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Pattana Golf Club and Resort will make its debut as one of the host venues when the MENA Golf Tour returns to Thailand in 2017 in a clear manifestation of the tour’s rising popularity index in the Far East and beyond. With Pattana coming on board, the MENA Golf Tour will have a minimum of three tournaments during its second visit to the kingdom in May as Banyan Golf Club and Mountain Creek have already committed to continue their support after successfully hosting the tour events earlier this year. “We ...

Ireland’s Shane Lowry admits constant questioning of trying to qualify for the 2016 European Ryder Cup team has been like a cloud hanging over his head. Those questions also concerning whether or not he would travel to Denmark or remain in the States this coming week surely must have led to Lowry being somewhat confused at the conclusion to Sunday’s maiden appearance in the Wyndham Championship. Lowry had arrived indicating he would be travelling to Denmark but after a closing Wyndham ...

The Irish duo of Graeme McDowell and Shane Lowry will stake their final Ryder Cup claims later this week in tournaments some 6,000 klms apart. McDowell will tee-up in the Barclays Championship and the first event of the ultra-lucrative four-event FedEx Cup Play-Off Series on New York’s Long Island. Lowry, despite some late confusion, will compete in the Made in Denmark and what is technically the final event for qualifying for the European Ryder Cup team. However, the leading nine Hazeltine qualifiers, ...

In a bizarre turnaround Shane Lowry was first going to Denmark but then he wasn’t and now he will in a goal to earn a European Ryder Cup ‘wildcard’ pick. Lowry arrives back in Dublin Monday morning local time after posting a final round 67 for an eight under par tally in the Wyndham Championship at Greensboro, North Carolina. But moments after his round Lowry spoke of the disappointment following Saturday’s third day 70 and began questioning why he was considering a 15,000 round trip from ...

Perth-born Curtis Luck became only the third Australian to capture the prestigious U.S. Amateur championship and in the process earning a start in the 2017 Masters, U.S. Open and 146th Open Championship. After being all square through 18 holes, Luck forged ahead to win winning eight holes in succession from the 20th for a convincing 6 & 4 drubbing of hometown favourite, Brad Dalke 6&4 at Oakland Hills in suburban Detroit. Luck, who only just turned 20 and had his father, Stuart acting as ...

Darren Clarke’s nine leading Ryder Cup qualifiers have been confirmed at the close of the Czech Masters. The nine, and in order of qualifying, are – Rory McIlroy, Danny Willett, Henrik Stenson, Chris Wood, Sergio Garcia, Rafa Cabrera-Bello, Andy Sullivan and Matt Fitzpatrick. Of the nine, five will be Ryder Cup first-timers namely:  Willett, Wood, Cabrera-Bello, Sullivan and Fitzpatrick. It will be the largest number of European Team rookies since six first-timers competed in the 2010 ...

Greensboro, North Carolina … Graeme McDowell birdied the closing four holes in a round of a six-under par 64 to brilliantly reignite his dream of competing in next month’s Ryder Cup. McDowell brought the crowd around the 18th green to their feet when his approach shot was long but then trickled down to just tap-in birdie distance in continuing hot and humid conditions on the Sedgefield Country Club course in Greensboro, North Carolina. The effort, and coming a day after McDowell was ...