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TPC Boston, MA …. Russell Knox has promised Scotland will have their two strongest World Ranked golfers flying the Tartan colours in this year’s ISPS Handa World Cup of Golf in Australia. Knox took some criticism two years ago in selecting good friend, Duncan Stewart and then ranked No. 324 in the world and this despite the duo combing well to shoot a final round 65 and share eighth place. But there will be no arguments this year with the World No. 57 ranked Knox, and as Scotland’s highest ...

TPC Boston, MA … Tiger Woods will look to end his on-course putting woes packing a TaylorMade ‘Juno’ prototype putter not yet on the market into his ‘Monster Energy’ bag heading into this week’s Dell Technologies Championship near Boston. Woods is currently ranked the 26th best putter on the Tour averaging 28.52 putts for each of the 54 rounds he has contested this year. But in breaking down the stats to look at a player’s round-by-round statistics Woods ...

TPC Boston, MA … Rory McIlroy returns to competition this week buoyed by thoughts of a third Boston victory party and eager to help steer Europe to success later next month in Versailles. McIlroy emerged onto the TPC Boston practice range just after 3pm local time Tuesday in sweltering sauna-like conditions ahead of Friday’s start to the Euro 7.7m final Dell Technologies Championship just to south of Boston. McIlroy tees-up, and after skipping last week’s Northern Trust, having dropped ...

TPC Boston, MA …. Double Major winning Zach Johnson has described as a ‘coincidence’ a tweet that may suggest he will be travelling with the USA Team to next month’s Ryder Cup. Johnson, and a veteran of five Ryder Cups, tweeted a picture Tuesday of the bag handed to him as a gift by one of his sponsors. In the bag was a white 2018 USA Team Ryder Cup cap. The picture of the cap in Johnson’s bag immediately had Twitter followers, including rival European Team captain, Thomas Bjorn, ...

TPC Boston …. Was it Zach Johnson’s honest mistake to tweet a photograph showing a small portion of a 2018 USA Ryder Cup cap in a bag of goodies he received in joining other PGA in a Net Jets corporate outing on New York’s Long Island. The double Major winner had played in four Ryder Cup’s before being a member of a first victorious team in 2016 at Hazeltine. There is three ways to look the image Johnson posted on Twitter. Firstly, and more than likely, Johnson will be taking ...

TPC Boston, MA .... There would seem to be two Spainish-born golfers heading to the Ryder Cup later next month and one of those will not be Masters Champion, Sergio Garcia. Jon Rahm earned his place in a maiden Ryder Cup by automatically qualifying for Thomas Bjorn’s European Team. Two others, Rafa Cabrera-Bello and Garcia, are figthing to win Bjorn’s approval when the Dane confirms the eventual 12-man make-up of his team in annoucning his four ‘wildcard’ picks at 2pm (BST) ...

Seamus Power’s competitive nature came to the fore when expressing his disappointment in not heading north to this week’s Dell Technologies Championship near Boston. Instead, and after a few weeks off, he will return home to Ireland for a friend’s wedding delighted to have ended a first PGA Tour ‘Play-Off Series’ event with a rousing round of 67 at the Northern Trust in New Jersey. Power jumped 25 places to just outside the leading 30 in a bogey—free final day effort of four ...