By Tony Jimenez WOBURN, England, Oct 9 (Reuters) – Padraig Harrington’s euphoric mood following Ireland’s shock Euro 2016 qualifying win over world soccer champions Germany the night before evaporated all too quickly at the British Masters on Friday. “I putted well yesterday but today I had three three-putts early on that put me on the back foot for the rest of the round,” Harrington told Reuters in an interview after
By Peter Rutherford INCHEON, South Korea (Reuters) – An obscure penalty clause, tucked away in the farthest depths of golf’s rulebook, took center stage at the Presidents Cup on Friday after Phil Mickelson changed the type of ball he had been playing with mid-round. Mickelson and U.S. playing partner Zach Johnson were all square through six against the Internationals’ Jason Day and Adam Scott when Mickelson switched to a harder
By Peter Rutherford INCHEON, South Korea (Reuters) – An obscure penalty clause, tucked away in the farthest depths of golf’s rulebook, took center stage at the Presidents Cup on Friday after Phil Mickelson changed the type of ball he had been playing with mid-round. Mickelson and U.S. playing partner Zach Johnson were all square through six against the Internationals’ Jason Day and Adam Scott when Mickelson switched to a harder
By Peter Rutherford INCHEON, South Korea, Oct 9 (Reuters) – An obscure penalty clause, tucked away in the farthest depths of golf’s rulebook, took centre stage at the Presidents Cup on Friday after Phil Mickelson changed the type of ball he had been playing with mid-round. Mickelson and U.S. playing partner Zach Johnson were all square through six against the Internationals’ Jason Day and Adam Scott when Mickelson switched to
By Peter Rutherford INCHEON, South Korea, Oct 9 (Reuters) – An obscure penalty clause, tucked away in the farthest depths of golf’s rulebook, took centre stage at the Presidents Cup on Friday after Phil Mickelson changed the type of ball he had been playing with mid-round. Mickelson and U.S. playing partner Zach Johnson were all square through six against the Internationals’ Jason Day and Adam Scott when Mickelson switched to
By Dominic Evans and Parisa Hafezi BEIRUT/ANKARA (Reuters) – Islamic State fighters have seized villages close to the city of Aleppo from rival insurgents, a monitoring group said on Friday, despite a Russian air-and-sea campaign that Moscow says has targeted the militant group. The Russian defense ministry said air strikes on rebel positions in northern Syria had killed 300 anti-Assad insurgents in nearly 70 sorties over the last day. The
By Dominic Evans and Parisa Hafezi BEIRUT/ANKARA (Reuters) – Islamic State fighters have seized villages close to the city of Aleppo from rival insurgents, a monitoring group said on Friday, despite a Russian air-and-sea campaign that Moscow says has targeted the militant group. The Russian defense ministry said air strikes on rebel positions in northern Syria had killed 300 anti-Assad insurgents in nearly 70 sorties over the last day. The
Russia’s air force hit 60 Islamic State targets in Syria over the past 24 hours and killed around 300 militants, the Defense Ministry said on Friday, in Moscow’s most intense raids yet since it first launched strikes on Syria 10 days ago. The increased pace of attacks was aimed at preventing militants from re-grouping and dispersing in populated areas, the ministry said. The ministry said in a statement that air