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Scottish golfer David Law will be among 20 players who will return tomorrow (Thursday) to the Lakes course at the Infinitum Resort to resume their weather-delayed fifth rounds at Final Qualifying of the DP World Tour (DPWT) at Tarragona in Spain. Play was halted yesterday (Tuesday) at 3.50pm local time due to thunderstorm activity in the area to the south of Barcelona while an hour later the Tour advised play was being called for the day and with an 8.30am Wednesday resumption. However at around ...

Some seven weeks after leading his LIV Golf ‘Ripper’ side to a $US 14m triumph in Texas and Cam Smith tees-up as the star attraction in the $AUD 800,000 New South Wales Open being played close to Australia’s famed Murray River. It is the second of four straight ‘Down Under’ tournaments for the 2022 Open Championship winning hero and culminating with the ISPS Handa Australian Open in Melbourne. Smith’s first event back home was last fortnight where he finished third ...

Rory McIlroy has spoken ahead of this week of his desire to cut down his yearly playing schedule. The World No. 3 at the close of this week’s DP World Tour Championship will have contested 26 tournaments this year and that will be five more than last year while the last time he played anywhere near 26 events was 27 back in 2010. McIlroy’s highest number events a year remains 29 events in 2008 and in a first full year as a professional, and also a year he turned 19-years of age. He tees-up ...

Top Scot Robert MacIntyre heads into his final DP World Tour (DPWT) event of the season singing the praise of ​his ‘career changing’ year. The lofty World No. 16 tees-up in the DP World Tour Championship joining American Billy Horschell as the only player this week to have won twice on this year’s PGA Tour​ and along with Rory McIlroy and Horschel, MacIntyre’s won both on the PGA and DPWR Tours in 2024. MacIntyre headed into his rookie PGA Tour season struggling with his game and ...

Not for a moment in looking back over the past 30-years when I lost my then full-time job working for a politician following the governments defeat in an Australian State election and then bizarrely two days later winning a golf tournament promotion, would I have thought in becoming a full-time golf journalist that it would have led to me now having played golf in 47 different countries (As of 1st November, 2024). My first round of golf in growing up in northern Sydney suburb of Willoughby was at ...

Scotland’s David Law is on target to regain his 2025 DP World Tour card thanks to birdieing his closing three holes in a score of 64 on day four of Final Qualifying at Tarragona in Spain. Law, 33 jumped an impressive eight places to end day four sharing fourth place at 16-under-par and with the leading 20 players after six rounds to be afforded a full DPWT Tour card for next season. The Aberdonian had posted earlier rounds of 67, 68 and 71 before grabbing eight birdies and just the one bogey ...

There is some really great names when it comes to naming golf holes. Famed holes that feature on the Open Championship rota while each April the focus of the golf world is the Masters at Augusta National and golf hole names that most fans of the ancient club-and-ball game are very familiar. Here is a small selection of famed golf holes and some not that well known. * The Road Hole – 17th on the Old Course at St. Andrews (Long been one of the hardest holes in golf) * Calamity Corner – ...