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St. Louis, Missouri ….. The European Tour has apologised to World No. 11 and England’s Tommy Fleetwood after a ‘clerical error’ led to Carnoustie prize cheque for £110,000 deposited into the account of a former club professional and now caddy by the same name but living in the U.S. The World No. 11 ranked golfer Fleetwood earned the amount in sharing 12th place at the 147th Open Championship but for some bizarre reason the sum turned-up in the account of 58-year old now ...

St. Louis, Missouri … Padraig Harrington’s ‘fear of God’ demeanour over the final few holes in capturing the 2008 PGA Championship has been replaced 10-years on with a fear of simply getting off to a good start at Bellerive. Harrington captured a third Major Championship and a second in two weeks by again denying Spain’s Sergio Garcia along with American Ben Curtis to win the 90th PGA Championship at Oakland Hills in suburban Detroit. The proud Dubliner rebounded from opening ...

St. Louis, Missouri …. Paul Dunne has ruled out any thought of contesting the end-of-season Web.com final series and the likelihood of earning his PGA Tour card. Dunne tees-up tomorrow (THUS) is his first PGA Championship but struggling to find the form that earned him victory in last year’s British Masters and a share of success earlier this year in the Golf Sixes. As well, there’s back-to-back top-10s earlier this year on the PGA Tour and with his PGA Tour earnings this year a few thousand ...

St. Louis, Missouri … What is the odds of Zach Johnson finding himself grouped with Zach Johnson on any of the two weekend rounds in this week’s 100th PGA Championship. Let me explain as it’s quite simple. There is two Zach Johnson’s competing this week at Bellerive in suburban St. Louis. One is the 42-year old double Major winning Johnson born in Iowa City, Iowa and now residing at St. Simons Island in Georgia. The other is the 35-year old born in Salt Lake City, Utah who found his ...

St. Louis, Missouri … England’s Ross Fisher got his first look at this week’s 100th PGA Championship host course and he clearly liked what he saw. Fisher accompanied fellow Irish Open winner Russell Knox of Scotland in playing the front nine of the Bellerive course located to the north-west of St. Louis, Missouri. The duo, and like all other players in the field this week, were greeted by 100 degree Fahrenheit temperatures and with large electrical fans in operation behind the greens ...

St. Louis, Missouri … Rory McIlroy hit the Bellerive practice range Monday in searing 100-degree F temperatures looking to pick-up the pieces from Sunday’s Bridgestone meltdown. He hit balls for about an hour in the sauna-like conditions before heading to downtown St. Louis to join Sergio Garcia and Tommy Fleetwood again hitting balls under the famed ‘Gateway to the West’ arch located on the banks of the Mississippi River. He tees-up this week a double champion in the 100th staging ...

Akron, Ohio … Tiger Woods returns this week to St. Louis and the Bellerive Country Club 17-years after being ‘pulled from the course’ on the day of the 9/11 terror attacks. Woods was out practicing in the Missouri capital ahead of the 2001 WGC – AMEX Championship when the World Trade Centre was brought down by two terrorist manned airliners. AMEX event organisers wasted little time cancelling the event in the wake of the terrorist attack on New York and Washington and ...