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  ‘Madness!’ The word the newly-wedded Collin Morikawa singled out in congratulating the double major champ on his recent return to competition, and suggesting if there’s a word to describe what we’ve witnessed in the men’s professional game this past year. “Madness, I would say sums-up the year given everything that has been going on in men’s golf,” he said competing at the recent Hero World Challenge. The men’s pro game in 2022 still celebrated four major winners ...

​ Here’s a golfing fact just three days out from the New Year and that is to advise today, 29th December marks 100 days to tee-off in the 2023 Ma​s​ters. Many of our readers will probably be rugged-up somewhere striving to fight off the winter chill or maybe there’s those lucky enough to be lazing beside the pool and with all not overly concerned with the distant staging of what will be the 87th hosting of the Masters. However, what will be most interesting will be a first look at the ...

In speaking recently with Jordan Spieth he revealed a wonderful tribute he has in place within his Texas home to the late, great sports star Shane Warne. It was just over seven years ago, Spieth and Warne met for the first time in the pro-am ahead of the 2015 Emirates Australian Open at the Australian Club in Sydney. Spieth was the reigning World No. 1 arriving into Australia’s oldest city as the winner earlier in the year of The Masters and the US Open, along with capturing the Valspar Championship, ...

  ​It’s an utter disgrace as I posted on social media that the BBC has now formally snubbed 2022 US Open champion, Matthew Fitzpatrick as a nomination for their ill-named ‘Sports Personality of the Year’ award. Fitzpatrick, 28, brilliantly became the first British golfer since Danny Willett won the 2016 Masters, to triumph at the game’s highest level following his spectacular fairway bunker shot down the final hole at Brookline. It was a month ago that Fitzpatrick had ...

Scot Craig Howie has given his new season a good start with the assurance of two pays cheques from as many events to be lying top-20 at the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open. The Peebles golfer battled the hot but very windy conditions posting a one-under par 71 to move to three-under on the Mont Choisy course on the north-eastern corner of Mauritius. He said: “I’m exhausted after that round.  It was really warm out there and with the wind making it really tough and very difficult. “If you ...

Scotland’s Craig Howie is very conscious of freezing conditions back home in warming to shoot a 70 on the opening day of the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open. Howie grabbed three birdies and heads to day two of the co-sanctioned event trailing eight shots behind Finland’s Sami Valimaki on the Mont Choisy course just 13 miles to the north of the capital, Port Louis. Valimaki, 24, set a new course record in the mid-80s degree Fahrenheit weather, albeit for a short mid-round rain squall, muscling ...

There may be the chance over the Christmas Festive season that if you drop by the newly-opened Old Bonded Warehouse Pub at Bury Quay in Tullamore you may bump into a co-owner in Shane Lowry. We learned last month Lowry had teamed with close friend and pub tycoon Alan Clancy in delving into the pub and restaurant business in his native Offaly. The Open Champion got involved in this first business adventure with the purchase of the pub about a year ago but it has been Clancy who was instrumental in ...