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In an highly-explosive and recently released book, former Golf Channel announcer Lisa Cornwell has slammed the misogynistic practices at the dedicated golf-only channel. Though Cornwell has saved her harshest words for Brandel Chamblee, who she admits clearly wanted her sacked from the day she began working at The Golf Channel. Indeed, Cornwell devotes an entire chapter in her book to Chamblee, the one-time PGA Tour winner who has got up the nose of many, including more-recently Phil Mickelson, and ...

It is hardly a surprise to learn the R & A has ‘blacklisted’ Trump Turnberry from hosting any further Open Championship while bearing the Trump name. It’s 14-years ago Turnberry last hosted golf’s oldest major with the staging of the 2009 Open won by Stewart Cink when he defeated Tom Watson in a play-off. Trump purchased the Turnberry complex five years later and with strong suggestions then in 2014 that while Turnberry was now under Trump ownership  it was off the Open Championship ...

It was a decade ago the 2013 PGA Championship was last staged at Oak Hill Country Club course at Pittsford in upstate New York. I had been in attendance at the 2011 championship when Keegan Bradley denied fellow American Jason Dufner in a play-off in suburban Atlanta, so when Dufner was assured of being handed the gleaming Rodman Wanamaker trophy two years on it was if Dufner had made amends for his play-off defeat. Dufner was then aged 36 and after losing out in a play-off at the 2012 Phoenix Open, ...

Rory McIlroy has seemingly gone all quite on anything to do with LIV Golf ahead of this week’s PGA Championship at Rochester in upstate New York. The double PGA Championship winner from 2012 and 2014 faced the assembled media fielding 28 questions in his pre-tournament press conference. Just two of those questions centered on LIV Golf, and while McIlroy has been the unofficial ‘voice’ of the PGA Tour for so long, not on this occasion. The first question McIlroy faced was the fifth ...

An emotional Jason Day revealed he thought of quitting the game in ending a five-year winless drought to capture a second AT & T Byron Nelson championship at TPC Harding Ranch in Texas. Day, 35, had not tasted success since capturing the 2018 Wells Fargo Championship but is back in the winner’s enclosure thanks to a stunning closing round 62 to claim a 13th PGA Tour win and the 19th victory in his pro career. Waiting to greet the Aussie on a wet Mother’s Day in suburban Dallas was ...

Scot Stephen Gallacher may be the second oldest teeing-up in this week’s Italian Open but he’s also in the field with a younger generation of golfers at heart. Gallacher, 48, received the last of six tournament Rome invitations shortly after finishing top-15 in last Sunday’s Abu Dhabi Challenge. The Bathgate pro already this year has found himself playing where he can, having forfeited full DP World Tour membership at the end of 2022 in not being fully exempt since a first full season in 1999. However, ...

Fifteen years ago a son of a Spanish fish farmer defied the might of the European Tour sensationally hooking a maiden victory in the oldest ‘Open’ golf tournament on Continental Europe. A then 25-year old Pablo Larrazabal left the golf world floundering, leading from start-to-finish in capturing a maiden Tour title at the 2008 Open de France title at the Le National course outside of Versailles. For the Barcelona-born Larrazabal, it was only his 16th European Tour event, having finished ...