DONALD FAVOURITE IN RETURN

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March 16, 2012

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Having lost out on his top spot to youngster Rory McIlroy after he won the Honda Classic a couple of weeks back, former world number one golfer Luke Donald is back again on Tour, aiming to take back the title that he lost when he threw away his match in the World Golf Championship: Accenture Match Play Championship, inadvertently costing him the number one crown.  With McIlroy and another contender to the number one title Lee Westwood taking the week off, experts view Donald’s decision at playing on this week as wise as it gives him the opportunity to cut the lead that McIlroy has at the top.

Moreover, after finishing extremely poorly in the World Golf Championship: Cadillac Championship this week, Luke Donald will be aiming to set things into motion ahead of the next Major tournament by getting his stroke play on the right track, which was one of the main reasons for him losing out in the earlier rounds of the tournament.

He will be a part of the Transitions Championships, one of the most prestigious tournaments on the PGA Tour where he will have to compete with the likes of Webb Simpson, Peter Hanson, Jim Furyk and Justin Rose, but according to the bookies, Donald is their favorite to win the tournament and get his rankings in order once again.

However, that is not easy as it sounds with almost all the players playing in the tournament to mark gather some much needed ranking points and this might prove to be detrimental for Luke Donald, who does not have much experience of playing there before. But on the other hand, having been a world number one, he should be ready to take everything in his stride if he wants to reclaim his number one crown sooner than later.

DONALD BESTED BY ELS

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February 29, 2012

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The very first round of the World Golf Championships – Accenture Match Play Championships saw perhaps one of the biggest upsets in the history of the game as world number one golfer Luke Donald received an old fashioned spanking from Ernie Els, the lowest ranked player in the tournament to get knocked out of the championship that he won handsomely last season. Els spanked the defending champion Donald 5 & 4 in the first round match on the 22nd of February, 2012 to bury the ghosts of his horrible form going into the tournament.

Donald hardly got the space and time to settle down in the game as Els raced to a lead in the very first round after Donald had sunk the ball in the water. The only time that Luke Donald managed to pull level with the South African was on the par-four seventh when he scored his one and only birdie putt of the match. Ever since that hole, Donald seemed to be struggling at all points of the game against a man who, even the punters refused to put their money on.

At one point in the match, it almost seemed that Donald would be happy to run away and hide and not play the game but that didn’t happen and he was thrashed by Els, a term that is used on extremely rare occasions on a sport such as golf. After he squared the match, Donald hardly seemed to be the world number one player and fell behind by five shots by the completion of the next seven holes.

However, Luke Donald almost immediately acknowledged that the better player won the match and admitted that he struggled against the South African Els, saying that he needed to work a lot on his game from now on.