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The 2017 Port Plate has been held and decided with Graham Linn notcing an even 100 Stableford points over the three rounds to be crowned champion. However, the big winner was the funds generated to autism research and in this regards it is a big THANK YOU to leading professionals Adam Scott, Jason Day, Graeme McDowell and Rod ‘Pamps’ Pampling for their wonderful support. According to Port Plate organiser, Brian ‘BJ’ Johnson their video clips help attract enormous interest ...

Seamus Power remained upbeat despite losing his golf clubs in transit to California for the start of the opening event of the new 2017/18 PGA Tour season. On Monday, Power regained full Tour membership by securing the 25th and last place from the Web.com Tour Championship. Power had only managed to qualify for all four rounds in making Friday’s cut-off mark by a single shot. Then having regained his card Power was little time jetting out of nearby Orlando Airport and bound for San Francisco ...

Darren Clarke gets yet another taste of MENA Tour competiton teeing-up at the Ayla Golf Club and the first time a Tour event has been staged in Jordan. In recent weeks Clarke, as the MENA Tour patron, has competed in Ras Al Khaimah, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The Greg Norman-designed Ayla Golf Club course is the first 18-hole course to be built in Jordan and laid-out in a stunning location overlooking the Red Sea. The course is considered Norman’s top three most sustainable golf courses, featuring ...

Ten years ago, Rory McIlroy had stood at the back of the 18th green at the Old Course in St.Andrew’s on October 7th, 2007 declaring:  “It Paul Lawrie misses this putt, that’s my Tour card”, McIlroy, and then aged just 18, had signed off for a round of 68 on the final day of the 2007 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship and his third event as a pro. He was lying in third place at 15-under par and with Lawrie, who was the reigning Open Champion, sharing fourth place at 14-under par but now staring ...

World No. 1 Dustin Johnson confirmed he will return to contest next year’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. It will be the second year in succession Johnson’ will compete in the UAE capital and comes also as a big golfing boost to the region and to the European Tour event. “I really enjoyed the event last year so much and that is why I am going back next year,” said Johnson. “I like the golf course as it sets up great for my game and it’s also a great atmosphere with good crowds. “I went ...

New British Masters champion Paul Dunne admits he has been far too hard on himself in the goal to become a winner on the European Tour. In one of the most dramatic conclusions to a Tour event for some time, Dunne stunned a predominantly ‘Geordie’ gathering in denying overwhelming last day crowd favourite, Rory McIlroy, Dunne was not gifted the trophy nor did he fall into victory. No, the 24-year old softly-spoken Greystones golfer left a momumental impression not only on McIlroy and the also ...

Ireland’s Padraig Harrington has given a strongest hint ever he is prepared to put his name ‘in the hat’ in becoming a European Ryder Cup Captain. Harrington, 46 is a veteran of six European Ryder Cup teams afer making his debut in 1999 and remaining a member of the team for the next five sides, and including being a member of the victorious 2002, ’04, ’06 and 2010 teams. In recent years Harrington has gleanded enormous future captaincy experience as a vice-captain in ...