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EXCLUSIVE ….. Double BMW PGA Championship winner Billy Horschel believes after a season of gut-wrenching new misses, Rory McIlroy will head into a New Year set to enjoy golfing greatness. It was less than a fortnight ago when Hoschel brilliantly pulled the Wentworth winning championship rug right out from the feet of rivals McIlroy and South African Triston Lawrence in a play-off at DP World Tour HQ. Horschel, 37, sensationally holed an eagle putt at the second extra hole to capture a second ...

It what has been confirmed a first in either mens or womens professional team golf competition and Mike Weir’s International Team has shattered Amercian dreams of capturing a 10th straight Presidents Cup in handing out a stunning second round 5-0 thrashing to their more fancied rivals. Weir’s team of Internationals were left reeling on Thursday beaten 5-o in the opening series of matches on the host Royal Montreal course. It the fourth occasion since the inception of the teams event in ...

It has been one year shy of 50-years since golf legend Arnold Palmer captured the 1975 Spanish Open. Arnie did so just a year after compatriot Jerry Heard became the first American to win the Spanish title and in an event that was first staged in 1912. Now after two rounds of this year’s Acciona Open de España and it is Arnie’s and Jerry’s compatriot Patrick Reed who has put himself in strong contention to become just the third American-born winner of Spain’s premier event. Reed ...

This week’s acciona Open de Espansia marks another plus in the re-emergence of Italian-born golfing heart-throb Matteo Manassero. Manassero, 31, will tee-up in the Spanish capital as the new World No. 86 and the first time he has been ranked inside the top-100 on the official World Rankings since the first week of November, 2014, Yes, it’s been just a few weeks shy of a decade since one of golf’s more affable competitors was last among the top-10o when in the week following missing ...

Danish-born golfers have denied overwhelming crowd favourite Rory McIlroy’s expected victory celebration for a second occasion at the host Royal County Down course. Fifteen years ago Soren Kjeldsen was handed the gleaming Irish Open trophy by McIlroy, the then tournament host after McIlroy had hopelessly missed the halfway cut at the famed Northern Ireland course. Now Kjeldsen’s young compatriot Rasmus Hogjaard has also denied McIlroy his maiden tournament victoy in Northern Ireland by ...

Scot Grant Forrest heads to this week’s Tour flagship event at Wentworth buoyed by his best finish all year at the Amgen Irish Open. Forrest, 31, grabbed seven birdies in a five-under par 66 to secure a share of fifth place at four-under on the host Royal County Down course. The Scot’s effort handed the Craigielaw-attached Forrest a best Tour result since a share of fourth at last December’s co-sanctioned Australian Open in Sydney. A year ago, Forrest had shared third place in the Irish Open ...

History beckons for top-Scot Robert MacIntyre heading to the final round of the Amgen Irish Open at Royal County Down. MacIntyre is staring at becoming the first golfer ever to capture both the Scottish Open and Irish Open victory trophies in the same season. The Oban lefty battled the ‘brutal’ windy conditions to be just one of only four players on golf’s traditional ‘moving day’ to break 70 in signing for a two-under par 69 on the famed Northern Ireland course at Newcastle to the south ...