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Wyndham Championship collated

Published on: 24th August, 2010

Collated second round scores & totals in the USPGA Tour Wyndham Championship, Sedgefield Country Club, Greensboro, United States of America
(USA unless stated, par 70):

128 Arjun Atwal (Ind) 61 67, Brandt Snedeker 63 65

129 John Full Article

Swedes lead the way

Published on: 24th August, 2010

The Czech Open reached its halfway stage on Friday with no fewer than 13 players separated by just two shots at the end of the second round in Celadna.

Two of them, Peter Hanson and Simon Dyson, are chasing a Ryder Cup place with the former, 15th on the points table, sharing the lead on seven under par with fellow Swede Fredrik Widmark.

Dyson, who stands one place below Hanson in the cup standings with only one week to go, is on five under as he also chases the win which would propel him towards an automatic selection at the expense of Paul Casey.

Hanson, who only Full Article

Pavin – Woods is doing okay

Published on: 23rd August, 2010

United States Ryder Cup captain Corey Pavin insists Tiger Woods is not playing as badly as most people think.

The world number one has looked a shadow of his former self in 2010 with the ghost of November’s sex scandal still following him.

He returned to finish fourth in both the Masters and the US Open but continues to struggle on the putting green and with his swing.

But Pavin, who has to name his four wildcard picks for the US team on September 7, believes Woods should not be judged against his past performances.

Standards

“I think he played Full Article

Kim keen to impress

Published on: 23rd August, 2010

Anthony Kim continues his return from thumb surgery at this week’s Wyndham Championship hoping to confirm his Ryder Cup wildcard credentials.

The tournament at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina is Kim’s third event back. He finished 76th out of 80 at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and missed the cut in the USPGA Championship.

Those two performances proved costly. Second on the Ryder Cup table when he decided to have an operation in May, he was fifth when he came back but has been overtaken in the last two weeks by Hunter Mahan, Bubba Watson, Full Article

Atwal claims shock lead

Published on: 22nd August, 2010

World number 450 Arjun Atwal surged into the lead after carding an opening round 61 at the Wyndham Championship in North Carolina.

The 37-year-old Indian equalled the course record at the Sedgefield Country Club with a flawless round which included nine birdies.

Atwal, who only qualified for the tournament on Monday, holds a two-shot lead over former champion Brandt Snedeker with a group of six players a shot further back.

American Snedeker, who won the event in 2007 when it was held at Forest Oaks, registered five consecutive birdies before dropping his only shot of Full Article

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