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Shane Lowry still celebrated despite missing out on a £10,000 windfall as an ace during the second round of the Sky Sports British Masters at Walton Heath. Lowry used an 8-iron in finding the bottom of the cup at the par-3 fifth hole the Irish golfer was playing as his 14th. It was the second ace of the tournament after England’s Eddie Pepperell holed-out at the par-3 ninth hole a day earlier. Pepperell’s ace was not only valuable to his chances of winning for a second time this season, but ...

It is now doubly official – Padraig Harrington will captain Europe into the 2020 Ryder Cup and with every likelihood Lee Westwood with captain Europe in 2022. This website has been reporting for the past week Harrington will be handed the captaincy early in December. We spoke last week to Paul McGinley, and one of five who will vote in early December to choose the 2020 European Team captain but with McGinley hinting the only stumbling block could be whether or not Westwood will throw his cap ...

Ryder Cup winning hero, Francesco Molinari revealed he couldn’t even tie-up his shoelaces the day after helping steer Europe to victory in Versailles. Now the quietly-spoken Open Champion is looking to tie-up a first Race to Dubai No. 1 title. Molinari became the first European Team player to win all five matches and this coming after being the first Italian-born golfer to win a Major in capturing the 147th Open Championship. The London-based Molinari tees-up in this week’s British Masters ...

Defending champion Paul Dunne could bloom this week in playing alongside Justin Rose for the opening two rounds of the Sky Sports British Masters. Rose is playing host to the event being staged on the famed Walton Heath course that is a former European Open hot venue and since 2005 has hosted a U.S. Open qualifier. Rose is returning to competition for a first occasion since playing his part in Europe’s stunning seven-point Ryder Cup success and in his first ‘regular’ tournament since capturing ...

USA Ryder Cup captain, Jim Furyk indicated his reasons for not playing Tiger Woods on day two of last fortnight’s Ryder Cup in France. After ending a more than five-year victory drought at the Tour Championship, Woods played just three matches over the three days and lost all three. It was a big disappointment for the visiting USA Team no doubt looking to see Woods produce the form that took him to victory on the East Lake course. But it became apparent in teaming in the opening session on ...

Padraig Harrington will celebrate Christmas with the gift-wrapped 2020 European Team captaincy. That is how it is shaping-up in the absence of any other Whistling Straits contender says Paul McGinley. The past three European Team captains in McGinley, Darren Clarke and victorious Versailles Thomas Bjorn along with the European Tour CEO, Keith Pelley and a representative of the Tournament Players Committee will meet early in December to consider the nominees. At this stage, there is just one Whistling ...

So who is telling the truth? Brooks Koepka attended the Alfred Dunhill Links media centre at St. Andrews last week and is on record as saying there was no altercation between he and USA Ryder Cup team-mate Dustin Johnson. Here is Koepka’s response to a question put to him by The Scotsman’s Martin Dempster. “This Dustin thing, I don’t get. There’s no fight. There’s no argument. He’s one of my best friends. I mean, we talked on the phone on Monday — ...