Jordan Spieth got his Open campaign off to a promising start at St Andrews on Thursday, but in the end he had to bow to playing partner Dustin Johnson. Tiger Woods meanwhile had another round of major misery and already he is facing a battle to avoid a third missed cut in the last four majors. Spieth got the better of Johnson on the 18th hole last month when he
At the venue where he stamped his greatness on the sport with the lowest score to par in major golf history, Tiger Woods trudged off the 18th at St Andrews on Thursday with his spectacular decline well and truly validated by the Old Course. As Jordan Spieth effortlessly assumed the mantle of golf’s number one draw with a five-under par 67 and Dustin Johnson went two better with a 65,
American Robert Streb made a dream British Open debut on Thursday when he carded a six-under-par 66 to set the early pace at St Andrews and said he had Tom Watson to thank for helping him tame the Old Course. Streb, 28, has almost no experience of links golf and had never been to St Andrews before this week but looked completely at home, albeit with ideal conditions for the
Remember the Mini Superleggera Vision Concept from the 2014 Concorso d’Eleganza at Villa d’Este in Italy? It was a lot of things—low, sleek, topless, unabashedly oriented toward back-road fun rather than boxy practicality. It was a great little concept, a seeming flight of fancy, but as Autocar reports, Mini’s top brass really want to make it a production vehicle. – The British car mag quotes Mini boss Peter Schwarzenbauer as
-We can’t say we’ve ever legitimately yearned for the debut of a new compact crossover, but things are somewhat different when it comes to the 2016 Mazda CX-3. With knockout styling, a lush interior, and an engaging chassis, it’s hard not to be smitten by the tiny Mazda crossover. Having poked, prodded, and tested the CX-3, the only question mark left hanging over it is the price—and that key metric has
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– Wheezing up the passes of France’s Vosges mountains in a European-market, 208-hp Mercedes-Benz GLC250, we felt that a few extra ponies will be in high order. And indeed, Daimler will bring to the U.S. market the GLC300 instead—powered by the same 2.0-liter turbo four but jacked up to 241 horsepower. But it might be worth waiting for the 2017 model year. – Next summer, the company will launch the
-The best thing about Fiat’s new 500X crossover is that it has almost nothing in common with the Fiats currently languishing on dealer lots. Fiat sales are down 13 percent overall this year, and June sales were off 30 percent from the same month in 2014, the worst performance among all auto brands. Nobody at Fiat-Chrysler should be surprised. The Italian brand’s core product, the tiny 500, is entering its
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– The McLaren 675LT takes everything we like about the 650S (which is a lot) and just makes it all better. Who cares if the “long tail” is just an inch longer than the car it’s based on and is more for marketing than for a true long tail? – We don’t. – Just listen to the way the V-8 sounds and look at how it goes around those corners.
