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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 ...

Shane Lowry put the pedal to the metal muscling his way to within a shot of the lead with a 67 on the opening day of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. Lowry was caught in traffic to be just one-under after 11 holes but then completing the closing seven in four-under on the famed ‘Burma Road’ West Course. It left the Open Champion in a group of four just a shot behind the leading trio of  England’s Tyrrell Hatton, South African Justin Harding and Spaniard Adri Arnaus posting six-under ...

Francesco Molinari is one of the last global golf stars to return to competition in teeing-up at this week’s Shriners Hospital for Children Open in Las Vegas. The last time the brilliant 2018 Open winner was inside the ropes at a championship venue was for the opening round of the then cancelled Players Championship. Since then much has been written about the Italian and with players such as good friend, Tommy Fleetwood being asked at last week’s ASI Scottish Open his view as to whether ...

Shane Lowry is determined to celebrate his 10th anniversary BMW PGA Championship appearance with victory at Tour HQ. Lowry is among seven major champions, including fellow Irish Padraig Harrington and Graeme McDowell, teeing-up on the famed ‘Burma Road’ West Course at Wentworth in Surrey. The Euro 6.1m Rolex Series event had been due to be staged a month ago but was put back to this week and under a continuing ‘no spectator’ policy. Lowry made his Wentworth debut in 2010 as then reigning ...

We all know Patrick Reed is about as red-white-and-blue as it comes but he’s expressed a strong determination to become the first American-born in nearly 50- years to be crowned European Tour No. 1 ahead of teeing-up in this week’s BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. Reed, and the strong focus of European spectator attention at the Ryder Cup, is teeing-up for a second straight year in the Tour’s flagship event that has been pushed back one month due to continuing COVID-19 concerns. It’s ...