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Houston, TX … In yet another historic MENA Tour first the 2017 MENA Tour champion will be afforded an invitation to compete in 2018’s DEAN & DELUCA Invitational, a celebrated PGA Tour event that enjoys rich tradition and history dating back to 1946 when the great Ben Hogan won the inaugural edition. Held at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth in Texas, with a $6.9 million purse the DEAN & DELUCA Invitational is the longest running PGA TOUR event at the same venue and the 10 ...

Houston, TX … Twenty years after being humbled by Tiger Woods at the 1997 Masters and Scotland’s Colin Montgomerie bluntly confesses Woods ‘finished my career’. Woods and Monty went into the third round of the Masters with Woods leading by three shots after scores of 70 and 66 and Monty in second place following rounds of 72 and 67. The Scot had commented to the media post the second day that he considered his overall experience in competing in the Majors would prove pivotal ...

Houston, TX … Little wonder Rory McIlroy reckons he knows how Phil Mickelson must feel in admitting as every year passes it will become increasingly more difficult to win the Masters and with that the coveted Grand Slam. McIlroy is presently in Augusta playing two further practice rounds (Monday and Tuesday) ahead of the April 6th start to the 2017 Masters. This year is McIlroy’ third attempt in striving to join just five other players in the history of the game to win all four Majors ...

Houston, TX … Padraig Harrington will leave his Dublin convalescing couch and join SKY Sports as part of their Masters coverage team at Augusta National. Harrington is recovering from undergoing shoulder surgery  13 days ago but has been given the all clear by doctors to cross ‘The Pond’ to get behind the SKY microphones. It will Harrington’s 16th trip to the Masters but a first time he will not be travelling to the year’s first Major Championship with his clubs since making his ‘inside ...

Austin, TX … Ross Fisher’s thrilled to have played his part in Masters golfing history ensuring a record-setting 11 England-born players will tee-up this year at Augusta National. It will be the most number of non-American born golfers from the one country to compete in the 83-year history of the Masters. Fisher’s fate also in ending a five-year Masters absence was confirmed after Denmark’s Soren Kjeldsen was comprehensively beaten 7 & 5 in his WGC – Dell Match-Play quarter-final ...

In the mid-western region of the state of New South Wales, Australia you will find some of the state’s finest rural golfing gems. First stop once leaving Sydney and crossing the Blue Mountains is the Bathurst Golf Club on the western outskirts of the city.  The course is the boyhood home to European and Australasian Tour champion Peter O’Malley and is a shining rural golf nugget, and in a town close to where gold was first discovered in Australia. (Go to:  http://www.golfbytourmiss.com/2014/03/bathurst-golf-club-an-australian-rural-golfing-gold-nugget/ ) Some ...

Austin, TX … Ross Fisher will join a new Masters record of eleven England-born players after his stunning victory over double Augusta winning Bubba Watson on day four of the WGC – Dell Match-Play Championship in Austin, Texas. The 36 year old Fisher left Watson speechless in holing a brilliant 15th hole bunker for a convincing 4 & 3 win and muscle his way into the last eight on the Austin Country Club course. Fisher, and whether or not he advances to Sunday’s semi-final, is assured ...