The Scotland pair of Robert MacIntyre and Martin Laird will carry the burden of the Home of Golf nation over these two weeks in Texas of looking to secure a place into next month’s Masters.
At this stage, and with former champ Sandy Lyle having retired from Masters competition, there is no Scottish-born exempt into the 88th hosting of the year’s maiden major starting April 11th at Augusta National.
To ensure this does onto happen for a first time since 1984, MacIntyre or Laird must win ...
Scotland’s Ewen Ferguson reckons the more he gets to play alongside the best in the world the better and more comfortable he’ll become among the game’s elite.
Ferguson, 27, found himself paired for the final round of the Porsche Singapore Classic with one of Europe’s all-time greats in England’s Paul Casey.
Casey, and nearly 20-years older than the Scot, posted a closing round 69, two shots fewer than Ferguson to share sixth place at 13-under-par while the Scot was tied 11th.
The ...
Top-ranked Scot Robert MacIntyre brought some European venom to this week’s Valspar Championship that boasts the famed ‘Snake Pit’ trio of holes with a stinging caddie bib message blatantly trolling Europe’s victory scoreline in last year’s Ryder Cup.
MacIntrye, 27, is contesting the £stg 6.6m Tampa event for a first time in his career and where event organisers allow golfers to post ‘messages’ on their caddie bibs.
Players are given a form to complete and asked to indicate what message ...
A visa delay has ruled former Masters champ Angel Cabrera out of teeing-up in next month’s Masters at Augusta National.
Cabrera, 54, is again eligible to return to competition in the US but his manager has advised US entry authorities indicating it will take eight to 10 weeks and much longer than the April 11 to 14 Masters to process the Argentiean’s entry visa thus ruling him out in returning to Augusta National for a first time since 2019.
Cabrera has now returned to competition for ...
Scot Martin Laird saw a hopeful top-20 finish disappear into the drink after putting two balls into the water at the 71st hole of the Players Championship at Ponte Vedra in Florida.
Laird was lying at four-under for his round and six-under for the $25m flagship tournament when he doubled the par-5 11th but managed to regain the two dropped shots with birdies at 14 and the 16th.
Disaster then struck with the Denver-based Scot putting two balls into the water at the infamous par-3 island green 17th, ...
Jordan Spieth admitted, and what so many had suggested, that he should not got involved in the long drawn-out and painful rules debate that took place involving Rory McIlroy on day one of the Players Championship.
We know that McIlroy’s tee shot at the par-4 seventh hole, and that McIlroy, Spi eth and Viktor Hovland were playing as their 15th on Thursday, hit a bank down the left side of the fairway and kicked straight left into the water.
Spieth’s drive landed safely down the right ...
In reading the transcripts from the opening round of pre-Players Championship interviews I don’t think there has even been so many controversial topics put to a PGA Tour Commissioner in all prior 49 years of the flagship tournament.
In the usual ‘State of the Tour’ address Commissioner Jay Monahan was asked 31 questions and with the transcript boasting 1,670 words.
Monahan faced questions ranging from what would he have done differently the past three years, whether there is a path ...