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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 ...

If Europe is going to retain the Ryder Cup they are going to have to do it without the support of partners. Just eight of the dozen Europeans will arrive in Medinah tomorrow with a wife or partner. Heading those flying solo to Chicago will be World No. 1 Rory McIlroy. McIlroy’s girlfriend, Caroline Wozinacki will be competing in the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Japan and coming off her victory in the Korean Open. And Wozinacki is probably delighted she has a tournament to contest as the Dane would ...

The traditional driving-in ceremony for the new Captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews took place on the first tee of the Old Course today (Friday). Pierre Bechmann began his year in office with a drive at precisely 8am as a cannon fired alongside the tee. A large crowd gathered to witness the ceremony and saw Mr Bechmann hit a long drive down the middle of the fairway running to around 30 yards short of the Swilcan Burn. Mr Bechmann becomes the first Captain of The Royal and Ancient ...

Tiger Woods and England’s Justin Rose bloomed on day one of the PGA Tour Championship shooting four under par 68s as World No. 1 Rory McIlroy trailed three shots back in signing for a 71. Woods easily scored a points win over McIlroy while Woods also wound up finishing the tournament ahead of McIlroy in each of the first 10 PGA Tour events in which Woods and McIlroy both played. Woods also has posted a lower first-round score (excluding events from which Woods withdrew). In the last two ...

European Ryder Cup captain, Jose Maria Olazabal heads the exodus of hopefuly victorious team members set not to tee-up in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. The only Medinah stars returning to the Home of Golf for the $US5m event will be inaugural champion, Paul Lawrie, 2003 winner Lee Westwood, 2010 champ Martin Kaymer and Sweden’s Peter Hanson. And European Tem captain, Jose Maria Olazabal is a late withdrawal citing the short turnaround time between the Ryder Cup and one of the richest ...