Tiger Woods endured the worst US Open round of his career Thursday with a shocking 10-over 80 at Chambers Bay. It marked Woods’ third round in the 80s this season and he equalled the worst major championship round of his career, bringing back memories of his 10-over 81 at the storm-hit 2002 British Open in Muirfield. It was a tough day,” said Woods, who will turn 40 in December.
By Mark Lamport-Stokes UNIVERSITY PLACE, Washington (Reuters) – Rory McIlroy and Sergio Garcia led a chorus of criticism of the greens during the U.S. Open first round on Thursday but former champion Geoff Ogilvy felt that good putters “would prevail”. World number one McIlroy and eighth-ranked Garcia had both described the putting surfaces at Chambers Bay as too bumpy and below par while American left-hander Phil Mickelson bemoaned the lack
– You snooze, you lose. The last Porsche 918 Spyder has been built; that’s it above, getting a final rubdown. The planned 918-unit production run is completed, and the company claims that all are spoken for, with about 300 ending up in the United States. You can watch the assembly process here, and here are 15 things we learned when we toured the production facility last fall. – The 918 originally appeared
-As the first “all-new” product to debut from the rechristened Lincoln Motor Company, the MKC has had a lot of eyes on it. Even though Lincoln’s compact crossover shares a great deal of its underlying mechanicals with the Ford Escape, that’s no bad place to start. Apparently, U.S. buyers agree and have so far made the 2015 MKC the bestselling entry in Lincoln’s four-vehicle SUV lineup. READ MORE ›› –
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-Looking to build off of the smaller MKC’s success, Lincoln redesigned its MKX crossover for 2016 and is hoping to hit a bullseye in the mid-size luxury SUV space. We’ve said that if the Ford Edge–based MKX turns out as well as the MKC, Lincoln has some hope in this world, and while we have yet to drive an MKX, Lincoln has at least furnished the crossover’s pricing for us
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– BMW has stated that is will offer a plug-in hybrid in each of its major model lines, and the first out of the gate is the X5 xDrive40e. The plug-in SUV arrives this fall as a 2016 model, priced at $63,095 with standard all-wheel drive. As expected, that’s more expensive that the standard, six-cylinder X5 ($54,895 for the sDrive, $57,195 with xDrive); it’s also more than the diesel-fueled X5
By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) – One of Thailand’s leading hospitals, known for treating medical tourists, said on Friday it had received the country’s first case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), as authorities said it had taken nearly four days to confirm the illness. Thailand said on Thursday a 75-year-old businessman from Oman, who had traveled to Bangkok for medical treatment for a heart condition, had tested positive
By Mohammed Ghobari and Tom Miles SANAA/GENEVA (Reuters) – Saudi-led warplanes bombed elite Republican Guard forces allied with the dominant Houthi faction in Yemen’s conflict on Friday, residents said, and U.N.-sponsored ceasefire talks broke off without a deal to end nearly three months of fighting. Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter, intervened militarily out of concern for what it sees as a growing Iranian sway in the Arabian Peninsula,
