaa (Fin); P Relecom  (Bel); M Pastor (Esp); T Pilkadaris (Aus); V Riu  (Fra)

68 E Bertheussen (Nor); A Otaegui  (Esp); D Stewart (Sco); S Thornton (Irl); S Hutsby  (Eng); J Maurer  (Aut)

69 J Timmis (Eng); J Heath  (Eng); C Devlin (Nir); O Whiteley (Eng); L Claverie (Esp); D Brooks (Eng); R Steiner (Aut); S Garcia Rodriguez (Esp); A Bernadet  (Fra); S Kim (SKor)

70 N Elvira  (Esp); B An (Kor); M Ford (Eng); J Watts (Eng); C Hanson (Eng); D Wuensche  (Ger); A Garcia-Heredia (Esp); G Shaw (Nir); D Palm (Swe); N Quintarelli (Ita); A Pavan (Ita); J Parron (Esp); L Goddard  (Eng); D Frittelli (RSA); M Haremza (Ger); M Quiros (Esp); C Russo (Fra)

71 R Kellett (Sco); T Fournier  (Fra); J Abbott (Eng); P Archer (Eng); A Rota (Ita); E Espana (Fra); J Lando Casanova  (Fra); D Geminiani (Ita); C Garcia Simarro (Esp); J Bragulat  (Esp); M Haastrup  (Den); S Manley (Wal); P Fendt (Aut); B Hafthorsson (Isl)

72 D Borda (Esp); L Kennedy  (Eng); J Fahrbring (Swe); J Carlsson (Swe); C Robles (Esp); N Dahlgren (Fin); F Cea (Esp); J Barnes (Eng); M Rominger  (Sui); E Johansen  (Nor); T Nørret (Den); B Etchart  (Esp); R Mattila (Fin); S Walker (Eng); R Harris  (Eng); J McLeary  (Sco); S Fallon (Eng); W Booth  (Sco)

73 B Chapellan (Fra); F Adarraga (Esp); G Piris Mateu (Esp); J Mommo  (Fin); J Gibb (Eng); P Maddy (Eng); A Maestroni  (Ita); S Jeppesen  (Swe); D Griffiths  (Eng); C Ford (Eng); J Doherty  (Sco); T Sluiter  (Ned); C Kim (USA); P Oriol (Esp)

74 J Frazer (Wal); C Suneson (Esp); M Novy  (Cze); J Garcia Pinto (Esp); J Wahlqvist (Swe); D Perrier (Fra); R Quiros  (Esp); P Simard (Esp); A Engell  (Nor); K Borsheim  (Nor); F Laporta (Ita); D Im (USA); A Johansson (Swe); N Ravano (Ita); M Saiz (Esp)

75 S Piaget  (Mon); F Bergamaschi (Ita); D Vancsik (Arg); G Cuquejo (Esp); M Haines  (Eng); F De Vries  (Ned); R Sebastian (Esp); D Kemmer (USA); G Gancedo Onieva (Esp); J Moul  (Eng); P Bech (Esp); A Perrino  (Ita); J Camargo (Esp); M Hermans  (Bel); P Edberg (Swe); K Ferrie (Eng)

76 A Velasco (Esp); F Delamontagne  (Fra); M Kramer  (Ger); J Orozco (Esp); S O'Hara  (Sco)

77 L Saltman (Sco); J Adarraga Gomez  (Esp); A Hortal  (Esp)

78 C Gonzalez Lopez (Esp); I Brown (Eng); J Ferraby (Eng);

80 A Rajmont (Cze) (am)

 
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MORE MANASSERO MAGIC AS HE SHARES LEAD IN SWEDEN

FROM THE EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE
Even his regular record-breaking exploits could not prepare Matteo Manassero for his fantastic start at the Nordea Masters as the Italian shared the first-round lead with Pablo Larrazábal in Sweden today.

The 20 year old Italian, pictured, who, on Sunday, became the youngest winner of the BMW PGA Championship and is the youngest European Tour winner, started with six straight birdies at Bro Hof Slott en route to a six under par 66.

“I’ve never started that well - it was a great start,” he said. “I was making putts and to start like that was strange because I’m not used to it.”

After his blistering start a bogey at the 17th was wiped out by a birdie from ten feet at the first and the four-time European Tour winner produced stunning chips at the second and third to scramble par.

There was a second dropped shot of the day at the fifth, but Manassero responded with a magnificent pitch to within a foot at the next to set up a tap-in birdie and sit alongside Spain’s Larrazábal at the top of the leaderboard.

Afterwards Manassero insisted there was no lingering tiredness from his exploits at Wentworth Club last week.

“I’ve been tired but I woke up and I felt good,” he added. “It’s a tough course when the wind picks up so I think every afternoon is going to be hard.”

