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Calum Hill brilliantly ignited hopes of not only a second Tour title this season but an automatic spot into next month’s Open Championship heading into the final round of the Open D’Italia. Hill, 30, again teamed superbly with new caddy Stuart Davidson posting a super bogey-free six-under 64 in very hot, blustery conditions on the host Argentario GC, Monte Argentario course in Tuscany. Indeed, temperatures were so hot officials allowed players to wear shorts. Hill’s effort handed him a share ...

Scot Calum Hill is full of praise for new caddy and fellow Stuart Davidson after being assured of playing all four rounds of the 82nd hosting Open D’Italia in Tuscany. Hill toughed out the tight, winding and also windswept layout posting scores of 67 and 71 to be just inside the top-30 at two-under on the Argentario host course. Hill, 30, heads into the weekend round six shots behind the Spaniard who posted a bogey-free 65 to lead the event by a shot, and with the leading two players not otherwise ...

Ryder Cup stars past and present will be teeing-up in next week’s BMW Intertnational Open in Munich. The 36th hosting of the prestigious DP World Tour event has again attracted current European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald who last competed in the event two years ago as the 2023 European captain and with Donald sharing 47th place on the host Golfclub München Eichenried course. Donald will be teeing-up again via his Category 5 exemption off the ‘All Time Money List’. RYDER CUP ...

Rory McIlroy returns to competition this week at the 2025 Travelers and while arriving back to Cromwell, Connecticut where he first competed in 2017 there is still the baggage of recent controversy. Though first things first as in speaking with the assembled TPC Rivert Highlands media he develved into his method of decompression after last Sunday’s US Open final round where he posted a closing 67 for an eventual share of 19th place at seven-over at Oakmont. “I wouldn’t say that’s ...

It may come as a surprise announcement but PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan is sticking to his work and has advised he will step down next year as head of the PGA Tour next year after a decade in the top role. In a statement released and Monohan will be replaced by top NFL executive Brian Rolapp in a new role as CEO. Rolapp, the Chief Media and Business Officer for the NFL and seen as a potential successor to a Commissioner Roger Goodell, was introduced Tuesday as CEO, a position that had never ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary since Aberdeen-born Scot Willie MacFarlane defeated legendary American amateur Bobby Jones in a play-off to win the 1925 US Open championship at the Worcester Club in Massachuetts. Later day Oban-born Robert MacIntyre will look to duplicate MacFarlane’s achievement some 388 miles away at the Oakmont club in Pennsylvania. MacIntyre heads to the final round of the year’s third men’s major sharing ninth place at three-over par and seven adrift ...

Shane Lowry had shown his golfing disgust on day one of this year’s US Open by hurling an on-course microphone but it seems Oakmont got its own back on the Irishman on day two of the year’s third men’s major. Already five-over for his second round and 13-over in total and headed for the weekend off Lowry walked onto the 14th green to mark his ball for a putt, only he forgot to put down a coin and just picked it up. Frozen in disbelief for a second or two, Lowry turns to caddie ...