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Defending Masters champion Jordan Spieth revealed his grandfather, Don will caddy for him in next week’s Masters Par 3 Contest. The now 73-year old Donald Spieth had been one of the most excited to witness Spieth win last year. The Masters winner had grown up in Texas but both his parents, Shawn and Chris (Julius) Spieth, were raised in the Lehigh Valley and graduated from Saucon Valley High School. They get back to the Lehigh Valley on occasion for family gatherings, and Jordan played a ...

While Lee Westwood appears lukewarm in matching Nick Faldo’s Ryder Cup appearance record but he’s shot both arms in the air declaring he’ll be seeking the 2020 European Ryder Cup Captaincy. Westwood is a veteran of the past nine Ryder Cups since making his debut in the victorious 1997 side at Valderrama but is still two European team caps shy of Faldo’s all-time record. As well, having won 21 Ryder Cup points, Westwood is also four adrift also of Faldo’s all-time European record for ...

Scotland’s Sandy Lyle has recruited a Mexican ex-boxer, ex-caddy and fellow Champions Tour pro in Esteban Toledo to caddy for him in next week’s Masters. Toledo, and now aged 53, has dreamed for nearly 30 years he’s been a pro of competing at the Masters. However the closest the ex-boxer came to walking the fairways of Augusta was finishing second twice on the PGA Tour and having that dream cut short knowing only a victory would earn a Masters invitation. “It’s cool and I can’t ...

Florian Praegant produced a solid birdie-birdie finish to maintain his two-shot lead going into the final round of the inaugural El Jadida Championship by HLO in Morocco. Playing in the day’s very first group, the in-form Austrian took advantage of slightly more receptive conditions and returned a neat three-under 69 to reach seven-under for the tournament, setting himself up nicely for his maiden title on England’s Andrew Marshall backed up his opening 70 with a 69 to occupy second on ...

Double WGC – Dell Match-Play champion Jason Day is envious he will never get to play in the Ryder Cup. Day stamped himself as the game’s ‘Match-Play King’ in winning last Sunday in Austin, Texas, and two years after winning the same event in Arizona. Of course, Day is no stranger to match-play competition having grown up in Australia playing the match-play format of the game. He excelled in capturing a number of amateur tournaments that included match-play including a stunning 2004 season ...

Houston, Texas …. Four-time Major winning Rory McIlroy reckons he can boost chances of capturing next week’s Masters by avoiding the ‘hassle and distraction’ of playing in the Par 3 Contest held on the eve of the year’s first Major. In seven prior Augusta National appearances McIlroy’s skipped the Par 3 Contest just once. That was in 2011 when he went into the final round of only a third Masters leading by four shots, and while McIlroy still led with nine to play, he imploded ...

Austrian Florian Pragant shot a bogey-free four-under 68 to seize the early advantage in MENA Golf Tour’s inaugural El Jadida to the south of Morocco. The 32-year-old Austrian birdied his very first hole and picked up another three shots on the back nine to cap a good day at work, two shots ahead of England’s Andrew Marshall and three clear of Craig Hinton, also of England, and Sweden’s Morocco’s Yassine Touhami led the amateur division, carding a level-par 72, three clear of his compatriot ...