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Rory McIlroy’s dented pride helped in birding four of his closing six holes but there was no disguising his horrors on the second day of the PGA Championship at Bethpage Park on New York’s Long Island. McIlroy painfully celebrated the second day of his first major as a 30-year old with two contrasting nine holes in a sad score of a one-over par 71 for a three-over par tally. The four-time Major winner efforts to bridge a nine-shot deficit on defending champ, Brooks Koepka began with McIlroy ...

Rory McIlroy’s efforts to bridge a nine-shot deficit on defending champ, Brooks Koepka was off to a horror start when he posted a first hole double-bogey ‘6’ and a second hole bogey ‘5’ to commence his second round at Bethpage Park on New York’s Long Island. McIlroy, and starting his round from the 502-yard par-4 10th tee, sent his drive well right into knee-high rough from where his second shot veered way left into similar knee-high rough. There was plent deliberation ...

Graeme McDowell more than welcomes the ‘hope you make it into The Open’ comments but then the Portrush native is fully aware what he needs to do to qualify for golf’s oldest major. McDowell got one ‘gorilla’ off his back earlier this year in securing PGA Tour full membership to end of 2021 with victory in the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship in March. Ahead for the G Mac is a goal of locking-in a tee-time In July at the 148th Open Championship. There is still a number of ...

Rory McIlroy’s first round in his 30s was much as painful as his last scoring effort as a 29-year old on day one of the PGA Championship at Bethpage Park on New York’s Long Island. McIlroy went without a birdie till the very last hole in posting a disappointing two-over par 72  leaving him trailing a massive nine shots behind defending PGA champ, Brooks Koepka who smashed the course record with a bogey-free 63. New Zealand’s Danny Lee also showed there is a very low score ...

Graeme McDowell found a US Open-like course set-up much to his liking in posting a level par 70 on the opening day of the PGA Championship at Bethpage Park. McDowell was in the clubhouse with three birdies and an equal number of bogeys minutes before defending champ, Brooks Koepka made a mockery of the Black Course ‘warning sign’ in storming to a four-shot lead with a seven-under par 63. Koepka, and with Portrush caddy, Ricky Elliott continuing to call the shots, became the first player on the ...

Knock knock.  Who’s there? Robert MacIntyre joint runner-up in the Betfred British Masters. The Oban lefty, and thanks to a game of ‘Knock, Knock’ before he went to bed, has brilliantly taken a huge step in wrapping-up next season’s Tour card with a gusty share of second in the British Masters. MacIntyre, 22 muscled with way into a four-way share of the lead finishing eagle, birdie in a round of 68 before having the chance at a play-off snatched from him by the similar aged Swede Marcus ...

Hillside .. Richie Ramsay is copying World No.1 Dustin Johnson’s ‘caveman golf’ style of play that hopefullu will see the Scot emerge from a near four-year winless drought and capture the Betfred British Masters. Ramsay brilliantly birding his closing two holes, and just prior to 8pm, in  a round of 67 to move into four-way share of second place at 11-under par on the host Hillside course. Ramsay holed a five-footer on 17 and then drained a 25-footer at the last moments before a Tartan ...