Paul Dunne Celebrates One Year In The Pro Ranks But Now Facing Anxious Fortnight.
Crail, Scotland …
A day after celebrating one year as a pro and Paul Dunne is facing an anxious fortnight’s wait to know if he’s done enough to wrap-up his 2017 European Tour card
Dunne was in the process of clearing out his locker at Sunday’s concluding Alfred Dunhill Links Championship when fellow Irishman Shane Lowry arrived at the St. Andrews clubhouse having been in the group behind Dunne.
Lowry’s first task was to ‘rub-in’ the fact he’d beaten Dunne albeit by a stroke ...
G Mac’s ‘Love/Hate’ Affair With The Old Course Continues Last Day Dunhill Links.
St. Andrews, Scotland ….
Graeme McDowell’s love-hate relationship with the Old Course at St. Andrews continued on the final day of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.
McDowell was just inside the top-10 in playing the famed 17th ‘Road Hole’ but then taking a double bogey before a long birdie at the last in a round of 69 to share 15th place at 11-under par.
It left McDowell trailing 12 shots adrift of England’s Tyrrell Hatton who clinched a maiden European Tour title with ease by ...
Masters Winning Caddy Steals Danny Willett’s Dunhill Links Limelight.
St. Andrews, Scotland …
Three traits to being a good caddy – turn-up, keep-up and shut-up!
Well the caddy to Masters champion Danny Willett added another a unique chapter to the caddying manual with Jonathan Smart holing a four foot putt, with Willett as his amateur partner, to win the US$50,000 first prize in the Alfred Dunhill Links Team Championship at St Andrews.
Willett, who usually has Smart as his caddie in every other week of the golfing year, raised his arms in triumph when ...
Richie Ramsay Jokes His Wife Was No ‘Hazeltine Heckler’ When They Met At 2006 U.S. Amateur
Carnoustie, Scotland …
Scotland’s Richie Ramsay joked his now wife, Angela was not a ‘Hazeltine Heckler’ when he met her during the course of his 2006 U.S. Amateur triumph.
Watching TV coverage of last week’s Ryder Cup brought back fond memories for the Edinburgh-based Ramsay who became just the third Scot, and a first since 1898, when he defeated American John Kelly at Hazeltine National a decade ago.
“I watched a bit of the Ryder Cup and it was really good,” ...
Nagging Back Injury Side-Lines Justin Rose For Eight Weeks.
Carnoustie, Scotland …
Rio Olympic Games Gold medal winning Justin Rose has ruled himself out of competition for next eight weeks to fully recover from a nagging back injury.
Rose, who was due to contest next week’s European Tour’s British Masters north of London, indicated via Twitter he’s been suffering from a disc herniation that initially side-lined him from the Players Championship earlier this year.
Then after recently competing in the BMW Championship at Indianapolis, and his final ...
McDowell Fears For His Family As Hurricane Matthew Bears Down On Florida Coastline.
Carnoustie, Scotland …
Former US Open champion’s Graeme McDowell’s return to the European Tour was focused more on Hurricane Matthew and fears for his Florida-based family.
No sooner had McDowell posted a two over par 74 in bright but windy conditions on day one of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland and he was on the phone to his wife in Orlando, Florida.
The Kennedy Space Center and the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station located just east of Orlando are braced for the onslaught ...
Harrington Rules Himself Out Of 2018 Ryder Cup Captaincy .. “I Want To Be Playing In Paris, Not Captaining!”
Carnoustie, Scotland …
Hazeltine vice-captain Padraig Harrington returned the European Tour virtually ruling himself out in replacing Darren Clarke as 2018 Ryder Cup captain in Paris.
It’s been less than a week since the European Team lost by six points to the Americans in Minnesota and already there’s strong discussion as to who will replace Clarke.
The 2018 Captain will be selected early next year when European Tour CEO, Keith Pelley along with the past two Captains in Paul McGinley (2014) ...
