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Scotland’s Scott Jamieson was pleased to emerge bogey-free over the Montgomerie designed host course on day one of the Bahrain Championship. Jamieson, 40, posted a five-under 67 to be just three shots adrift of 22-year-old French rookie Tom Vaillant. Vaillant, who was runner-up in last year’s Challenge Tour final, birdied his closing two holes in a score of an eight-under 64 and in only his fifth full member DP World Tour event. Jamieson finds himself in a five-way share of eighth place ...

No sooner did we learn news of the PGA Tour and the Strategic Sports Group (SSG) have reached an historic agreement that will see SSG, a consortium of investors and sports franchise owners, infusing up to $3 billion into the Tour and the m is deal is being questioned by three top DP World Tour members. The agreement will result in the launch of PGA Tour Enterprises, a commercial venture under the PGA Tour’s control. Players will have equity in the new company, a first also in the PGA Tour’s ...

Tiger Woods and his fellow PGA Tour board members have unanimously backed a massive $3 billion investmentPGA Tour Enterprise deal with Strategic Sports Group venture PGA Tour Enterprises. The consortium – led by Fenway Sports Group and also including New York Mets owner Steve Cohen’s Cohen Private Ventures, Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank, and former Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Marc Lasry – is preparing to inject the money into PGA Tour Enterprises which will increase the for-profit ...

Scotland’s Stephen Gallacher will have extra strong memories in teeing-up in this week’s inagurual Bahrain Championship. The DP World Tour was last in the Middle East Island kingdom early in 2011 when Gallacher brilliantaly finished just two shots behind England’s Paul Casey in the first hosting of the Volvo Champions event. However growing unrest in the region led to the Bahrain F1 Grand Prix, and set to he held some five weeks following the Volvo hosted event, to being cancelled while ...

Dane Thorbjørn Olesen has secured not only his eighth DP World Tour but he’s done so with the biggest victory margin of his career in capturing the Ras Al Khaimah Championship by six shots on the stunning host Al Hamra Golf Club course. Olesen, 34, fought back from a birdie, double-bogey start to the last day to then birdie the third, eagle the par-5 eighth hole ahead of birdies at the 10th, 14th and at the last in a round of 67 for a 27-under tally. It’s been 12 -years since the Dane ...

Magnifique Matthieu Pavon brilliantly captured the Farmers Insurance Open to become the first French-born golfer to win on the PGA Tour proper with his one shot success over the Torrey Pines course. Pavon, 31, incredibly birdied the last in a round of 69 to win with a 13-under and in the process earn the Touluese-born golfer a whopping $1.5m first prize cheque, a full Tour exemption to the end of 2016 while a more immediate reward for Pavon is a maiden Masters invitation. Pavon headed into the final ...

Scot David Law was singing the praise of his coach after being assured of playing all four rounds of the Ras Al Khamiah Championship in the UAE. Law, 32, capped his round with an eagle ‘3’ at the eighth and then birdied his closing two holes in a second round 69 for a seven-under tally on the host Al Harma course located around an hour north of Dubai. Dane Rasmus Hojgaard, whose twin brother Nicolai won the inagural Ras Al Khamiah event in 2022, posted a 64 to share the lead at 14-under with ...