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Top-ranked Scot Robert MacIntyre superbly boosted his Mastesr aspirations producing a brilliant rousing final round, ending just three shots of victory in the Players Championship at Ponte Vedra in Florida. MacIntyre headed into the final day of the PGA Tour’s flagship wearing a very eye-catching bright orange-like Nike shirt lying five shots off the lead, superbly save the best for the final round by muscling his way to within just one shot of the lead with only five holes to play. After picking-up ...

Top ranked Scot Robert MacIntyre has confirmed his appearance in next week’s $9.1m Valspar Championship at Palm Harbor near Naples on the Florida west coast. MacIntyre had been speaking with this journalist last week but he was unsure if he would contest the event on the famed Copperhead course and as part of his pre-Masters preparations. However when the PGA Tour released deteails of the full Valspar field at 5pm Friday (local time Florida), the Oban lefties name appeared on the list of contestants. EXCLUSIVE ...

Second-Round Notes – Friday, March 13, 2026 The weather: Partly cloudy and breezy. High of 71. Wind NE at 8-14 mph. 36-hole cut: 73 professionals at 2-over 146 from a field of 123 professionals. Second-Round Leaderboard Pos. Player R1 R2 Total 1 Ludvig Åberg 69 63 132 (-12) 2 Xander Schauffele 69 65 134 (-10) 3 Cameron Young 68 67 135 (-9) T4 Corey Conners 69 67 136 (-8) T4 Justin Thomas 68 68 136 (-8)           CAN LUDWIG NOW JOIN HENRIK ? … As ...

In a very first major public address, new PGA Tour chief Brian Rolapp earlier today unveiled a series of plans to improve the Tour, including doubling the number of signature events to 16, adding in the four existing majors and designate a secondary wave of — Tier II — events building to signature tournaments. This was one of six initiatives Rolapp revealed and indicating the ideal number of tournaments from late January to early September would be 21 to 26. The 53-year-old Rolapp took-up ...

PGA Tour Commissioner Brian Rolapp has been in the role for less than a year though in addressing the media ahead of this week’s Players Championship he got it right by declaring: “It’s not for the PGA Tour to decide whether or not the tournament should be a ranked a major“. It is both a continuing and also an annoying point of discussion whether or not the Players Championship should be a major. The golfing purists will have no talk of The Players being designated a fifth major, ...

Crail Golfing Society is golf’s seventh oldest club and it is proud to announce work on the Practice and Performance Hub has picked-up pace with the site now considerably drier, and construction firm Algo have been able to accelerate activity to catch up for the delays caused by the heavy rain. Algo’s construction team worked late into the evening to ensure the full concrete pour was finished in a single continuous operation. Building Control has since carried out its first inspection and ...

Justin Rose could not have been more to point in calling on Jon Rahm to pay the fines imposed upon him by DP World Tour to ensure his place in next year’s European Ryder Cup team. As being reported by GolfByTourMiss and by evident in our very last post, Rahm is in bitter disagreement with the Tour over sanctions being imposed upon him and this despite seven other LIV Golf players having cordially agreeing to the terms. Rose, who will be very much in contention to captain the 2029 European Team, ...