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Shane Lowry’s thrill in being introduced on the opening tee as the 2019 Open Champion was spoilt when he walked from the final green in posting a level par 72 on day one of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. Lowry teed-up alongside now fellow Open Champions Rory McIlroy and Francesco Molinari and it was the Italian in finishing stronger than his pair of Irish-born rivals. Molinari, who had gleaned so much confidence in May last year in going head-to-head with McIlroy to set the cornerstone ...

Rory McIlroy now knows better not to disagree with his wife in revealing the part played by ‘Mrs. Mc’ earlier this year to get him to re-join the European Tour. McIlroy tees-up in today’s (THUS) commencing BMW PGA Championship and just a third ‘regular’ European Tour event this season. The current World No. 2 dropped a golfing bombshell late last year declaring he would not be re-joining the European Tour and instead, he was starting 2019 in the Hawaiian Islands for a first occasion in ...

It’s official with Rory McIlroy confirming he will contest the 2020 Dubai Duty Free Irish Open. McIlroy indicated his intentions to tee-up in Ireland’s premier event ahead of this week’s BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. There has been speculation in recent week’s the current World No. 2 would return to the tournament he captured in such spectacular manner at the K. Club in 2016 but now we have confirmation from the man himself, and this after the controversy of earlier this ...

European Ryder Cup Captain, Padraig Harrington has handed rookie Scot Robert McIntyre a huge Whistling Straits boost revealing his name is already on a list of 2020 team ‘Probables’. The year-long European Team qualifying process commences at this week’s BMW PGA Championship and with Harrington announcing Sweden’s Robert Karlsson as the first of five vice-captains. It is the second straight Ryder Cup Karlsson will be a vice-captain and with Harrington declaring the now 50-year old Swede ‘will ...

European Ryder Cup captain, Padraig Harrington has likened Suzann’s Pettersen’s Solheim Cup victory putt to the putt fellow Irishman Paul McGinley holed to give Europe victory in the 2002 Ryder Cup. Pettersen had been a controversial choice as a European ‘wildcard’ pick but the Norwegian turned into the Gleneagles winning hero when he holed an eight-foot birdie putt on the very last hole, and in the very last match, against USA rival Marina Alex 1up. Harrington was in Amsterdam ...

There is simply two words why top-ranked Scot Russell Knox journeyed across ‘The Pond’ to tee-up in this week’s BMW PGA Championship and a first appearance next week in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in his native Scotland – Ryder Cup. This week’s European Tour flagship event at Wentworth is the first qualifying event for the 2020 Ryder Cup and with Knox, and having gone close to automatic selection in 2016, determined to make the most of his Whistling Strait opportunities. Knox ...

Shane Lowry found himself surprised by European Tour CEO, Keith Pelley ahead of the Open Champion attending a pre-BMW PGA Championship press conference. As is customary with anyone European Tour capturing a Major they are afforded honourary Life Membership. “So as has become a custom on the European Tour for all European Tour members that win a major, you receive Honorary Life Membership, and so I’m here to present Shane with his Honorary Life Membership,” said Pelley. “It ...