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Ponte Vedre, FL … Sergio Garcia has returned to competition for this week’s Players Championship but without his Masters winning caddy. The wife of Garcia’s long-time South African-born caddy, Glen Murray has just given birth to the couple’s second child and with Garcia arranging for former Spanish European Tour colleague, Jose Manual Lara to carry his Augusta National winning clubs. Lara, 39 won twice on the European Tour with victory in the 2oo6 Honk Kong Open and the 2o1o Austrian Open. No ...

Double Major winning John Daly ended a 13-year winless drought to capture a maiden Champions Tour title with victory in the Insperity Invitational in Houston, Texas. Daly, 51 has won some smaller events in the intervening period including the 2014 Open in Turkey, but this victory in the northern suburbs of America’s fourth largest city is the first of note since winning the PGA Tour’s 2004 Buick Invitational. Finally he had ended that long drought with victory on The Woodlands where ...

The Aussie team duo of Scott Hend and Sam Brazel could feel proud having finished runner-up in the inaugural European Tour Golf Sixes at the St. Albion club in England. Hend and Brazel were beaten 3 & 1 over the six-hole final by the Danish duo of Thornbjorn Olesen and his teammate Lucas Bjerregaard and after the Aussie duo conceded the closing hole when Brazel, and winner of the UBS Hong Kong Open, missed a putt that may have sent the match into an extra hole. It was the second taste of team ...

Buoyed by their incredible run of success at last week’s MahaSumutre Masters, a strong Thai contingent will be hoping to scale another summit when they tee it up at the MENA Tour’s Mountain Creek Open by Golf Citizen on Monday. Spearheaded by winner Jazz Janewattananond, the home players made a strong statement about the rising standard of the game in the kingdom at Banyan Golf Club, racking up four top-10 finishes in addition to a first in the amateur division, and they will look to keep ...

Wilmington, NC … Seamus Power created a PGA Tour first in moving to a share of the clubhouse lead with an impressive showing on day two of the storm-affected Wells Fargo Championship in Wilmington, North Carolina. Power took full advantage of the softer Eagle Point course in battling strong winds to work his way to the front courtesy of a gutsy one under par 71 for a five under tally. The Irishman joined American Billy Hurley 111 tied at the top near 5pm local time. It the first time Power, ...

Wilmington, NC … It is only just for one year but Paul Casey very much to a liking to the switch from Quail Hollow to Eagle Point for this year’s Wells Fargo Championship. Casey headed into the storm-affected round two of the $US 7.5m event having shot a first day two-under par 70 and being among just 80 to break par.   It is Casey’s fourth appearance in the event having missed the cut in both 2008 and 2009 while he finished T41st a year ago and also starting with a 70 but ending ...

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