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Thieves who broke into the United States Golf Association (USGA) museum will have little chance of hocking the stolen U.S. Amateur trophy. US Amateur trophy The USGA issued the following statement regarding an overnight burglary,  in which two historical artifacts were stolen. The artifacts include the U.S. Amateur trophy, which was created in 1926 and retired in 1992, and a replica of Ben Hogan’s 1953 Hickok Belt award, which the USGA acquired from the Hogan estate in 1998 and has displayed ...

Newly-married Darren Clarke has had little to celebrate so much so the current Open Champion has all but ruled out returning later this year to the Ryder Cup. Clarke is one of eight ‘seeds’ in today’s commencing Volvo World Match-Play Championship but won’t play a first match to tomorrow (FRI) when he faces Robert Rock. Time looks to be running out for Darren Clarke to qualify for the Ryder Cup. (Photo – Eoin Clarke/www.golffile.ie) Rock rolled more-fancied rival Tiger Woods earlier ...

The election of a new Government in France will have no impact on the staging of the 2018 Ryder Cup at the Le Golf National course near Versailles. Former French President, Nicolas Sarkozy had given strong state support backing the bid which he stated was a priority for France along with securing  Euro 2016, and a bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympics and in the wake of the crushing loss to London to host the 2012 Summer Olympics. But with his outing and the swearing in of Francois Hollande as ...

The European Tour fears losing a third event from this year’s schedule when it meets with the Czech Open course owner today in London. Keith Waters, Director of International Policy with the European Tour, are meeting with Stanislav Pros, owner of the Prosper Golf Resort at Celadna. The Czech Open was set to be contested from August 16 – 19 but is on the 2012 Race to Dubai schedule as ‘TBC’. Already this year, the Iberdrola Open in Majorca has been cancelled while the Castellon Masters, ...

Fresh from their dramatic title victory in the English Premier League with Manchester City, footballers Gareth Barry and James Milner were celebrating again after finding out about their call-ups to the England squad during the Pro-Am at the Volvo World Match Play Championship in Spain. The pair were playing with compatriot Robert Rock, a two-time European Tour champion, at Finca Cortesin when they received a text from the English FA informing them of their selection by Roy Hodgson in England’s ...

The plane carrying American Brandt Snedeker and his caddy to Spain, and this week’s Volvo World Match-Play Championship, had to make an emergency landing in The Azores when a passenger on his flight suffered a heart attack. Snedeker was aboard a Iberia Airlines flight heading from Miami and bound for Madrid when the drama occurred some 39,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean. There was not other option for the pilot to seek permission to land at The Azores from where the passenger was rushed ...

Australia’s John Senden is quietly confident of causing the biggest upset on the opening day of the Volvo World Match-Play Championship and that is the scalp of defending champion, Ian Poulter. Senden is making his first appearance in the elite event being played for a last time on the Finca Cortesin course on Spain’s Costa del Sol. In contrast, Poulter last year bundled out Francesco Molinari, squared his match against Paul Lawrie and then defeated Lee Westwood.  He then beat Molinari ...