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by Bernie McGuire. Scotland’s Russell Knox has finally captured a first main Tour career victory with a brilliant success in the WGC – HSBC Champions event in Shanghai. The Florida-based Knox first had to play the last hole of his third round that he birdied before then producing a closing score of 68 to win by two shots with a 20-under par total on the Sheshan course. American Kevin Kisner, who officially shared the third round with Knox, finished runner-up with a 70 for an 18-under ...

by Bernie McGuire • His first European Tour International Schedule victory in his eighth European Tour event. • Could move into the top 30 of the Official World Golf Ranking, from 85th. • This victory beats his previous best European Tour performance of tied tenth in the 2015 Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open. • Becomes the 13th first-time winner of the 2015 European Tour season. They are: Andy Sullivan (South African Open Championship Hosted by the City of Ekurhuleni), Gary Stal (Abu ...

Scotland’s Russell Knox will cut a lone figure when he returns to the Sheshan course early Sunday morning local time to play his final third hole in the WGC – HSBC Champions event. Knox is officially trailing one shot behind American Kevin Kisner who ended his round recording a 70 for a 16-under par tally on a day interrupted by thunderstorm warnings. In second place in the clubhouse is China’s Li Haotong and American Dustin Johnson with Knox set to share the lead should he birdie ...

Portugal has a new golfing hero after Ricardo Gouveia capped an incredible season with a stunning victory in the NBO Golf Classic Grand Final, winning the Road to Oman title with the highest total earnings for a season in European Challenge Tour history. Gouveia came into the season finale as the man to catch after a remarkable year in which he had already claimed 11 top tens in 17 starts, and lived up to his headline billing with a remarkable seven under par final round of 65 – the lowest round ...

EurAsia Cup’s team Europe captain Darren Clarke has thrown down the gauntlet to his rival predicting his team can win the highly anticipated second edition of the Cup presented by DRB-Hicom and scheduled from Jan 15 to 17, next year. “I think we can win, I know we can win and I hope we will win,” said the 47-year-old Clarke in a press conference at the host venue, Glenmarie Golf and Country Club in Shah Alam. “Team Europe is coming here to win. I’ve got to beat my old ...

Shane Lowry will be chasing when he tees up in the WGC-HSBC Champions, where the Irishman is bidding to become only the second player in history to win back-to-back World Golf Championships.If he could add the WGC-HSBC Champions to the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational title he won in such memorable fashion, Lowry would join Tiger Woods in a very exclusive club of players to achieve the feat. Woods has claimed successive WGC titles on seven occasions – albeit not always in the same season – but ...

Darren Clarke created history when he became the first reigning Ryder Cup Captain to tee-up in a MENA Tour event. Clarke had flown straight from Turkey where had been competing in the Turkish Airlines Open to the UAE ahead of posting a respectable one under par 71 on the first day of the Ras Al Khaimah Classic in the UAE to be trailing five shot behind the leading duo of Faycal Serghini and Per Barth. Clarke was supposed to be joined by fellow ISM client Matt Fitzpatrick but after winning the British ...