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Fellow four-time Major winner Ernie Els believes the European Tour should not have never let Rory McIlroy leave Europe to compete full-time on the PGA Tour. Els has likened the 26-year old McIlroy to the late, great Seve Ballesteros who dominated European Tour golf winning 50 Tour titles from 1976 to 1995 Spanish Open. However Ballesteros, who passed away in 2011, captured just four regular PGA Tour titles given he never took up full membership and competed by way of invitations mostly around the ...

Spaniard Sergio Garcia revealed he has received email correspondence from the PGA Tour with regards to unruly incidents where the Spaniard was heckled by the crowd when in contention for victory at the recent Players Championship. “I received two emails and they were from the PGA Tour,” he said. “I can’t really tell you what they said but hopefully there will no more trouble.  That’s basically what they were saying. “Also I heard what Darren (Clarke) had to say yesterday about the Ryder ...

World No. 1 Rory McIlroy faces a balancing act this week of being a successful host and also capturing a first Irish Open title. McIlroy quickly put aside the embarrassment of missing the cut in last week’s BMW PGA Championship in teaming with his father, Gerry and long-time coach, Michael Bannon playing a practice round last Sunday on this week’s Royal County Down host venue. The four-time Major winner than played an 18-hole practice round on Monday ahead of the off-course formalities starting ...

World No. 1 Rory McIlroy found himself stood up and without any Pro-Am partners ahead of tomorrow’s starting Irish Open at Royal County Down in Northern Ireland. McIlroy and his three American-born amateur partners had been due to tee up at 8.20am but there was only McIlroy on the tee. He was then introduced to a big crowd gathered around the opening hole but was heard to remark, and with no sign of his playing partners. “Do you really want me to tee up,” said McIlroy. McIlroy decided against ...

Potential future Ryder Cup captain Padraig Harrington has praised the move for the 2016 European Ryder Cup process to commence in Russia. The European Tour, in an historic first, announced today the year-long process to select the European Ryder Cup team begins with the September 3rd starting M2M Russian Open in Moscow. In previous years qualifying for the European Ryder Cup Team has begun in Germany and Switzerland while for the 2014 Ryder Cup, the 2013 Italian Open heralded the start of qualifying. “It’s ...

European Ryder Cup captain Darren Clarke’s confident there’ll be no hecklers to upset Sergio Garcia should he qualify for next year’s Ryder Cup in suburban Detroit, Michigan. Garcia was heckled, booed when in contention for victory at the recent Players Championship, and with one boozed-up punter singing out a four-letter expletive as he encouraged the Spaniard to find the water down the last at TPC Sawgrass. The seven-time Ryder Cup capped Spaniard recently brushed off the incidents saying:  ...

The Irish Independent’s long-time golf correspondent Karl MacGinty has retired and the media centers on the European Tour and PGA Tour will never be the same. In fact, the Media Center at the BMW PGA Championship was very quite without the presence of ‘King Karl’. Karl is a member of the Association of Golf Writers (AGW) and was presented with a commemorative 2015 Masters flag signed by the five Irish-born players who competed earlier this year at Augusta National. It was not only ...