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Victorious Ryder Cup captain Thomas Bjorn has put real Whistling Straits selection pressure on Europe’s top ‘rookies’, including the likes of leading Scot Robert MacIntyre. The highest-ranked four players off the ‘European’ points list, then the leading five from the ‘world’ ranking points, will automatically be on Padraig Harrington’s Whistling Straits side, and with Harrington choosing three ‘wildcard’ picks. MacIntyre is currently lying 10th on the ‘European’ ...

Six-time Major winner Nick Faldo has put his money on Scotland’s Russell Knox to secure a third PGA Tour success with victory at the AT & T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Knox, 35 played a flawless ‘moving day’ round picking-up three shots to move to 11-under and into a fiveway share of second place at 11-under par along with Pacific Ocean shoreline. Three-time major winning Jordan Spieth takes a one-shot in the last day having signed for a round of 71 to move to 13-under par. Spieth ...

European Ryder Cup captain Padraig Harrington is quietly-confident of returning to competition at next week’s Genesis Invitational near Santa Monica. Harrington is presently quarantining at the stunning The Lodge Hotel at Pebble Beach after testing positive to COVID-19 last Monday ahead of this week’s AT & T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. The Dubliners 10-day self-isolation period, and adhering to PGA rules and protocols, will end on Wednesday and on the eve of next week’s whopping Euro 7.7m event ...

Russell Knox was laughing when admitting he hit the worst opening tee-shot of his career to then sensationally muscle his way straight into contention early on day one of the AT & T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Knox grabbed an eagle and five birdies in taking ‘Route 66’ for a six-under par-66 on the famed US Open host course laid-out along the Pacific Ocean shoreline. The effort is the Scot’s third lowest round in 11 events in the 2020/21 wraparound scheduled since a 63 on day one his first ...

Russell Knox is quietly confident he’ll have the numbers to topple ‘superstar’ opponent Rory McIlroy and be elected the first non-American born Chairman of the PGA Tour’s ‘Players Advisory Committee’. Knox has thrown his cap into the ring along with McIlroy and American Kevin Streelman and with the vote among the Tour’s rank-and-file closing Thursday (11th February). The Players Advisory Committee (PAC) is the European Tour equivalent of the ‘Tournament Players Committee’ and answers ...

The game of golf is supposedly a game of skill where you tee-up and then try to take as least strokes as possible to find the bottom of hole. That’s the basic principle of the ancient club-and-ball game. At the highest form of the game, and that is on the major tour’s of the world, it is a game of millimetres where a missed putt can cost a golf a major championship trophy or a place in a Ryder Cup, Presidents Cup or Solheim Cup team. The professional player relies on the input of his or her caddy ...

Europe’s Ryder Cup captain is the latest to fail a COVID-19 test and being ruled out of this week’s PGA AT & T Pebble Beach Championship In California. Harrington had been competing in last week’s Phoenix Open but sat out the weekend rounds after missing the cut and in his first showing on the TPC Scottsdale course in five years. Then in travelling to the US West Coast for this week’s $7.3m PGA Tour event along the shores of the Pacific Ocean, the 49-year-old Irishman ...