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Past champ Shane Lowry has confirmed he will tee-up in next month’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and the opening event of the 2021 Race to Dubai schedule. Lowry’s 2019 victory on the National course in Abu Dhabi was the harbinger five months later when the Irishman stormed to a six-shot success in the 148th Open Championship at Royal Portrush. “Winning in Abu Dhabi in 2019 started the best year of my career,” said Lowry. “So, again looking forward to starting my 2021 season @ADGolfChamps ...

Lee Westwood has capped a superb season in being voted 2020 European Tour ‘Golfer of the Year’. It is a fourth occasion in the now 47-year old’s career Westwood has won the award. A committee of seven, including myself, were afforded the invitation to join the voting committee and with all but one voting for Westwood. Westwood commenced the 2020 Race to Dubai season winning the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and ended a very ‘different’ year some 140 klms north in finishing ...

Young Charlie Woods again stole the shot in brilliantly upstaging his 15-time Major-winning father for a second time as father-and-son sharing seventh place at the PNC Championship in Orlando. The 11-year-old Tiger cub was competing in a first 18-hole ‘public’ tournament and in a first PGA Tour sanctioned event on the Ritz Carlton layout. And didn’t the son of the 82-time PGA Tour winning Woods impress not only swinging like dad but all the time producing the trademark Tiger fist pumps. Team ...

Charlie Woods will have a story to tell his school friends after becoming maybe the youngest player to snatch an eagle in official PGA Tour recognised competition on day one of the PNC Championship in Orlando. The 11-year-old son of 15-time major winning Tiger Woods blasted out a 175-yard second shot, at the par-5 third hole to just four-feet and calmly rolled-in the putt on the Ritz Carlton course. And there was none happier than his soon-to-be 45-year-old father with Woods rushing-up to hug his ...

Great news for the European Tour with Rory McIlroy looking likely to be kick-starting 2021 and his 14th full season in the pro ranks teeing-up at the 2021 Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship in the UAE capital. McIlroy has not contested the event since 2018 and confirmation of his teeing-up in the UAE capital comes after the 2020 European Tour season ended last weekend with McIlroy not teeing-up on European Tour soil for a first time since turning professional at the end of 2007. The four-time major winner ...

It has been just a handful of years since Crail Golfing Society proudly became the oldest club in Scotland to appoint its first female captain, and now golf’s seventh oldest club has appointed one of the Home of Golf nation’s youngest Captains. Max Baillie, at 27-years of age, is believed to be one of the youngest currently acting in the role as Captain in some 550 clubs under the Scottish Golf umbrella. Historically, Max is the youngest to accept the Crail captaincy reins since the Society’s ...

Padraig Harrington could be staring captaining a European Team later next year sporting a 24-year age difference between his oldest and youngest in his Whistling Straits side. That’s if triple European Tour No. 1 Lee Westwood and Norwegian sensation, Vicktor Hovland qualify for Harrington’s 2021 side. Qualifying has been ‘frozen’ since early July and resumes on the 1st January, 2021. And when it does, you can be assured both Westwood and Hovland will be rubbing shoulders for Harrington’s ...