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In less than a week triple Major winning Padraig Harrington has climbed from last in ‘Putting’ stats at last week’s Players Championship in Florida to into the top-1o after needing just 25 putts in posting a two under par 70 on day one of the Wells Fargo Championship. American Gary Woodland, and runner-up to Rory McIlroy in last fortnight’s WGC – Cadillac Match-Play Championship in San Francisco, topped the least number of putts on day one at Quail Hollow with just 22 putts. Fellow ...

Golf’s leading ranked Rory McIlroy was singing the praise of Leona Maguire and the first Irish-born women’s amateur World No. 1. McIlroy hasn’t had the pleasure of meeting Maguire and the 20-year Slieve Russell sensation but he’s admired her career and with the Duke University freshman moving to the top of the rankings in capturing a third NCAA title. “Leona becoming the Number One ranked ladies amateur is a fantastic achievement and though I have not met her or spent that much time with ...

Martin Laird is hopeful he will have locked in qualifying for this year’s Open Championship before the pressure of securing an Old Course tee time a week before at the Aberdeen Assert Management Scottish Open. The smile returned to Laird’s face when he birdied two of his closing four holes to get back to par on the opening day of the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow. Laird, who resides about an hour’s drive from the suburban Charlotte course, was struggling somewhat at two over par ...

World No. 1 Rory McIlroy let slip a solid opening round with a sloppy penultimate hole double bogey in the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina. McIlroy was well inside the top-10 in the $US 7m event when found water guarding the green at the par three, 17th on route to posting a two under par 70. The World No. 1 then put his third shot to seven feet before two-putting for a ‘5’. It had been a solid display by the 2010 Wells Fargo champion posting six earlier birdies but also ...

After losing out in a play-off less than a week ago in the Players Championship and Sergio Garcia hopes to build on his remarkable record on home soil this week at the Open de España. The Spaniard has won five of his 11 European Tour titles on home soil – although only the first of those five back in 2002 came in his national Open. The 35 year old Ryder Cup star said: “It’s great to come back to Spain, and play at the Spanish Open – my own Open in my own country. I’m excited about it ...

World No. 1 Rory McIlroy has committed to contesting  the Frys.com Open and the opening event on the 2015/16 PGA Tour schedule. Event organisers have waited  a long time to announce McIlroy’s appearance and they did so this wee with the four-time Major winner to tee up for a first time in his career in Napa, California and at the Silverado Resort and Spa from October 14-18. The event is being staged the same week as the European Tour’s Portugal Masters at Villamoura. “It’s an exciting ...

It was earlier this year triple Major winning Padraig Harrington emerged victorious from the Bear Trap to capture a second Honda Classic title. And since then there has been PGA Tour events boasting the ‘Blue Monster’, ‘The Snake Pit’ and more recently he returned to The Masters to experience ‘Amen Corner’. This week at the Wells Fargo Championship it’s The Green Mile. It is the last three holes on the Quail Hollow course – the par 4 16th, the par 3 ...