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Crail Golfing Socieity’s Andrew Davidson proudly ended a 22-year ‘home’ victory drought by capturing the 25th edition of the famed Battle Trophy. Davidson, 31, posted a closing round two-under-par 70 to win by four shots with a 279 total over the acclaimed Craighead Links course at Crail. Bathgate’s James Wood, who played the closing two rounds in Davidson’s company, signed for 68 to finish runner-up and a 283-tally. Roxburghe’s Jack MacDonald, and winner of the event when last played ...

  South Korean Si Woo Kim is just one round shy of becoming the 12th ‘International’ to win in the 17 events on this year’s PGA Tour schedule. All the notes from the third round of the RBC Heritage hereunder: Weather: Mostly sunny. High of 77. Wind SSE 10-15 mph, with gusts up to 18 mph. Third-Round Leaderboard Pos. Player R1 R2 R3 Total 1 Si Woo Kim 68 64 66 198 (-15) T2 Andrew Novak 68 65 66 199 (-14) T2 Justin Thomas 61 69 69 199 (-14) 4 Maverick McNealy 70 65 65 200 ...

Host club member Andrew Davidson described it as ‘local knowledge’ producing a blistering six-under-par second round 66 to take a four-shot lead into the third round of the 25th hosting of the Battle Trophy at Crail Golfing Society. Davidson, 31, was out in the first group at 7.10am local time today (Saturday) with the proud Crail member producing a first round level par 72 in chilly and windy conditions to be among just nine players in the 71-player field to post par or better on the ...

Your Scot Jack McDonald is keen to toast the 25th hosting of the Battle Trophy by retaining the famed Crail Golfing Society reward. The Schloss Roxburghe golfing resort attached McDonald had been runner-up in 2022 and then in 2023 celebrated his 21st birthday year with victory over the Craighead Links course at golf’s seventh oldest club at the East Neuk of Fife in Scotland. However severe flooding in the East Neuk region meant the cancelling of last year’s event and with McDonald just ...

We are learning that it was NOT Masters winning Rory McIlroy’s plan to purposely block any on-course conversation with Bryson DeChambeau, his final round playing parnter at Augusta National. DeChambeau, who had led the Masters after just two final round holes, eventually faded under the weight of a closing 75 to share fifth place. However, DeChambeau shocked most when revealing post his round that McIlroy had not spoken to him from the time the pair shook hands on the first tee until they also ...

Grand Slam winning Rory McIlroy has naturally not wasted any time in ‘ammending’ his X media account to reflect his new super statue in men’s professional golf. McIlroy has a new photograph, an overhead shot of the very moment he holed the winning first extra hole birdie putt to claim victory in the 89th Masters with McIlroy having dropped his putter to raise both arms victoriously into the air. As well, there’s a new caption on his ‘X’ account saying simply:  ...

It was 7th of October, 2007 when I stood beside a young freck-faced, curly-haired golfer named Rory McIlroy at the back of the 18th green at the Old Course at St. Andews. We stood there watching the third last pairing of Open Champions Paul Lawrie and Padraig Harrington completing their rounds in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. Lawrie was standing over a birdie putt that if he holed it, would tie him with McIlroy in then third place on his own at 15-under-par. As we looked on, McIlroy commented: ...