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Turnberry has reassured the golf world it is still very much on the Open Championship rota to host golf’s oldest major with the unveiling of stunning new changes to the Ailsa course. Since the staging of the 2009 Open, and won by American Stewart Cink, Turnberry has been taken over by the Trump organisation and now has been renamed as Trump Turnberry. It immediately prompted criticism in some quarters, and given Donald Trump’s very controversial stance of some matters, Turnberry should be stripped ...

It’s been just over 12 months since Turnberry was closed for major changes to the course that has played host to five Open Championship. However in the intervening period there has been an incredible amount of work undertaken at what is now Trump Turnberry. The biggest change is the 9th hole and now a stunning par 3 over water. See the photos below

Young Melbourne amateur Cameron John now has something in common with American golfing heart-throb Rickie Fowler – they’ve both won at Gullane No. 1 in Scotland. John shot a new amateur course record 63 in the morning’s third round that helped him to a stunning four-shot victory in the Carrick Neill Scottish Open Stroke Play Championship to the east of Edinburgh. Competing in superb Scottish Spring weather the 17-year-old from Melbourne held off a strong Scottish challenge from Grant ...

European Tour CEO Keith Pelley is confident a new ‘strategic alliance’ will be reached shortly with the Asian Tour so that it will be in place heading into the 2017 season. One of Pelley’s first initiatives in taking over the European Tour last August was to announce a proposal to reinforce the strengths of the two Tours by maximizing global opportunities, as well as increasing playing opportunities and prize funds for the respective memberships. The alliance was seen as a natural extension ...

Graeme McDowell is staring a fortnight on the Lake Nona practice range ahead of teeing up in his next event – the June 16th staring US Open at Oakmont. That was the scenario staring at McDowell after rounds of 69, 73, 73 and 72 that handed him a share of 26th place at one under par in the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. England’s Chris Wood earned a three-year exemption into this year’s Open Championship winning by a shot with a 69 for an eight under par tally. Sweden’s Rikard Karlberg, ...

New BMW PGA champ Chris Wood singled out Prestwick caddy Mark ‘Punk’ Crane for special praise despite stumbling his way to victory around the famed ‘Burma Road’ course at Wentworth. Wood came from three shots back and while he eagled the fourth, the Bristol-born player bogeyed three of his closing five holes in a round of 69 to win by a shot with a nine-under par total. Sweden’s Rikard Karlberg, who had beaten double Major winning Martin Kaymer in a play-off to capture last year’s Italian ...

Big-hitting Aussie Scott Hend was all set to smack a drunken spectator in the mouth on route to taking a one shot lead into the final round of the BMW PGA Championship. Hend, 43 eagled the closing hole for a second day in succession in a round of 73 for a nine under par and ending three better than playing partner, a struggling Masters champion Danny Willett who dropped five shots over his closing 10 holes in a 76 to tumble into a tie for fifth place at six under par. The eagle at 18 came with Hend ...