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Double major winning Jon Rahm will look to achieve a feat that no other Spanish-born golfer has managed and that is to end a PGA Tour season as the FedEx Cup champion. Rahm, 28, tees-up on the famed East Lake course having lost his long-running PGA Tour No. 1 position following an indifferent showing at last week’s BMW Championship and will tee-up as No. 4 on the standings. Rahm, along with Tony Finau and Xander Scheffler, have qualified for the Tour Championship in each of the last seven seasons, ...

PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan addressed the media ahead of this week’s season-ending Tour Championship sounding confident a working agreement with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund will be reached thanks to the “sincerity and intensity” of the negotiations. It was just a few months ago Monahan was facing calls to resign while a fortnight ago, just 25 players from the 70 teeing-up in the FedEx St. Jude Championship chose to attend a players meeting Monahan hosted in ...

The Asian Tour has defended this week’s historic hosting the St. Andrews Bay Championship at the Home of Golf in Scotland. The hosting of the $1.5m event right on the doorstep of the famed golfing city has attracted a number of LIV-based players including Masters champion Sergio Garcia and with fellow European Ryder Cup stars in Paul Casey and Bernd Weisberger. The event is also among 10 tournaments featuring in the Asian Tour’s 2023 International Series in assocation with the Saudi Arabian-back ...

Crail Golfing Society member Connor Graham has become the youngest GB & I player to be chosen to play in the Walker Cup. Graham, who turns 17 in late October, is just one of two Scots who will tee-up on September 2nd and 3rd at the Old Course in St. Andrews for the 49th hosting of the biennial competition against the Americans. We understand his selection makes him the youngest GB & I player ever and nearly a month younger than England’s ‘Mr. 59’ Oliver Fisher who was aged ...

What a huge boost for European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald with five of his key Roman warriors inside the top-11 on the FedEx Cup standings post the BMW Championship, and now heading to this week’s PGA Tour season-decider at East Lake in Atlanta. Norwegian superstar golfer Viktor Hovland jumped five places to No.2 on the FedEx Cup points table after shooting a stunning course record 61 to capture the BMW Championship by five shots with a stunning 17-under victory tally on the Olympia Fields ...

Graeme McDowell hinted his delight should Royal Portrush host an Asian Tour event. McDowell, who is contesting this week’s International Series England event on the Asian Tour, grew up in Portrush.  He’s  often spoken off of his long association with the club, so much so also probably knows both the famed Dunluce and Valley courses like the back of his hand. As well, McDowell’s parents reside in Portrush. The golf world saw Royal Portrush in all its glory four years ago when Shane ...

Asian Tour rookie David Drysdale has make it five halfway cuts from seven events this rookie season at this week’s International Series England event at Close House near Newcastle in north-east England The proud Scottish golfer grabbed three birdies in a two-under 69 to be just inside the top-40 in the $US 2m event featuring a number of LIV players including American Jason Kokrak, who shares the lead on five-under with Spaniard David Puig (66) who share the lead on six-under. Drysdale said: “The ...