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Wade Ormsby finds himself just one round shy of a break-through European Tour victory heading to the final round of the co-sanctioned Fiji International. Adelaide’s favourite golfing son was in sizzling form on day three taking ‘Route 66’ in snatching seven birdies in ten holes from the eighth to the 17th and move to 10-under par on the stunning Natadola Bay GC, at Natadola in Fiji. Ormsby’s cause was also helped when 29-year old fellow Aussie Jason Norris walked off ...

Greensboro, NC … Shane Lowry and former Irish Open winner, Soren Kjeldsen are literally ‘feeding’ off each other. The duo and their respective caddies are sharing a house for this week’s Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina. And between them they are a combined 17-under par through two rounds of the $US 5.8m event. After opening on Thursday with a three under 67, Lowry donned the cook’s apron on Thursday in preparing a meal of sushi for waiting for Kjeldsen and his caddy ...

Greensborn, NC … Shane Lowry and Seamus Power refused to wilt in near meltdown conditions posting four under 67s on the opening day of the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina. Lowry was one-over through five holes but completed his closing 13 in four-under including three birdies in a four-hole stretch from his 11thon the Sedgefield Country Club course. Power, and teeing-up in Greensboro for a first occasion, birdied his. first three holes and then ‘thinned’ a wedge at the ...

Greensboro, NC … Padraig Harrington posted his equal-lowest round of a injury-interrupted season in shooting a four-under par 66 on day one of the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina. The effort, in stiffling hot and humid conditions. is Harrington’s best round since a similar 66 on the opening day of the recent Travelers Championship in Connecticut. It left the Dubliner sharing the leading Irish honors and trailing five shots behind American Matt Every who signed for a ...

Greensboro, NC …  The Scottish duo of Russell Knox and Martin Laird were delighted to find the air-conditioned comfort of the clubhouse after recording similar four-under par 66s in sweltering conditions on the opening day of the Wyndham Championship in North Carolina. The Tartan pair, and starting on different nines, each recoded six birdies and two bogeys in temperatures in the low 90s and near 70% humidity on the Sedgefield Country Club course in Greensboro. Daytona based Matt Every raced ...

Greensboro, NC… Russel Knox is determined to make amends for a ‘disappointing’ Majors year over the final handful events of his season. Scotland’s top-ranked golfer has entered this week’s Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina for just the third time in his career. For most, the event won by fellow Scot Sandy Lyle in 1985 and 1988, is a ‘Last Chance Saloon’ given it is the last regular event of the 2016/16 wraparound PGA Tour season ahead of start next week of the FedEx ...

Greensboro, NC … For the four Irish contesting this week’s Wyndham Championship is a case of a PGA Tour ‘Last Chance Saloon’. With the exception of Seamus Power three others in Graeme McDowell, Shane Lowry and Padraig Harrington are each outside the top-125 heading into this week’s final regular event of 2016/17 wrapround schedule if they are to qualify for next week’s start to the four-event FedEx Cup Play-Off Series. Power is closest to qualifying lying 123rd and first needing ...