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Scotland’s Martin Laird is primed to land a second Shriners Hospital for Children victory jackpot in maintaining a share of the lead heading to the final round of the $7m event on the TPC Summelin course in Las Vegas. Laird, 37 posted a third round six-under par 65 to join American Patrick Cantlay (65) atop of the board at 20-under par and two shots clear of four players tied in third place on 18-under par. Reigning US Open champion, Bryson DeChambeau, and who led the event on day one with ...

Reigning US Open champion Bryson DeChambeau has politely brushed aside Matthew Fitzpatrick’s fiery criticism of the American’s controversial new approach to the game, an approach that has everyone involved in golf talking. Fitzpatrick was probably still hot under the collar after doubling the last hole of his second round of the BMW PGA that would have handed him a two-shot lead in the Tour’s flagship event. Instead the Englishman posted a round of 65 to be tied at the top with ...

Scotland’s Martin Laird was soaring after eagling his last hole to grad an early share of the clubhouse lead with an eight-under par 63 on day two of the Shriners Hospital for Children Open in Las Vegas Laird, 37 hit a 237-yard second shot to just three-feet at the par-5 ninth hole and the last of his round for a 14-under par tally on the TPC Summerlin course. And Laird is no stranger to going low in the gambling capital of the world having won the event in 2009, and his first of three PGA ...

Scotland’s Craig Forrest continues to upstage many of Europe’s golfing big guns moving to just four shots from the front heading the weekend rounds of the BMW PGA at Wentworth. Forrest, 27 added a second round 67 to his opening 69 and moved to eight-under par on his debut in the Tour’s £Stg 6m flagship event. The Craigielaw golfer grabbed six birdies and dropped just one shot on the famed ‘Burma Road’ course to end the day sharing sixth place. Reigning Open champ, Shane Lowry continues ...

Shane Lowry continues to muscle his way closer to a maiden BMW PGA Championship victory in posting a brilliant second round seven-under par 65 at Wentworth. Lowry delighted in heading to lunch with the then clubhouse lead on 12-under par following Thursday’s opening 67. England’s Matthew Fitzpatrick looked on target to at least match the West Course record in being nine-under par with a hole to play but take a double-bogey at his closing hole, and also in a round of 65. Frenchman Victor Perez, ...

Scotland’s Grant Forrest brilliantly tamed the famed ‘Burma Road’ course on debut to post a three-under par 69 on the opening day of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. Forrest birdied the three par-5s in a haul of five birdies and only two bogeys to be just outside the top-10 in the STG 5.42m event on the West Course at Tour HQ in Wentworth. The trio of England’s Tyrrell Hatton, South African Justin Harding and Spain’s Adri Aranaus head the field taking Route 66 around the ...

For a second time in some 20-years Alister MacKenzie will be turning in his grave with talk again of toughening Augusta National. MacKenzie designed the course in the early 1930s and for nearly 70 years the world’s best golfers peacefully competed without hardly any fuss at all when it came to the golf course. And then in the late 1990s Tiger Woods came along and demonstrated a newer muscle-bound way to play the Georgia golfing gem. It led to calls of the need to ‘Tiger-Proof’ Augusta but ...