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Welsh golfer Stephen Dodd has drawn disappointment in putting his 1989 Amateur Championship medal up for auction. Dodd has assigned Graham Budd Auctioneers to auction the 9 ct gold medal he won at Royal Birkdale with an asking price of £2,500 to £3,500. The Welshman defeated England’s Craig Cassells 5 & 3 in the final. Since turning pro in 1990, the now 54-year old Dodd has won 17 times in his pro career including three wins on the European Tour. Dodd’s biggest win was his Irish Open ...

Jonathan Caldwell is staring at a Tour best finish heading to the final round of the Scottish Championship at the Fairmont Resort near St.Andrews. The Clandeboye golfer posted a third round, bogey-free four-under par 68 to move into a share of fifth place at 12-under par on the Torrance course. Caldwell, 36 heads to the last day of the Euro 1m event trailing six shots behind England’s Matt Wallace, who added a 66 to move three shots clear of the Scottish field at 18-under. England’s Garrick Porteous, ...

In one of his frankest disclosures for some time Padraig Harrington has revealed his obsession to keep-up with a younger generation of competitors. The current World No. 342 grabbed four birdies and dropped one shot to be sharing fifth place but only three shots behind England’s Matt Wallace (67) and Spain’s Adrian Otaegui (70) who head the field by a stroke at 11-under par. Wallace, and with Belfast bagman Dave McNeilly calling the shots, managed six birdies and dropped just one shot for ...

For Padraig Harrington there’s something about playing well in Scotland in October. Maybe it’s been rugged-up under four layers battling the Scottish autumn elements. In fact, Harrington captured two of his 15 European Tour victories in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship Only last fortnight, he finished T9th in the ASI Scottish Open and now after just two rounds of the inaugural Scottish Championship he’s produced his lowest opening 36 holes on the European since a year ago while competing ...

Regarded as the Mediterranean’s prime, sustainable destination, Costa Navarino is celebrating a new international golf award after the clubhouse on its acclaimed Bay Course was voted ‘Clubhouse of the Year 2020’ by Golf Inc. magazine. The striking earth-sheltered building, which has received global attention after being unveiled last summer, took first place in the ‘public clubhouse’ category of the prestigious annual awards. The uniquely designed Bay Course clubhouse covers an area of ...

The PGA of Australia has announced the cancellation of the ‘Big Three’ in Australian golf during to the continuing global coronavirus pandemic – the Australian Open, the c0-sanctioned Australian PGA and the Women’s Australian Open. The Australian Open and Australian PGA Championship – the feature events on the PGA Tour of Australasia – were originally set to take place late November and early December and to be played at Melbourne’s Kingston Heath and Brisbane’s Royal ...

It’s been 193 days since the Masters was due to take place last April but now only 27 days till the world’s best golfers finally get to return to Augusta National. And to coincide with the 12th November restart of the 84th Masters the club has released a special video this week to help get patrons excited for a first-ever staging of the Masters in November. Coming in November. #themasters pic.twitter.com/SvVqlimLlD — The Masters (@TheMasters) October 15, 2020 The superb one minute and 17 ...