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Daily Mail
22-05-2025
- Sport
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Inside the turmoil at Lancashire - what's gone wrong, who's to blame and how they fix it, reveals DAVID 'BUMBLE' LLOYD
It has been a tumultuous season so far for my club Lancashire. Last week, we were branded the worst team in England after going bottom of Division Two of the County Championship - and there was a reaction.
NBC Sports
11-05-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Lowry shares 'grind' of Philadelphia Cricket Club
Truist Championship co-leader Shane Lowry shares the "grind" of Philadelphia's Cricket Club during Round 3 and why he expects low numbers in the final round with minimal wind anticipated.
Kuwait Times
09-05-2025
- Sport
- Kuwait Times
McIlroy moves on after Masters win to defend PGA Truist title
WASHINGTON: Having won the Masters to complete a career Grand Slam and end a 10-year major win drought, Rory McIlroy is ready to move on starting at this week's PGA Truist Championship. The 36-year-old from Northern Ireland has won the event four times at Quail Hollow, but this year the event has been moved to Philadelphia Cricket Club because next week's PGA Championship, the year's second major event, is being played there. 'It doesn't quite feel like a defense, but it's good to be here. It's always, at this stage of my career, cool to come to new venues, see new golf courses, and do new things,' McIlroy said on Wednesday. 'First week, I guess, as an individual coming back and playing over the last few weeks. I'm excited to get back to being a golfer. It's nice to get back into the routine again and get back to what I know how to do.' McIlroy had put himself on the brink of the career Slam in 2014, when he won the Open and PGA championships, but he failed 10 times after that to win the Masters before finally claiming the green jacket with an emotional playoff triumph last month over England's Justin Rose at Augusta National. 'I always had hope. It's not as if I wasn't going to show up at Augusta and feel like I couldn't win,' McIlroy said. 'I always felt like I had the game. And like I think, as everyone saw on that back nine on Sunday, it was about getting over—I don't know what the right phrase is, but defeating my own mind was sort of the big thing for me and getting over that hurdle. 'I'm just glad that it's done. I don't want to ever have to go back to that Sunday afternoon again. I'm glad I finished the way I did and we can all move on with our lives.' McIlroy, who celebrated a birthday last Sunday, played alongside Ireland's Shane Lowry at a pairs event two weeks ago but this marks his solo PGA return as well as his last tuneup for the PGA Championship. After a week celebrating with family and friends in Europe, with McIlroy admitting that when he saw his mother 'we were both a mess for a few minutes,' he spent three days last week practicing and some time in New York. 'That period is sort of behind me, and I'm looking forward to the next few months,' McIlroy said. Bowler over batsman This week, that means dealing with an unfamiliar Cricket Club layout, one that had him recalling his youth cricketer days at Sullivan Upper School in Northern Ireland. 'I actually preferred bowling than batting,' McIlroy said. 'I never really wanted to get hit by the ball.' This week, he'll be hitting the ball with his clubs on a renovated layout. 'These new renovated old school courses, the strategy is just hit driver everywhere and then figure it out from there. That's sort of the strategy of this place this week,' he said. 'It's an older course that has been renovated, and I think they've done a really good job with it. Every par-four out there is like 430, 440. They sort of feel like they're 40 or 50 yards (more) than what they need to be. Still, it's a cool track to play.' – AFP
Hamilton Spectator
08-05-2025
- Sport
- Hamilton Spectator
Fowler shows old spark with 8 birdies in strong start at the Truist Championship
FLOURTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Rickie Fowler heard about the complaints — mostly from puzzled fans — after he received an invitation to play next weekend in the PGA Championship. His retort? Keep the whining coming. 'The negative stuff, I would say, kind of helps me in a way because it fuels me to kind of go out and prove people wrong,' Fowler said. Fowler answered his critics at the Truist Championship with the kind of play that showed he can still be considered a threat to win, even if he actually hasn't taken a tournament since 2023 . 'I've been happy with where my game's been at for quite a while. I just haven't really seen the product of the work I'm putting in or what I feel like I can produce,' he said. 'This was a little better day.' Fowler reeled off eight birdies and a bogey to shoot a 7-under-63 on Thursday at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, leaving him two strokes behind leader Keith Mitchell. 'You obviously want to come out and prove yourself,' Fowler said. 'I haven't been playing all that well last year and the start of this year. It hasn't been very far off.' The 36-year-old Fowler absorbed some criticism this week when the PGA Championship released its field for next week at Quail Hollow. The PGA Championship offered an invitation to Fowler, who has plunged to No. 125 in the world and missed the Masters. There is a category for players in the most recent Ryder Cup — Fowler was at Marco Simone in Italy — provided they are among the top 100 in the world. Fowler's first PGA Tour victory was at Quail Hollow in 2012. His best finish at the PGA Championship came in 2014 when he tied for third. Fowler was ranked 146th in the world when he received an invitation into the 2022 PGA Championship. Fowler, a six-time winner on the tour, has played in nine events this year without a top-10 finish and needed a sponsor exemption to play this weekend at the suburban Philadelphia course. It's not quite the way he wanted to qualify for tournaments — but Fowler will take it. 