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…. Fairmont Resort, St. Andrews The opening round of the inaugural Asian Tour’s St. Andrews Championship sees a log-jam of six players sharing the lead in the event being staged at the Fairmont Resort on the outskirts of the Home of Golf. Six players – Australia’s Andrew Dodt, the Indian duo of Aniban Lahiri and Veer Ahlahat, Chilean Mito Pereira, Spain’s in-form David Puig and South African Jaco Ahlers – each posted six-under 66s in bright and slightly breezy ...

Top Scot Robert MacIntyre produced a timely return to form to also keep alive his Ryder Cup selection hopes with a rousing 66 on the opening day of the Czech Masters. MacIntyre posted a bogey-free round to be sharing fourth place and just three shots adrift of Finland’s Sami Valimaki who heads the field with a sizzling nine-under 63 on the Albatross Resort course in Prague. The Oban lefty capped his round in very hot conditions with birdies at his opening two holes and also at his closing pair ...

…. Fairmont Resort, St. Andrews It was a double historic first earlier today not only for the Asian Tour but also for Scotland’s own John Paterson. Today marked the first occasion an Asian Tour event has been held in the Home of Golf nation and on the outskirts of St. Andrews, and also on the same day as the 70th birthday of Sam Torrance fellow Scottish-born Paterson was given the honour of hitting the opening tee shot at 6.50m on the Torrance designed course at the Fairmont Resert at ...

David Drysdale is both pinching himself he’s teeing-up in an Asian Tour event in St. Andrews though the proud Scot also is bitterly disappointed with the lack of response from DP World Tour event organisers. Drysdale, 48, is among eight Scots competing in the inaugural St. Andrews Bay Championship being staged at the Fairmont Resort on the outskirts of the Home of Golf. The Borders golfer is no stranger to this week’s host Torrance course having played the past two years in the DP Tour World ...

… Fairmont Resort, St. Andrews Paul Casey has won 21 times in around a dozen different countries in his professional career. Casey also enjoyed a dozen top-10s in the major while he also played in three of five victorious European Ryder Cup sides and a member of four of five of GB & I Seve Trophy teams. As well, Casey spent some 800 weeks among the world’s top-50, including a career high of No. 3 in 2009. And it really came as no surprise for a player who captured a maiden Tour among ...

.... Fairmont Resort, St. Andrews Sergio Garcia will this week strive to achieve something he’s not been able to do in his very illustrious career and that is to win a professional event on Scottish soil. Garcia announced himself to the golf world in capturing the 1998 British Amateur at Muirfield and then nine years later went do close to winning golf’s oldest major losing out in a play-off to Padraig Harrington at the 2007 Open Championship at Carnoustie. This week the now 43-year-old ...

It’s probably happened to the majority of golfers who choose to travel to golf destinations, and that is your luggage arrives but not your golf clubs. Of course, it’s a more of a concern for a professional golfer as the golf clubs at their tools of trade. Little wonder, 21-tournament winning Paul Casey pulled no punches in slamming British Airways when his golf clubs on board his flight from Arizona via London to Scotland missed the short flight from London to Edinburgh, ahead of this ...