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Legendary Irish golfer Christy O’Connor Junior believes it will be a ‘disgrace’ and a demonstration of ‘anti-Irishness’ if Paul McGinley is not appointed Captain of the 2014 European Ryder Cup team. This is the subject of an article written by our good friend and renowned golf writer, Charlie Mulqueen appearing in today’s (WED) edition of the Irish Examiner. Here is Charlie’s piece in the newsaper. Christy O’Connor, who will always be remembered for the ...

Padraig Harrington tees up in this week’s Barclays Singapore Open determined to cash-in on Rory McIlroy’s appearance in the tiny island nation. Harrington is returning to competition for a first time since winning last month’s PGA Grand Slam of Golf in Bermuda. He then narrowly avoided being stuck in the States due to Hurricane Sandy before now making his out to south-east Asia. But in his absence on the European Tour, Harrington’s seen Rory McIlroy go further ahead as Number One on the ...

Triple Major winning Padraig Harrington had spent some 20 minutes entertaining the predominantly Singapore based media at a pre-Barclays Singapore Open press conference. The unshaven Dubliner touched on a range a subjects from his joy in capturing last month’s PGA Grand Slam of Golf, how he’s still disappointing in losing the 2008 tournament to Jeev Milka Singh and recollections, as an 18-year old, of playing in an amateur event at Dundlalk when declared he’s chocked so bad. However ...

Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano has disappointed organisers with a decision not to defend this week’s Barclays Singapore Open. But then the Spaniard has been spotted at the Sentosa Resort with a billboard size photograph of him taking pride of place along with other former champions (see photograph below) The same scenario applies next week in Hong Kong and with the co-sanctioned event struggling a number of leading Europeans, including Fernandez-Castano, are teeing-up in the Japan Tour’s ...

England’s Simon Khan has withdrawn from the second stage of PGA Tour qualifying later this month. Khan is exempt into second stage but revealed to www.golfbytourmiss.com that intends remaining loyal to the European Tour and focussing on improving his current 443rd World Ranking. It was just two years ago the now 40-year old Englishman tamed the famed ‘Burma Road’ course to capture the Tour’s flagship event – the BMW PGA Championship. He became exempt into the second ...

Padraig Harrington could not have written a better headline had he tried – ‘No Sweat As Harrington Captures Barclays Singapore Open’. Harrington had been talking about the fact he rarely sweats and even with the sauna-like conditions we’re again set to experience this week in Singapore, the Dublin-born Harrington declared he’ll remain ice cool. “The heat and humidity has never bothered me one bit,” said Harrington. “It is a big advantage for me coming to play here in the extreme heat ...

The first Tuesday in November every year for any Australian is special and that was very much the scenario for the handfull present here in Singapore for this week’s Barclays Singapore Open. Today is Melbourne Cup day! And after a little running around and surfing the net I managed to join three other Aussies here at the Sentosa Resort course to watch live coverage of the 152nd running of a ‘Race that stops a nation’. In this case, it was race that stopped a practice session ahead ...