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Jason Day now has one fan for life. The newly-crowned PGA Champion surprised one youngster on his return to competition since capturing last fortnight’s Major. Day was on the Planfield Country Club driving range, and venue for this week’s Barclays Championship, and was being asked by adoring new fans if he would sign autographs. The Australian indicated to the youngsters he would do so in a short while and when he did Day walked over carrying a 52-degree Cleveland wedge in his hand. He ...

Tiger Woods is to be congratulated in the manner he conducted himself during his first appearance in the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina. From the moment he arrived on Tuesday afternoon to play a practice round with eventual three-time champion, Davis Love 111 to he birdied the final hole in what was a disappointing last day level par 70, Woods could not have been more engaging. He signed autographs and had his picture taken throughout much of Wednesday’s Pro-Am and the ...

An 11th hole triple-bogey sadly brought down the curtain on his PGA Tour season at the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina. A sell-out crowd, and plenty dressed in Woods’ traditional red ‘power’ last day colour, failed to ignite Woods towards the victory or lone second place he needed to qualify for this week’s FedEx Cup Play-Off Series in New Jersey. Woods did birdie four of his closing six holes to eventually walked off with a level par round of 70 for a share of 11th place ...

Triple winning Wyndham Championship winner Davis Love 111 insists as USA Team captain he would compete in next year’s Ryder Cup should he finish among the leading three Hazeltine qualifiers. Love 111 at 51-years of age became third oldest winner on the PGA Tour in shooting a final round 64 and win by a stroke with a 17-under par tally on the Sedgefield Country Club course in suburban Greensboro, North Carolina. It was also Love 111’s 21st Tour victory and what he later described as one of the ...

The Australian pair of Daniel Gaunt and Terry Pilkadaris had cause to celebrate after securing their best-ever European Tour finish in sharing second place in the Made in Denmark tournament. Their effort comes a week after Jason Day captured the PGA Championship while it is some 18 years after Gaunt and Pilkadaris shared leading ‘medal round’ honours in the 1997 Australian Amateur. England’s David Horsey was never headed in leading from start to finish and capture a fourth Tour ...

Australia’s Adam Scott seems in urgent need of a replacement caddy for Kiwi Steve Williams. For a first time in his career, the 2014 Masters winner, has long-time coach and fellow Aussie Brad Malone on the bag for this week’s Wyndham Championship here in Greensboro, North Carolina. Scott commenced the year with South African Mike Kerr calling the shots but the arrangement clearly wasn’t to Scott’s liking when he arranged for Williams, who had caddied for Scott when he became ...

US Ryder Cup Captain Davis Love 111 had delivered Tiger Woods a huge boost believing the struggling star can qualify automatically for his Oakland Hills team. Woods has not played in a Ryder Cup since he conceded a ‘half’ to Italy’s Francesco Molinari moments before Love’s team lost the ‘Miracle at Medinah’ in 2012. However Woods has been a big part of the US Ryder Cup task force set-up in the wake of Phil Mickelson’s damming comments post Gleneagles. And it’s in those discussions ...