Aug9 USPGA Euros
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Quite apart from Graeme Storm’s extraordinary Thursday, it was a great day for many of the 30 Europeans in the field. Open Champion, Padraig Harrington, has suggested on many occasions since Carnoustie that other Euros may now find it easier to win major championships, and there is already some evidence that this could be true.
Lee Westwood shot a 1-under-par 69, which he said could just have easily been a 65. “I drove the ball really well today,” he said, “and hit a lot of fairways. In fact, I think I only missed two all day. I’ve been playing well since the beginning of the year in Asia and Europe, and got myself into positions without really capitalising on them.”
And, Padraig Harrington came back from a rocky start to make three consecutive birdies from the 13th, and finish also with a 69.
The US PGA Leaderboard:
65 Graeme Storm
67 John Daly
68 Aaron Oberholser, Woody Austin
69 Mark Wilson, Camillo Villegas, Marcus Brier, Geoff Ogilvy, Lee Westwoon, Padraig Harrington, John Senden, Stephen Ames
Other European scores:
70 Sergio Garcia, Justin Rose
71 Niclas Fasth, Ian Poulter
72 Paul Casey, Luke Donald, Peter Hanson, Colin Montgomerie,
73 Thomas Bjorn, Bradley Dredge, Simon Dyson, Robert Karlsson
74 Soren Hanson
75 Gregory Havret, Jose Maria Olazabal, Henrik Stenson
76 Raphael Jaquelin
77 Darren Clarke
79 Johan Edfors
Withdrawn: Anthony Wall
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