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Torrey Pines, California …. The former coach to Tiger Woods admits he will be keeping a keen eye from afar on Stephen Gallacher’s showing in this week’s 30th anniversary Dubai Desert Classic. The double Dubai winner is among six Scots, and including 1996 champion, Colin Montgomerie, teeing-up on the famed Emirates Course. Gallacher took the bold move prior to Christmas to travel from Scotland to Orlando and spent three days with renowend coach, Sean Foley. The Canadian-born Foley has worked ...

Torrey Pines, California … Rory McIlroy tees-up for a first time in his career at the Farmers Insurance Open declaring give him time and he’ll figure out how to add to current four Majors victory haul. McIlroy has also returned to the Torrey Pines course also for a first occasion since he was a 10-year old when he attended the opening ceremony for the Junior World Championship but with the event itself taking place in nearby San Diego. The now World No. 8 recalls managing an ace on a ...

Tiger Woods returns to competition this week a last-up winner on the PGA Tour having replaced the trepidation and uncertainty of a year ago with an eagerness in capturing an eighth Farmers Insurance Open. Woods got his first look at the host Torrey Pines course in some twelve months when he played a nine-hole practice round in the company of Jordan Spieth. Spieth quizzed Woods during their round as to how long he had been visiting the stunning clifftop course overlooking the Pacific Ocean to the ...

Torrey Pines …. Tiger Woods returns to competition this week itching to jump back into the deep end after spending plenty of time in the off-season diving off the Bahamas. Woods tees-up in the Farmers Insurance Open on the Torrey Pines course near San Diego and in an event he’s won seven times while the clifftop course overlooking the Pacific Ocean also is the venue for his last Major in capturing the 2008 U.S. Open. After the uncertainity of this time 12 months ago Woods also tees-up as ...

One of golf’s more highly-respective obersevers of the game ask the question if Rory McIlroy can successfully ‘reinvent’ himself once he turns 30. Paul McGinley knows McIlroy and he knows McIlroy’s golf game better than anyone. But the 2014 victorious European Ryder Cup captain and much-revered SKY Sports TV pundit is firstly concerned McIlroy is making far too many mistakes over the course of a Sunday final round. We’ve seen it far too often in recent years with McIlroy out in the last ...

Victorious 2014 European Ryder Cup captain, Paul Ginley has ruled-out any likelihood of being a vice-captain under Padraig Harrington for the 2020 Ryder Cup. McGinley and Harrington had attended the same Dublin school and played amateur golf together and against each other, so they were friends long before they emerged on the European Tour and when they did back in the last 80s the duo were virtually insperable. They brilliantly teamed in 1997 to deliver Ireland its first and still only victory ...

Shane Lowry’s start to a 20-month journey to the shoreline of Lake Michigan could not have been choreographed any brighter. At the commencement also to a 10th full season in the pro ranks Lowry became the first Irishman in the events 14-year history to lift the gleaming Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship Falcon trophy. Not only did Lowry first equal the course record, he set a new record for the number of ‘2s’ in four Tour rounds and also bravely burying any lingering 2016 US Open near-victory demons ...