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The MENA Tour by Arena and the Alps Tour have announced an exciting new reciprocal playing opportunity for members of both Tours. Starting the 2020 season, the Tours have reached an agreement under which they will give leading five players from the other tour eligibility to play the full season. The top five available players from the 2019 Final Order of Merit from the Alps Tour (up to top-10 and not otherwise exempt) will thus be able to play the 2020 season of the MENA Tour by Arena, while ...

USA Presidents Cup playing captain, Tiger Woods had no sooner stepped off a near 25-hour flight to Australia to find himself dragged into the controversy surrounding embattled team member, Patrick Reed. Woods and all but one member of his red-hot 12-man side arrived into Melbourne Monday morning local time on a charter jet from the Bahamas where they had been contesting the Hero World Challenge. Woods, and a first playing captain of either a Presidents Cup or Ryder Cup since 1994, confessed he is ...

…… Sydney, Australia  Matt Jones is celebrating after capturing a second Australian Open victory after posting a final round 69 to win by a shot at 15-under par on the Australian Club course in Sydney. Jones, 39 went into the final round enjoying a three-stroke leading cushion at 13-under par but needed to hole a testing four-feet par on the 72nd green after South African Louis Oosthuizen brought the crowd around the last hole to their feet in holing a monster putt for an eagle ‘3’. The ...

Darren Clarke and his son, Tyrone gelled well to produce a nine-under par 63 while Padraig Harrington admitted his 15-year old son, Paddy ‘carried’ their team on the opening day of the PNC Father and Son Challenge in Orlando. The Clarke’s were five-under through eight holes and then birdied their closing two holes to be sharing sixth place and five shots adrift of ‘Team Goosen’, the pair of double US Open winning Retief and his son, Leo. The Goosen’s were six-under ...

Two years on from their team debut and Paddy Harrington reckons he and his triple Major winning father can walk off with the spoils of victory in today’s commencing (US time Saturday) PNC Father and Son Challenge in Orlando. It is the 22nd staging of the event and first contested in 1995 that brings together Major Champions and their siblings. Heading this year’s field again is 18-time Major winning Jack Nicklaus who has returned to tee-up alongside his 17-year old grandson, GT, for ...

… Sydney, Australia  Australian Matt Jones intends drawing on winning memories of four years ago in taking a three-shot lead into the final round of the Australian Open in Sydney. Jones, 39 posted a third round 68 that included five birdies and dropped only two shots to move to 13-under par on the Australian Club course where he has been a member since aged 15. American Cameron Tringale (69) is in second place on 10-under par and with sensational Japan amateur Takumi Kanaya (70), South African ...

… Sydney, Australia  For young rooke Irishman Conor Purcell it was not the choking Sydney bushfire smoke that was of concern but more a case of losing sight on the greens on day one of only his second tournament as a professional. Purcell played well tee-to-green but simply struggled on the greens on the opening round at the Australian Open at The Australian club in Sydney. The 22-year old posted a disappointing six-over par 77 to be sharing 138th place and desperately needing a low second ...