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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, ...

Double LPGA winning star Leona Maguire will be teeing-up in this week’s KPMG PGA Championship around a three-hour drive south-east from where Padraig Harrington will be defending the first of back-to-back Champions Tour titles. Maguire, 28, is coming off a stunning second LPGA triumph in Sunday’s concluding Meijer LPGA Classic when she posted a sizzling last day 64 to win by two shots. Harrington will be defending his Dicks Sporting Goods Open, the tournamen he captured last August, ...

There are many golf courses around the world where you can tee-up where major champions, including 15-time winning Tiger Woods, have walked the fairways. Though there’s not too many nine-hole layouts in the golf world that can boast a golfer of Woods great stance in the history of the club-and-ball game has teed-up not just once, not twice but three times. It must say something of the JA The Resort Golf Course at Jebel Ali that Woods chose to play this magnificent nine-hole course in Dubai ...

In speaking recently with Jordan Spieth he revealed a wonderful tribute he has in place within his Texas home to the late, great sports star Shane Warne. It was just over seven years ago, Spieth and Warne met for the first time in the pro-am ahead of the 2015 Emirates Australian Open at the Australian Club in Sydney. Spieth was the reigning World No. 1 arriving into Australia’s oldest city as the winner earlier in the year of The Masters and the US Open, along with capturing the Valspar Championship, ...

           Ground Reaction and the Golf Swing – What’s All the Fuss About? Part I of II – Forces and moments; center of pressure and center of mass                                                       by Kiran Kanwar Once upon a time, a gentleman named Isaac Newton, unbeknownst to himself, created a storm in a teacup for golfers around the world. He did that by telling the world (one of three things he told us) that “to every action there is an equal ...

Nassau, Bahamas – Special report by Kiran Kanwar. As we know, a “putter” can either refer to a golf club, or a person making a putt. However, there is a new use for the term – it is the name of a device that helps a putter putt – PerfectPutter. What does this device do? The simpler question is what does it not do! When Ramon Bescansa, a young professional golfer from Spain who has played on the PGA Tour, the web.com Tour and many others,  found himself focusing too much on ...

by Kiran Kanwar, Nassau, Bahamas …  Looking at Justin Rose on the practice range prior to the practice round of the Tiger Woods Foundation’s Hero World Challenge was to see a disaster waiting to happen. All it needed was a look at how very flexed his spine, hips and knees were and how they were being maintained that way even during the early downswing which takes place at great speed. Speed is something which is particularly high for an athletic professional golfer. Here are remarks from ...