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Sixteen-time Tour Graeme McDowell shares the view of golfs’s two ruling bodies in declaring unrelenting distance gains is lessening overall enjoyment of golf. Some two decades after warning that further significant distance increases would “have the impact of seriously reducing the challenge of the game,” the USGA and R&A finally appear poised to tackle one of the ancient club-and-ball game’s biggest issues. In collecting data from industry experts, tours and stakeholders, golf’s ...

Jedda, Saudi Arabia …… Speculation the Saudi Government is behind a breakaway Premier Golf League (PGL) has now led to confirmation the mega-rich Arab nation’s ambition to seek a second European Tour event, a first PGA Tour and also the maiden hosting Asian Tour event plus the staging of the World Cup of Golf. The day after Graeme McDowell holed the winning putt to capture the second Saudi International and the Saudi Golf Federation played host to the Golf Saudi Summit. The summit ...

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia … Newly-crowned Saudi International and former Scottish Open champ Graeme McDowell confirmed he’s likely to contest this year’s Aberdeen Standard Investments Scottish Open despite not a fan of The Renaissance course. McDowell’s stature as a true global superstar was enhanced in ending a near six-year European Tour victory drought in winning by two shots along the stunning Red Sea shoreline. The victory was the 16th of McDowell’s career and remarkably a 12th in ...

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia … Graeme McDowell celebrated his Saudi International victory in impressive manner as ‘guest-of-honour’ of the Saudi Government. McDowell’s stature as a true global superstar was enhanced in ending a near six-year victory drought in winning the Saudi International by two shots along the stunning Red Sea shoreline and then dining in the grandiose host Royal Greens Club clubhouse. The win was the 16th of McDowell’s career and remarkably a 12th in a dozen different ...

It somewhat comes as no surprise Greg Norman is backing plans for a breakaway Premier Golf League. Rewind to late 1994 and Norman attends the Media Centre at the Australian Open at the Royal Sydney Club in Sydney. The golfer known as the ‘Great White Shark’ has rocked the golfing establishment to its collective foundations with talk of a 10-event World Championship Series. Tim Finchem is at the helm of the PGA Tour and he and Norman never really saw eye-to-eye so it seemed relatively easy for ...

Saudi Arabia ... There is not many ‘global’ competitors who can boast a record Graeme McDowell enjoys. In capturing the second staging of the Saudi International McDowell has won 12th of his now 15th wins in a dozen different countries. 6                    Nearly six years since last European Tour at 2014 French Open 11                   Number of European Tour victories 12                  Number of different countries where he’s won – Sweden, ...

Saudi Arabia …Graeme McDowell has canned a Caribbean family holiday and now has Augusta, Georgia on his mind in muscling his way back into the world’s top-50 after his Saudi International victory. McDowell ended a five-and-a-half year European Tour winless drought in posting a final round 70 to win by two shots fro defending champ Dustin Johnson with a 12-under par tally in bright but very windy conditions on the course laid-out along the Red Sea. The win, and McDowell’s 11th European ...