Major winners Graeme McDowell, Patrick Reed and Aussie Cameron Smith enjoy star billing in this week’s 62nd edition of the prestigious Hong Kong Open.
Also in the field is Ireland’s Brian O’Donovan.
Of course, McDowell, Reed and Smith need no introduction and with the trio assured to draw huge interest over the four days starting this Thursday at the famed Hong Kong Golf Club course in suburban Fanling.
McDowell’s no stranger to the course, albeit it has been 14-years since ...
Ryder Cup winning hero Robert MacIntyre will accompany fellow Scottish golfing stars Grant Forrest, Connor Syme and Callum Hill heading ‘Down Under’ later this month for the DP World Tour co-sanctioned Australian PGA Championship at Royal Queensland from November 23-26 and the Australian Open the following week at two courses in Sydney.
MacIntyre, 27, was a member of the recent winning European Ryder Cup team that brought down their illustrious USA golfing rivals in Rome, and with the ...
Matteo Manassero has always been one of the more-affable players in golf and now after far too many years in the golfing wilderness what a sheer delight it is to report the 30-year-old Italian is officially returning to the DP World Tour.
It’s been a long four-year absence for a player who turned pro 13-years ago, wasting little time in breaking all sorts of Tour records but after this week’s final round of the season-ending Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final in Majorca, Manassero has easily ...
It’s been seven months since Tiger Woods last competed and that was the bitter disappointment of battling plantar fasciitis that forced him to withdraw after bravely making the halfway cut the Masters. He underwent ankle surgery just 10 days later.
Indeed, Woods has contested just two events this season and the other being seven weeks earlier in sharing 45th place in the Genesis Invitational event he again hosted at the Riviera club in Santa Monica.
However, Woods has hinted he may be closer ...
Media speculation has been correct with super Spaniard Jon Rahm ruling himself out in being a part of next January’s start to the inaugural Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy hosted TGL Series.
Rahm’s name had been removed from the TGL website that prompted then unconfirmed news that Rahm was no longer involved in the Series.
His omission led also to suggestions the reigning Masters champion had jumped the PGA Tour/DP World Tour ship to sign with LIV Golf.
No doubt fearful of any further negative ...
After his gut-wrenching disappointment this time last year, Scotland’s David Drysdale can be proud in teeing-up in this week’s Volvo China Open looking assured of retaining his Asian Tour card for next season.
Drysdale, 48, is again a lone Scot and competing in an event that was played under both European Tour and Asian Tour flags from 2004 to 2019, and Drysdale a regular entrant from 2010 to 2017 inclusive.
The Scottish golfer tees-up this week on the host Hidden Grace resort near Shenzhen ...
Scotland’s Scott Jamieson proudly returns home having secured his Tour card for next season in brilliantly banking a share of third place in the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters in Doha.
Jamieson, 39, arrived in the Qatar capital, and in the final ‘regular’ season event, lying 119th and three places outside of automatically holding onto his 2024 Tour card but after a final round 66, to end tied at 16-under with Spain’s Nacho Elvira, the Scot jumped to 82nd on the money list and comfortably ...