'A number of exemptions this year, which I'm very, very happy for and appreciate it from the sponsors and the tournament directors,' he said. 'You want to come out and play well. So off to a good start and looking forward to keeping it rolling.' Fowler's winless streak stretches to July 2023 when he made a 12-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole of the Rocket Mortgage Classic and outlasted Collin Morikawa and Adam Hadwin to win in Detroit. His putting was strong at the Cricket Club. Fowler made a 13-foot birdie putt on the par-4 seventh hole that kept him among the leaders and finished with a birdie on 18 to cap his outing. He called the the birdie the shot of his round after his bogey-5 on No. 17. 'I think making birdie there, hit a nice drive off of the last, good shot in there with 6-iron,' he said. 'Hard to pick out one shot. I'll pick the 18th hole.' Maybe his effort was the result of a course where 10 players shot under 65. He also didn't want to play catch-up with rain in the forecast. 'My body's feeling better, kind of allowing me to go play golf,' Fowler said. 'We made a minor adjustment yesterday, put my irons a degree up. I felt like I was making good swings and zeroing things out, and the ball was just hanging a little right from what I wanted to see. So it was good to kind of see things tighten up with irons today.' For anyone else who thinks he can't win, Fowler recalled a 2015 Sports Illustrated player poll that named him one of the most overrated players on the tour. He promptly went out and won the The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass. 'That worked out all right that week,' he said. ___ AP golf:
NBC Sports
08-05-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Rickie Fowler looks to silence critics, off to good start at Truist Championship
FLOURTOWN, Pa. — Rickie Fowler heard about the complaints — mostly from puzzled fans — after he received an invitation to play next weekend in the PGA Championship. His retort? Keep the whining coming. 'The negative stuff, I would say, kind of helps me in a way because it fuels me to kind of go out and prove people wrong,' Fowler said. Fowler answered his critics at the Truist Championship with the kind of play that showed he can still be considered a threat to win, even if he actually hasn't taken a tournament since 2023 . 'I've been happy with where my game's been at for quite a while. I just haven't really seen the product of the work I'm putting in or what I feel like I can produce,' he said. 'This was a little better day.' Fowler reeled off eight birdies and a bogey to shoot a 7-under-63 on Thursday at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, leaving him two strokes behind leader Keith Mitchell. 'You obviously want to come out and prove yourself,' Fowler said. 'I haven't been playing all that well last year and the start of this year. It hasn't been very far off.' The 36-year-old Fowler absorbed some criticism this week when the PGA Championship released its field for next week at Quail Hollow. The PGA Championship offered an invitation to Fowler, who has plunged to No. 125 in the world and missed the Masters. There is a category for players in the most recent Ryder Cup — Fowler was at Marco Simone in Italy — provided they are among the top 100 in the world. Fowler's first PGA Tour victory was at Quail Hollow in 2012. His best finish at the PGA Championship came in 2014 when he tied for third. Fowler was ranked 146th in the world when he received an invitation into the 2022 PGA Championship. Fowler, a six-time winner on the Tour, has played in nine events this year without a top-10 finish and needed a sponsor exemption to play this weekend at the suburban Philadelphia course. It's not quite the way he wanted to qualify for tournaments — but Fowler will take it. 'A number of exemptions this year, which I'm very, very happy for and appreciate it from the sponsors and the tournament directors,' he said. 'You want to come out and play well. So off to a good start and looking forward to keeping it rolling.' Fowler's winless streak stretches to July 2023 when he made a 12-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole of the Rocket Mortgage Classic and outlasted Collin Morikawa and Adam Hadwin to win in Detroit. His putting was strong at the Cricket Club. Fowler made a 13-foot birdie putt on the par-4 seventh hole that kept him among the leaders and finished with a birdie on 18 to cap his outing. He called the the birdie the shot of his round after his bogey-5 on No. 17. 'I think making birdie there, hit a nice drive off of the last, good shot in there with 6-iron,' he said. 'Hard to pick out one shot. I'll pick the 18th hole.' Maybe his effort was the result of a course where 10 players shot under 65. He also didn't want to play catch-up with rain in the forecast. 'My body's feeling better, kind of allowing me to go play golf,' Fowler said. 'We made a minor adjustment yesterday, put my irons a degree up. I felt like I was making good swings and zeroing things out, and the ball was just hanging a little right from what I wanted to see. So it was good to kind of see things tighten up with irons today.' For anyone else who thinks he can't win, Fowler recalled a 2015 Sports Illustrated player poll that named him one of the most overrated players on the tour. He promptly went out and won the The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass. 'That worked out all right that week,' he said.
