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Ewen Ferguson’s quietly-confident a nagging neck injury will not hinder him teeing-up in this week’s co-sanctioned Joburg Open. Ferguson, 28, has not competed since withdrawing​ after just six holes in the opening round of last month’s Qatar Masters​ in Doha. The Dubai-based Scot had been struggling with the injury since his solid 16th place in January’s season-opening Hero Dubai Desert Classic but then disappointingly missing the halfway cut in his next two events in Ras Al Khaimah ...

This week’s Joburg Open being played at the Houghton Club is yet another tournament that brings back fond memories. It was two weeks into 2000 and my first time in South Africa. A fortnight earlier I had stood in darkness, apart from the lights of one or two motor vehicles, on the first tee of the Tonga Golf Club and at the stroke of midnight I hit the first shot on a golf course in the new Millennium. A fortnight later I made my way from the eastern Pacific Ocean shoreline in Australia west ...

Scott Jamieson surely can’t feel hard done by after heavy rain washed-out the final round of the 114th Investec South African Open in Durban. Jamieson had ended his third round late Saturday sharing ninth place at 10-under but with still a handful of golfers to complete their rounds due to darkness on the host Durban Country Club course. Among those still to complete his third round was South African Dylan Naidoo, 27-year-old, Joburg-born, current World No. 466 who had won twice on the Sunshine ...

Newly-crowned New Zealand Open champion Ryan Peake will be hoping his criminal past will not seriously affect the excitement a new career path. The 31-year-old Aussie stormed home to capture the 104th hosting of the New Zealand Open trophy thanks to a bogey-free final round 66 to win by a shot at 23-under at the stunning Millford Sound Resort course outside of Queenstown on New Zealand’s South Island. Peake was soaked in champers by his good friends and in what now is a remarkable story after ...

You will not find top stars Jordan Spieth and Rickie Fowler among the list of those afforded invitations into next week’s $20m Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando. That’s surprising as one would think the likes of the triple major winning Spieth and Fowler will be great crowd pullers when the event tees-up on Arnie’s beloved Bayhill course. No, that is not how Steve Saunders and Arnie’s grandson looks at it. Thanks to colleague and good friend Adam Schupak of Golf Week we ...

Scotland’s Scott Jamieson is just a round shy of ending a 12-year ​winless drought​ in Durban, remarkably just two miles from where he captured a first and only victory in South Africa’s third largest city. Jamieson, 41, grabbed seven birdies including three in succession in a 68 for a 10-under tally in very testing windy conditions on day three of the rain-affected 114th South African Open on the Durban Country Club and virtually just up the road where in December 2012 he won the ...

The emotional golf-related news in recent weeks continues to remind us all there is so much more to golf than trying to hit a golf ball around a golf course in the least number of shots you can. There’s been a few stories that have pulled hard at the heart strings. Sad news of Tiger’s beloved mother, Kultida passing away over-showered everything in golf.  No, everything in sport! Tiger was still very much in mourning when he unexpectedly attended the final day of the Genesis Invitational ...