Fleetwood Missing The ‘Odd Dog’ On The Golf Course In These COVID-19 Times.

Tommy Fleetwood’s love of dogs is well known. In capturing a maiden European Tour event in 2013 Fleetwood singled out his ailing dog, Maisie after he birdied the first extra play-off hole to claim a maiden Tour victory in the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles. Now ahead of teeing-up in this week’s Aberdeen Standand Investments Scottish Open the now former European No. 1 and hero at the 2018 Ryder Cup has spoken of continuing to tee-up since the return to golf without spectators ...

MacIntyre Admits ‘Most Difficult Decision In His Life’ Splitting With Caddy.

Top world ranked Scot Robert MacIntyre admits it was the ‘most difficult decision’ in his life to  have to split with Irish-born caddy, Greg Milne. MacIntyre and Milne had been together since their days together on the secondary Challenge and then burst onto the main Tour a year ago with the Scot beoming ‘2019 European Tour Rookie of the Year’. However, and when a player is not performing, the first to go is usually the caddy and with MacIntyre and the Waterford-born Milne ...

Wiesberger Proud Of His Global Achievements Heading To Scottish Open Defence

Defendind Aberdeen Standard Investments Scottish Open champion, Brend Wiesberger has 11 times in his pro career and seven of those have been in different countries. Wiesberger, who turns 38 on 8th October, was rugged-up under four layers on the event of the Scottish event and vastly different to the glorious conditions that greeted competitors in July last year to the Renaissance course to the east of Edinburgh. The very affable Austrian won with an impressive 22-under par tally in a play-off over ...

McIlroy Warming-Up For A Grand Slam ‘Take Six’ Contesting CJ Cup & ZoZo

Rory McIlroy confirmed he will warm-up for ‘Take Six’ at a Career Grand Slam by tackling the PGA Tour’s CJ Cup and ZOZO Championship next month ahead of tackling the Masters. The back-to-back events have been moved from South Korea and Japan to Las Vegas and L.A. respectively due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic and will be now held in the last two weeks of October. The rescheduled Masters will tee-off from the 12th to 15th November. “I’m looking forward to playing in The CJ Cup at Shadow ...

Here’s Wishing ‘Double D’ Finds That Pot Of Gold At This Week’s ASI Scottish Open

David Drysdale’s ‘golden rainbow’ wish would be if he were to capture a long-awaited maiden Tour title at this week’s Aberdeen Standard Investment Scottish Open at the Renaissance club in East Lothian. It’s been 16-years years and now 504 European Tour events since the now 44-year old Drysdale made his debut on the European contesting the 1999 Scottish PGA Championship and a month after Paul Lawrie had captured The Open. ‘Double D’, as he affectionately called, then teed-up ...

How Many Different Countries Have You Played Golf ? – I Count 47 & Looking To Make 50.

Not for a moment in looking back over the past 30-years or so since I lost my then full-time job working for a politican following the government’s defeat in an election and two days later winning a golf tournament promotion, would I have thought in becoming a golf journalist that it would lead to me now having played golf in 47 different countries (As of 31st Decmeber, 2025) My first round of golf was in growing up in northern Sydney suburb of Willoughby and teeing-up at the nine-hole Castlecove ...

Ballymena Daily Farmer Finishes Biggest Irish Open Moooover At Galgorm Castle

The prize for leading Irishman at the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open goes to local dairy farmer, Billy O’Kane. O’Kane appeared on TV coverage during the third round sitting enjoying a steaming cuppa and as the picture zoomed out, here was the sight of O’Kane as content as could be surrounded by dozens of brown cows on the property that ajoins the Galgorm Castle course. It left Paul McGinley, and who was calling the action for SKY Sports Golf, to react:  “And he’s got a few friends outside ...