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Show us your briefs

// September 11th, 2009 // News

Golf headlines and briefs from around the world. Mrbojumbles shiny new feature ‘Show us your briefs’.

> 17-year-old Japanese golf sensation Ryo Ishikawa and Aussie Hacker Adam Scott have been named as the wild cards on Greg Normans Presidents Cup team. The inclusion of “The Bashfull Prince” comes as no surprise after winning four times on the Japan Golf Tour in the last calendar year and has huge TV pulling power for the Asian continent. As for Scott… what the hell has he done to justify this? Frank Nobilo who is Normans vice captain for the ‘rest of the world team’ can’t have been able to pry the patriotism from the frim grip of the Shark. Honestly this decision makes no sense at all. If I was Danny tee I’d feel short changed. People who think Rory Sabitini should have got the call up are strange.

> As for US captain Fred Couple’s, his wild card picks were no surprise at all – US Open champion Lucas Glover and Hunter Mahan. Fantastic picks. Apparently Brian Gay was taking his non selection hard. Tough bickies.

> Danny Lee finished with an impressive share of 10th place last week in his first European Tour outing (as a pro) at the Johnnie Walker Championships in Scotland.

> Danny Lee will partner David Smail when he makes his debut for New Zealand at the World Cup golf event in China in November. Smail, at 92nd in the world, and Lee, at 116th, are New Zealand’s top ranked players. The two-man team is to tee it up against 27 other countries over 72 holes of strokeplay at Mission Hills Golf Club on November 26-29.

> Struggling New Zealand golfer Michael Campbell has put his multimillion-dollar British mansion on the market in order to move his family to Sydney. His sprawling seven-bedroom home in the seaside town of Brighton is for sale for $6.8m. He and his wife Julie plan to relocate permanently to the plush eastern Sydney suburb of Bellevue Hill with their two sons. Cambo plans an extensive two-year restoration of the 100-year-old, six-bedroom beachfront home which he and Julie bought three years ago for $11m. Is this the first sign that Cambo will do the full Baker-Finch and join compatriots Nobilo and Perks on the CBS commentary team in the near future?

> This week Cambo is sitting second last in the Mercedes-Benz Championship in Cologne, Germany. The tournament is one of the European Tours glitter events on the calendar but it’s shaping up to be a long week for our maori warrior, there’s no cut in the four round stroke play event but I guess Cambo can take heart from being four in front of world famous Indian golfer Shiv Shankar Prasad Chowrasia after two rounds.

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