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For only a second time in his career Stephen Gallacher tees-up in this week’s DP World Tour (DPWT) six-round, six day Final Qualifier at Tarragona in Spain. The recently-turned 50-year-old will join three other Scots in Friday’s starting torture test where the leading 20 will secure full 2025 membership. Gallacher is no stranger to the host course having teed-up two years ago in his first-ever appearance in any form of Tour qualifying since securing his main Tour card in 1996.   EXCLUSIVE ...

Stephen Gallacher continues to be one of the nicest golfers you could ever meet. There’s not been one occasion in over 30-years reporting on the efforts of Scottish-born players that Stevie has ever declined this journalist’s request for his time. It speaks volumes of the support he’s afforded all members of the media. And in celebrating his 50th birthday I’ve enjoyed putting together 50 facts and figures you may already know or maybe not on this most affable of professional ...

Birthday boy Stephen Gallacher celebrates the big FIVE ZERO today (November 1st) singling out top-Scot Robert MacIntyre as the new ‘trailblazer’ in Scottish men’s pro golf. When Gallacher made his DP World Tour debut as a 19-year-old amateur at the 1993 Bells Scottish Open at Gleneagles it was the likes of Colin Montgomerie, Sam Torrance and his uncle Bernard Gallacher who inspired him. Though as Gallacher now focuses on the next chapter in his golf career and the up-coming Champions Tour Q-School ...

He will forever be revered as one of Ireland’s favourite sons – Paul McGinley captain of the victorious 2014 European Ryder Cup team. McGinley’s men out-played Tom Watson’s visiting Americans to the tune of 16 1/2 to 11 1/5 so much so you can probably still hear faint sounds of cheering among the hills and valleys in the mountains surrounding stately Gleneagles. However one can never wrest on their laurels and McGinley moved on from those three wonderful days in the Home of ...

When is the last time, and if there ever was a first occasion, when your game of golf was warmly interrupted when the son of the owner of the golf course you were in the process of tackling had the full Irish breakfast laid out for you on the bonnet of his car parked at the back of one of the golf holes? It happened one day when legendary golf journalist Dai Davies and myself were playing the famed European Club in Ireland. Dai, who wrote The Guardian newpaper and sadly passed away in 2008, and ...

Scotland’s Graeme Robertson is one of 13 Scots in a field over just over 300 players teeing-up later this week in Spain at the second stage of qualifing as players seek to earn full 2025 DP World Tour membership. The top-75 players after four rounds will then remain in Spain for the following week’s – November 8th to 13th – six round final stage of qualifying and, if among the leading 25 after what will be 10 rounds of competition in 14 days, will earn their 2025 DPWT card. Last ...

EXCLUSIVE …. Super Scot Stevie Gallacher turns the big  5 0  later later this week and he’s already excitedly looking forward to hopefully tackling the next challenge in his super career – competing Stateside on the PGA Champions Tour. Gallacher has teed-up in a staggering 663 DP World Tour events since making his debut as a 19-year-old at the 1993 Scottish Open and in the ensuring years he’s proceeded to earn a cool Euro 12m in prize money. The Bathgate pro captured the first ...