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The 2022 New Zealand Open is a big winner following the R & As confirmation of those tournaments around the golfing globe to offer places into July’s 150th hosting of the Open Championship. The R & A advised a total of 46 players qualifying in 16 events and in tournaments hosted in 11 countries will earn a tee-time on the Old Course at St. Andrews. Absent from staging an Open qualifier, and for the second time in as many years, will be the Australian Open and given both the 2020 and ...

Graeme McDowell has labeled Tiger Woods the epitome of ‘Golf’ and declaring also Woods is the ‘PGA Tour’ ahead of TW’s return to competition later this week in Orlando. Woods will tee-up, and with 12-year-old son Charlie as his partner, in the 25th edition of the PNC Championship on the Ritz Carlton course. McDowell is yet to contest the event with any member of his own family, but has joined the huge chorus of fellow Tour stars excited Woods will be back inside the ropes for ...

….. by Fatiha Betscher (AGW member)  Great news with the Association of Golf Writers (AGW)  announcing the victorious European Solheim Cup team has been voted by members as the recipient of the 2021 AGW Golf Writers Trophy. Captained by Scotland’s Catriona Matthew OBE, the team became only the second European side to win on US soil in the biennial event, defeating the USA 15-13 in a thrilling match at the Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio. The triumph saw Matthew, who had already ...

Graeme McDowell headed into the traditional Christmas/New Year break from competition pleased with his game in ending a 20th season in the pro-ranks with he and Canadian-born partner Corey Conners sharing fifth place in the 12-team QBE Shootout near Naples in Florida. The pair posted a four-ball last day eight-under par 64 for a three-round 28-under par tally on the Gold course at the Tiburon resort. The all-American pair of Kevin Na and Jason Kokrak came from behind to take out the title thanks ...

It’s not often a champion golfer such as Graeme McDowell wishes to be reminded of an errant shot hitting a spectator and in this case how a shot he hit on route to victory at the 2010 U.S. Open champion affected the life of the unlucky Pebble Beach patron. It has bizarrely emerged via a McDowell tweet posted soon after he and playing partner, Corey Conners teamed to produce a 15-under par 57 on the opening day of the QBE Shootout in Naple, Florida of the events of 12-years ago along the Pacific ...

Graeme McDowell was delighted to be ‘burning daylight’ as playing partner Corey Conners combined to be just one from the lead with a 15-under par 57 on day one of the QBE Championship. McDowell and Conners brilliantly posted a 17th hole eagle ‘3’ and 13 birdies in a best-ball format but under a ‘preferred lie’ rule on the Gold course at Tiburon near Naples on Florida’s west coast. It handed the 41-year-old McDowell and his 29-year-old team-mate the lead before being overhauled by the ...

.… by Fatiha Betscher  Tiger Woods’ fellow competitors have reacted unanimously in supporting the 15-time major winner’s decision to return to formal competition at next week’s PNC Championship in suburban Orlando. It comes as no surprise Woods has chosen to return to competition some 10-months after his near fatal single car crash in suburban L. A. It was www.golfbytourmiss.com who reported earlier this week Woods’ likelihood of entering the PNC Championship given how good he ...