The highlight of Larrazábal’s round came with a 40 foot birdie at the fifth, one of seven in the in-form Spaniard’s round.

“I played great, I was five under after ten,” said Larrazábal - who has had four top-12 finishes in his last five events.

“I made birdies on the par fives and held my score. It wasn't easy; the golf course is playing okay this morning but you can make a double or triple bogey. I played safe when I had to and more aggressive when I could.”
All the best scoring was done in the morning session, with Wales’ Jamie Donaldson completing a flawless 67 to sit alongside Swede Fredrik Andersson Hed and English pair Chris Lloyd and Simon Wakefield in the clubhouse on five under.
Only one player form the afternoon could match that score. Home favourite and 2011 winner Alex Noren birdied three of his last four holes - the 18th after a brilliant pitch to two feet - to make it a five-way tie for third.
“It was a tough front nine,” said Noren. “I hit the driver good but didn’t hit the greens I wanted. Then I made birdie on 11 and mentally it was a very nice birdie so it gave me a very nice rhythm.
“To the eye it looks like you can go for everything and what I’ve learned from this course is if you play a bit more conservatively on the par fives – if you’re on the green you will probably make a birdie.”

SCOTSWATCH: Gary Orr, back on the circuit, is the top Scot at the end of the first day with a four-under 68.
Aberdonians Richie Ramsay and Paul Lawrie both shot two-under-par 70s to share 23rd place.
Marc Warren, David Drysdale and Peter Whiteford come next in joint 41st place on 71.

FIRST-ROUND LEADERS
Par 72 
66 Matteo Manassero (Italy), Pablo Larrazabal (Spain).
67 Fredrik Andersson Hed (Sweden), Jamie Donaldson (Wales), Simon Wakefield (England), Chris Lloyd (England), Alexander Noren (Sweden).
68 John Parry (England), Joost Luiten (Holland), Gary Orr (Scotland), Ricardo Santos (Portugal), Alejandro Canizares (Spain).

OTHER SCOTS' SCORES
70 Paul Lawrie, Richie Ramsay (T23)
71 Marc Warren, David Drysdale, Peter Whiteford (T41)
72 Scott Henry, Craig Lee, Chris Doak (T61)
73 Callum Macaulay (T88)
77 Scott Jamieson (T38).

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WALLIS LEADS PGA EUROPRO TOUR EVENT AT BURHILL, SURREY

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Richard Wallis leads the Kerry London Championship by one stroke on six under par after the opening day of the third event of the 888poker.com PGA EuroPro Tour season at Burhill Golf Club in Surrey.


Jack Colegate is one stroke behind Wallis (Walmer and Kingsdown Golf Club) with Ireland’s Richard Weldon (Killen Castle) tied third with Nick McCarthy (Moortown Golf Club) on four under.


Will Roebuck is a further shot off the lead in fifth and ten players are tied sixth on two under par after the first round. 
The top five all started their rounds on the tenth tee of Burhill’s New Course. Wallis made his first of seven birdies on the par-five 11th, before taking just two shots on the 12th, a par three. A third birdie was made on the fifteenth before par breakers at the first, third and sixth on what was his back nine.


A bogey four on the eighth would have stolen Wallis’ place as outright leader had he not responded with a birdie on the ninth. 

Colegate (Rochester and Cobham Park) signed for an unblemished 67 after his opening round at the Kerry London Classic, with birdies at 11, 16, two, five and six sealing his slot just behind leader Wallis.


Weldon made five birdies on his opening round, but a bogey on the seventh forced him to sign for a 68. McCarthy also shot five birdies and a bogey, dropping a shot on the par-four 17th on his way to a four-under first round. 

Following the conclusion of the Kerry London Championship the top five players on the 888poker.com PGA EuroPro Tour Order of Merit will be invited to play in the Challenge Tour’s Scottish Hydro Challenge, along with the top five placed Scottish nationals on the Order of Merit (provided that they are ranked in the top 100). 
This ensures the winner of the Kerry London Championship an invite to the Challenge Tour event in Scotland. 

The Kerry London Championship is a 54-hole strokeplay event. A total of 168 players will play 18 holes on both Thursday, May 30 and Friday, May 31. There will then be a cut to the leading 50 players and ties who will play a final 18 holes on Saturday.


A two-hour highlights show will be broadcast four times on Sky Sports on Wednesday, June 12.


