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Scot David Drysdale and his caddying wife, Vicky were heading home to their Borders abode giving the thumbs-up to this week’s inaugural Asian Tour St. Andrews Bay Championship in St. Andrews. Drysdale made it six pay cheques in succession from seven events in his  rookie Asian Tour season posting scores of 74, 67, 72 and a closing 69 for a six-under-par tally. The effort handed him an eventual share of 45th to be now lying 66th on the Asian Tour Order of Merit and well on track to retain full ...

…. Fairmont Resort, St. Andrews It took an Asian Tour record of 10 extra play-off holes for Spaniad Eugenio Chacarra to capture a first Asian Tour win over Aussie Matt Jones in an historic first Tour event at the Home of Golf. Chacarra and Jones ended regulation play tied at 19-under-par with Jones posting a closing 69 and Chacarra a 67 on the Torrance course at the Fairmont Resort. The duo headed back to the uphill par-5 18th and proceeded to birdie the hole on six occasions before moving ...

  Top Scot Robert MacIntyre heads to this week’s Tour stop in Switzerland quietly confident of climbing to the dizzy heights of automatic Ryder Cup selection. MacIntyre retained his third place on the Rome selection points table following a superb fourth place finish at the Czech Masters. The Oban lefty produced a brilliant final round 66, his third six-under tally of the week to eventually share fourth place on 17-under par in Prague. The result is MacIntyre’s sixth top-10 of the ...

… Fairmont Resort, St. Andrews American Turk Pettit is looking to celebrate a first visit to the Home of Golf with victory in the maiden St. Andrews Bay Championship at St. Andrews Pettit, 24, hit all but one green in regulation in producing a bogey-free eight-under-par 62 to move into a one-shot lead at 17-under-par on the host Torrance designed layout at the Fairmont Resort. Pettit hails from Choudrant, Louisiana is now staring at creating golfing history in being the first player to win ...

Robert MacIntyre superbly regrouped to mend his Ryder Cup automatic qualifying goal with a rousing 66 on day three of the D + D Czech Masters in Prague. MacIntyre was left shattered late on Friday in taking a 16th hole quadruple-bogey ‘7’ but regathered superbly on golf’s ‘moving day’ with a stunning 12th hole eagle and four birdies. The Oban lefty moved into a share of 14th place at 11-under-par and trailing five shots behind the clubhouse leading duo of England’s Matt Wallace (67) ...

In-from Spaniard David Puig brilliantly emerged from an overnight log-jam atop of the board to stamp his class and emerge a three-shot leader heading to the weekend rounds of the Asian Tour’s inaugural St. Andrews Bay Championship. Puig had finished fourth in last week’s maiden Asian Tour stop at Close House in England and now the 21-year-old LIV Golf star in again making his presence felt with rounds of 66 and 64 to show the way to the weekend at the Home of Golf. The La Garriga-born golfer, ...

... Fairmont Resort, St. Andrews  Aussie golfer Scott Hend has never been one to take a backward step in his career and this again is mirrored in his defence of the Asian Tour competing last week in England and now this week in Scotland. Of course, Hend is no stranger to playing golf in the Home of Golf nation that includes two Open Championships at St. Andrews and many Scottish Open and Alfred Dunhill Links showings. However, Hend has taken exception to the DP World Tour and it’s CEO Keith Pelley ...