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The European Team will honour the memory of the late, great Seve Ballesteros by wearing a navy blue pullover and coloured trousers for Sunday’s Singles showdown against the Americans. While European Team officials would not confirm the choice of  colours it was Scotland’s Paul Lawrie who revealed the choice by Jose Maria Olazabal. “I don’t know for sure but the word is that we’re wearing navy trousers, navy sweaters and white shirts like Seve always wore in the final ...

Tour Miss proudly holds the gleaming Ryder Cup as Europe and the States prepare to do battle later this week for the gleaming gold trophy.

England’s Luke Donald will tee-up in this week’s 39th Ryder Cup and the only player among the two dozen contestants enjoying ‘home ground’ advantage. Donald has made his home in Chicago where he resides with his American-born wife, Diane and young family. But the England golfer enjoyed connections with the Windy City long before that. Donald had spent four years at Northwestern, winning an NCAA title and graduating with a degree in art. His wife was living in Chicago when ...

Rory McIlroy has sparked rumours that he is about to set up home in Florida with his superstar tennis girlfriend Caroline Wozniacki after he put his £2m mansion in Northern Ireland on the market. The double Major Champion bought the five-bedroom Irish house three years ago to share with his former girlfriend Holly Sweeney but they broke up last year ending their six-year relationship, the Daily Express reported. The house, which is set in 14 acres in Moneyreagh, south-east of Belfast, has a golf ...

World No. 1 Rory McIllroy let slip the chance to take delivery of a $US 11.4m FedEx Cup victory package when American Brandt Snedeker easily captured the Tour Championship in Atlanta. Snedeker, 31 seized his second PGA Tour victory this year in winning in front of an appreciative crowd on the East Lake course.  He earned $US 1.4m in winning the Tour Championship and $US 10m in capturing the FedEx Cup. McIlroy went into the Tour Championship having won two of the three prior FedEx Play-Off Series. But ...

Tiger Woods heads to Medinah and his seventh straight Ryder Cup appearance offering point blank advice to the rookies competing in the Windy City. The USA Team boasts four rookies in Keegan Bradley, Jason Duffner, Brandt Snedeker and reigning U.S. Open winner, Webb Simpson. In contrast, the European Team has one rookie in Belguim’s Nicolas Colsaerts. And the 14-time Major winning Woods advise to those five rookies is simple. “Just go out there and win your point, period,” said ...

Francesco Molinari arrives in Chicago tomorrow morning (MON) looking to win over a city once ruled by Italian mobsters Al Capone, Lucky Luciano and Salvadore Marazano. It will be Molinari’s first-ever visit to the city also boasting one of the largest concentrations of Italian Americans in the U.S. In the period 1820 to 1920 more than four million people emigrated from all parts of overcrowded Italy to the U.S. Among them were Gabriele and Teresina Capone who arrived from the Naples area in 1893 ...