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‘Wonderful’ Wolmer Murillo kept his nerve when it mattered most to climb to the top and capture the Mountain Creek Open by Golf Citizen on a rain-affected day here on Thursday, Starting the day two shots off the pace, the Venezuelan closed with a tidy 69, winning his eighth professional title — and the first in Asia — on five-under 211 as overnight leader Sixto Casabona-navarro of Spain faded out of contention after a final round 78. On a day when thunderstorms during the afternoon ...

Double Major winning Jordan Spieth has returned to competition for a first time since his Masters meltdown slamming as ‘absolute bull’ reporting States side on Danny Willett’s Masters triumph. Willett claimed a first Major brilliantly winning the Masters by three shots to be fitted with the famed Augusta National members green jacket. However according to Spieth that’s not how the 2016 Masters has been covered in the States. “Danny earned that victory and it really ...

Rory McIlroy is desperate to end a now 53-week winless drought on the PGA Tour at this Players Championship in Ponte Vedre, Florida. McIlroy tees up on TPC Sawgrass as an 8/1 favourite to win the Players with double Major winning Jordan Speith at 10/1 and World No. 1 Jason Day at 12/1. However after finishing T4th a week ago in the defence of his Wells Fargo Championship, it’s now one year and one week since McIlroy last won in the States. As well, McIlroy is the only player inside the top-five ...

Spain’s Sixto Casabona-Navarro is primed to honour the memory of the late Seve Ballesteros after replicating his first-round performance by shooting another sub-par round to consolidate his lead going into the final round of the Mountain Creek Open by Golf Citizen on Wednesday. It was five years ago this week Ballesteros passed away aged just 54. Starting the day one in front, the 27-year-old Spaniard carded a solid one-under 71 on the demanding Seve Ballesteros-designed course to reach four ...

Thai teenager Witchayanon Chothirunrungrueng flashed a glimpse of his precocious talent, opening with a tidy two-under 70 to lie just one shot off the pace going into the penultimate round of the inaugural Mountain Creek Open by Golf Citizen on Tuesday. Playing in his first MENA Golf Tour event, the 19-year-old amateur, and affectionately known to his fellow golfers as ‘Zoom’, raced to three-under after his first five holes and picked up another shot on the 12th, but back-to-back bogeys ...

It will be 32 days since his Masters triumph when Danny Willett returns to work on Thursday to tee-up in the Players Championship. In this period Willett’s life has forever becoming a father and being fitted with a Masters green jacket. Also in this time Willett has wowed his native England and in particular Sheffield and surrounds in the aftermath of his stunning three shot triumph at Augusta National. However that all changes on Thursday when he steps onto the first tee at TPC Sawgrass as ...

Rory McIlroy paid a heavy price for another roller-coaster tournament despite a blistering final round 66 in defence of his Wells Fargo Championship in North Carolina. Unfortunately it was just a round too late for McIlroy who sandwiched eight birdies in between bogeys at the first and last holes on the Quail Hollow course. McIlroy ended the event in a share of fourth place with American Phil Mickelson, who also shot a 66, for the Open and PGA Championship winning duo to end at seven under par. Unfortunately, ...