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Pádraig Harrington will now join fellow Open Champion Shane Lowry in contesting the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open at Galgorm Castle Golf Club from September 24-27. Had it not been for the Coronavirus, Harrington would be leading his European Team into competition that week in the Ryder Cup. Instead, Harrington will be teeing-up in Northern Ireland in his first competitive appearance in nearly seven months when the three-time Major winner targets a second victory in the event. The 49-year-old was due ...

There were no keys to a new car, no cash windfall and no champagne shower other than a gift pack of local wine when Jonathon Caldwell grabbed an ‘ace’ on day two of the Portugal Masters. Caldwell had bogeyed the third and fourth holes but then birdied the fifth when he stood on the tee at the near 200-metre par-3 sixth hole. Caldwell’s caddy, Henry Tomlinson’s instructions were seemingly clear: “Aim at the camera tower.  Middle of the green.” The 36-year old Belfast golfer, and a proud ...

Aussie Cameron Percy could proudly stand tall in posting an eight-under par 64 on the opening of the Safeway Open. Percy, 46, didn’t drop a shot to end the first day in the opening event of the 2020/21 PGA Tour schedule being played in Napa, California. If left Percy trailing just a shot behind Scotland’s Russell Knox heading into day two of the $6m event. The effort was Percy’s lowest round since a similar 64 during the staging of the 2028 Barbasol Championship. Though in speaking ...

It is the first day of a new decade – 1st January, 2020. The annual Sydney New Year’s Eve fireworks extravanza has again provided a spectacle hard to be matched by any city in the world, and this despite the controversy of allowing the $6.5m pyrotechnic show to go ahead when there is so many devestating and life-taking bushfires still raging out-of-control across the State of New South Wales. On the first day of 2020, the effects of the bushfires is clearly noticeable with a smoke haze ...

Tournament host, Graeme McDowell has reluctantly withdrawn from teeing-up later this month in the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open. McDowell admitted it was a ‘very difficult decision’ not to return home in these continuing uncertain times. Instead, McDowell indicated he will defend his Corales Punta Cana Resort and Club Championship title in the Dominican Republic. It was clearly a difficult decision for McDowell just as it had been earlier this week with Shane Lowry who agonised over whether he ...

Russell Knox could not be happier breaking out in a huge smile in posting his lowest score in four years in muscling his way to the early lead on day of the Safeway Open and the opening event of the new 2020/21 PGA Tour season. Knox set about burying the demons of the prior season with a flawless display of a nine-under par 63 on the parkland style Silverado course at Napa Valley, California. It is Knox’s lowest score since a similar 63 in October 2016 at the CIMB Classic and his first event of ...

Shane Lowry was heading straight to the practice range despite the delight in posting a four-under 68 on the opening day of the Safeway Open at Napa in California. Lowry, and competing in the $US 6m event for the first time in his career, was level par through 11 holes and then played his closing seven holes in four-under on the Silverado resort course. Scotland’s Russell Knox and, like Lowry, a former Irish Open winner grabbed an eagle and seven birdies in a nine-under par 63 to take the early ...