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ELLIOT SALTMAN, DOCHERTY LEAD SCOTS IN SURREY

Elliot Saltman and Paul Doherty, with one-over-par 73s for a share of 24th place, headed the Tartan Army of 14 entries in the first round of the PGA EuroPro Tour event, the Kerry London championship over the New course at Burhill Golf Club, Surrey today (Thursday).
Callum Trahan (74), John Gallagher (75), Andrew Rollo (75), Malcolm Isaacs (75), Mark Rae (76), Neil Fenwick (76), Steven Mackie (76), Paul Shields (77), Gavin Dear (78), Zack Saltman (79) and Jordan Findlay (78) are in danger of not making the 36-hole
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RORY McILROY HAS 78, LEE WESTWOOD 66 IN MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT

FROM THE DAILY TELEGRAPH WEBSITE
Rory McIlroy's miserable run of form showed no sign of abating as he shot an opening-round 78 to finish six over par on the first day of the Memorial Tournament in Ohio.
The Northern Irishman missed the cut at the BMW PGA Championship last week, admitting he had been put off by poor weather at Wentworth.
This week's tournament in Dublin offered McIlroy the chance to put that behind him with the US Open only a fortnight away, but he failed to fire once again.
Starting on the back nine, McIlroy had an ideal first hole with a birdie at the par-four 10th, but it was all uphill from there.
A double-bogey at the 12th heralded a woeful day, with a further three bogeys racked up before the turn.
There was no respite on the front nine as he hit a further three bogeys, interspersed with a birdie at the fifth, before squandering birdies chances at the final two holes.
England's Lee Westwood also endured a miserable opening round of 76.
The Englishman had appeared to be on the brink of victory last week at Wentworth only to squander a two-shot lead in the final round.
While not as disastrous as the round of his Ryder Cup team-mate, Westwood looked in the doldrums as he hit three bogeys and a double-bogey on his way to a four-over total.
In contrast, South Africa's Charl Schwartzel made up for hitting a bogey and a double-bogey with 10 birdies seeing him to a seven-under-par 65.
That was one shot ahead of Scott Piercy, who hit eight birdies - five of them consecutively on the front nine - only to drop shots at the 12th and 18th.
A further shot behind were Josh Teater and Russell Henley, who both shot 67s.
World number one Tiger Woods was among the later starters. 

CLUBHOUSE LEADERBOARD
Par 70
Players from USA unless stated
63 Charl Schwartzel (South Africa)
66 Scott Piercy
67 Josh Teater, Russell Henley, Kyle Stanley, Charlie Wi (S Korea)
68 Matt Kuchar, Bill Haas.

69 Matt Jones, Michael Thompson, Robert Karlsson, Chris Stroud.

SELECTED SCORES
70 Justin Rose (England), Fred Couples (T13)
71 Martin Laird (Scotland), Bubba Watson (T27)
72 Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (Spain) (T41)
73 Ernie Els (South Africa), Luke Donald (England) (T58)
75 Brian Davis (England), Jim Furyk (T86).
76 Lee Westwood (England) (T96).
78 Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland), Shane Lowry (Ireland) (T107)
80 Nicolas Colsaerts (Belgium) (119th).
82 Nick Watney.
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NICKLAUS SAYS GARCIA-WOODS SPAT INDICATES MODERN PLAYERS LIVE LIVES IN MEDIA FISHBOWL

