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.… Albany, The Bahamas  It is an old expression, and it was an expression I recall double English-born World 500cc motor-bike champion Barry Sheene once used and that is ‘the people you pass on the way up, you ​​pass on the way back down’. It’s an expression one c​​ould use in all walks of life and Sheene drew on the phrase in describing a rival, who clearly was intent of caring little about those around him and focussed solely on riding his way to a championship title. Of course, ...

European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald played the proper Ryder Cup straight bat, politely side- any questions relating to Sergio Garcia and being in anyway involved in this week’s 44th hosting of the Ryder Cup. We know how fellow Spaniard Jon Rahm went into bat for Garcia, declaring it was ‘stupid’ not be pick someone of Garcia’s Ryder Cup record-setting credentials to be in Donald’s Marco Simone team. More recently, we read stories of Garcia’s supposed bid to ...

USA Ryder Cup Captain Zach Johnson stressed he is unphased that it’s now 30-years since America won a Ryder Cup on European soil. That was back in 1993 when Tom Watson captained the visiting Americans to a two-point victory over a Bernard Gallacher led European side at The Belfry in England. Of course, the USA arrived in Italy earlier today having trounched a hapless European side two years ago at Whistling Straits but that’s now history and Johnson and his Stars and Stripes are in Europe ...

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler has picked this week’s Ryder Cup to go public with a new putting coach – England-born Phil Kenyon. No sooner had Scheffler arrived at this week’s host Marco Simone course and the six-time PGA Tour winner was seen working with Kenyon, and why wouldn’t he given the American’s present lowly 151st ranking on the Tour’s ‘Strokes Gained in Putting’ stats. World #1 Scottie Scheffler is now working with Phil Kenyon on his putting. ...

Fourteen -year old Charlie Woods continues to impress and with his 15-time major-winning father again on the bag as his caddy. The win qualified Charlie for the final of the Notah Begal 111 National Championship after winning a 14-15 age division qualifing event over the weekend in Florida. It’s not the first time Tiger’s been acting as his son’s caddy and on this latest outing the duo combined for Charlie to post an opening one-under 71 and then backed that up with a second and ...

How good is Leona Maguire? In her 10 Solheim Cup matches, commencing from her rookie appearance in 2021, the now 28-year-old rish golfing wonder has earned Europe 8.5 points. After Europe was white-washed 0-4 in the opening series of matches on Friday at Finca Cortesin it was Maguire’s seven birdie haul two days later in her 4 & 3 white-wash over USA rival Rose Zhang in the second Sunday Singles match that helped inspire Europe to retain the gleaming Solheim Cup. Magnificent Maguire strikes ...

Ryder Cup rookie Robert MacIntyre was wasting little time leaving Versailles after a most disappointing display at the Cazoo French Open. The top-ranked Scot was the only member of Luke Donald’s European Team to enter the prestigious DP World Tour event on the outskirts of Versailles but unlike the visit to the city by King Charles and Queen Camilla, there was no fanfare for MacIntyre as his visit turned horribly pear-shape posting disappointing scores of 71 and 77 for a six-over-par tally, ...

US Open champ Wyndham Clark is very much rocking the pre-Ryder Cup war of words boat declaring how much he wants to beat Rory McIlroy and also how he’d love to ‘have a piece’ of Viktor Hovland at the Rome Ryder Cup. Clark denied McIlroy last June by a shot to capture a first major and now the cocky American Rome rookie wants to prove again he’s a better player than McIlroy by facing him head-to-head in the Italian capital. “That is exactly who I want, I would love to ...