FROM THE REUTERS GOLF NEWS SERVICE
 
DUBLIN, OHIO: When Jack Nicklaus talks, anyone with an interest in golf is well advised to listen and the 18-times major winner delivered in spades as he weighed in on several topics ahead of this week's Memorial Tournament. Tournament host of the US PGA Tour event staged at Muirfield Village Golf Club, Nicklaus gave reporters his opinions on the recent spat between Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia, the venue for next month's U.S. Open and the state of the game in general.
Nicklaus also explained the rationale behind the impressive reconstruction of the massive clubhouse at Muirfield Village, which now forms a horseshoe behind the 18th green as it links up with the media pavilion and the hospitality suites.
"The Sergio-Tiger thing, it's stupid," Nicklaus said in the media interview room on Wednesday, referring to the racist "fried chicken" jibe made by Garcia last week at the expense of the world number one Woods.
"I mean, if guys have an issue one with another, they usually resolve it themselves. You guys want to resolve it in the newspapers today. Nobody needs that. And I think they both finally said it's enough. Forget it, guys. Let's move on."
Spaniard Garcia apologised profusely for his "stupid and out of place" comment during the European Tour's Player of the Year awards in England last week and said he regretted it the moment he made it.
Fourteen-times major winner Woods, whose relationship with Garcia is frosty at best, was initially in an unforgiving mood over the racial stereotyping but on Wednesday he said he had moved on.
"That's already done with," Woods told reporters at Muirfield Village ahead of Thursday's opening round.
According to Nicklaus, players in the modern game have to operate inside a media "fishbowl" where nothing is sacred, something he never had to contend with when in his own prime.
"In our days I suppose there were times when you had an issue with somebody and it came about, you never read about it," said the 73-year-old, long been known as the 'Golden Bear.' "There weren't 20 people sitting around for one guy to write it.
"For the most part, today you're in a fish bowl. You guys write about something, news services are sent all over the place and there's a lot of mountains made out of mole hills.
"It's a different day. Everybody is there and everything is public. So I don't blame the guys sometimes for being a little quiet."
PREVALENT POWER HITTING
Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pennsylvania will stage its first major in 32 years when the U.S. Open is played there from June 13-16.
Long regarded as too short to host a major championship given the power hitting so prevalent in the modern game, the classic, 6,846-yard layout will rise to the challenge in the opinion of Nicklaus.
"Merion will do very well for the U.S. Open," he said. "It's going to have some holes that they (the players) are going to abuse the golf course with, but they're also going to have some holes on the golf course that are going to abuse them.
"It's not one of the golf courses that are in the middle road. It's either tough or they'll birdie the hole. Merion is a great golf course. I'd love to still have the golf game to go play it."
Confident though Nicklaus was about Merion's major credentials, he was less optimistic about the global state of the game as 2013 nears its midway point and appealed for rounds of golf to take no more than three hours for the average player.
"The (US PGA) Tour is very healthy," he said. "But the game of golf in itself has lost a lot of players - some five million or so regular golfers have left the game.
"We've lost 27 percent of women, and 36 percent of the kids in the last five years. Part of it is economy, part of it is the expense of the game, part of it is life has changed. People don't want to spend five hours doing something anymore.
"Nothing lasts longer than golf, unless you're playing a five-set tennis match. So you really need to play the game in three hours or less, that's what we need be to, and we're not there."
However, Nicklaus' eyes lit up when he explained how he gave the green light for reconstruction of the entire clubhouse at Muirfield Village after a good friend, Jack Lucks, had told him it was "1970s California ranch" in style and would never fit in.
"And I said, 'Well, I know that, Jack, but it's like you have what you have and that's what we did back in the '70s when we did this clubhouse.' I sort of liked California ranch, but I don't know if that fits too much in Ohio," Nicklaus grinned.
"I kept looking at it and it didn't really. What we tried to do was do something that would make it a little more timeless ... we tried to bring the clubhouse up to today's standards. I think it's terrific."
(Reporting by Mark Lamport-Stokes; Editing by Frank Pingue)

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ADAM SCOTT BELIEVES US PGA TOUR WILL PERMIT CONTINUED USE OF ANCHORED PUTTERS

FROM THE AGE WEBSITE
Adam Scott says joining a group of US PGA Tour players with legal counsel ready to fight the ban on anchoring putters is just 'business' and he isn't planning to sue the rule makers or US Tour.
While golf's traditional rule makers the United States Golf Association (USGA) and the Royal and Ancient (R and A) made their decision to ban anchoring from 2016, the US PGA Tour, the PGA Tour of Australasia and the PGA of America are among bodies yet to announce whether they will follow suit.
Masters champion Scott is among a group of the tour's long putter users, including fellow major winners Keegan Bradley and Webb Simpson, who have hired Boston-based attorney Harry Manion to represent them over the issue.
But he is hoping the US tour creates its own rule and says hiring legal counsel isn't intended as a threat of a potential lawsuit should they fail to.
"My intention is just to get all the information given to me possible from the US PGA Tour and like anyone else in a business, to have some professional guidance on this issue. That's all it is," Scott said. "I'm not a lawyer and that's not my area of expertise. I don't think I have the ability to get that or ask the right questions.
"So I just want to get that information and make sure that my views are expressed to the Tour.
"There's no intention of filing suit or making problems but this is a business and I'm treating it professionally and I have professional counsel to do that."
Fellow Australian major winner David Graham believes the US PGA Tour should and will ignore the ruling made by the USGA and R and A and have their own rules.
Such a stance would mean players are allowed to anchor in regular tour events but then be banned from doing so at the US Open and British Open, and potentially also the Masters, given the tournament committee indicated they'd likely stay with the rule makers.
"I don't think the US PGA Tour is going to adhere to the rule change and force so many of their members to change their putting techniques just because of the USGA," Graham told AAP.
"The US PGA Tour is not going to be lectured to by the USGA and I don't think they should have to adhere to the USGA anyway.
"I think you might even see Tim Finchem (US PGA Tour commissioner) resign and take early retirement and not have to deal with it and I think the players will band together and say 'why do we have to play under USGA rules, we can play under our own'."
Given his belief the ban won't be put forward, Graham says the debate about how many majors Scott might win is a no-brainer.
"I'm think Scott will win more majors, perhaps four or five or more," Graham said.
"To go from where he was after last year's British Open and turn that around and win any major is a phenomenal tribute to his abilities and I give him high praise."
Scott lines up at this week's Memorial tournament looking to make a further statement, just two weeks out from the US Open at Merion.
"I feel my game is in good shape and I've touched back on the ground now," he said.
"I'm ready to put myself back into contention and get the momentum happening before the US Open."

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