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Stephen Gallacher is very hopeful of ending a third Stateside sojourn this season on a positive note with a good showing in this week’s Players Championship at Ponte Vedra, Florida. Gallacher is competing in the lucrative $US 10m event for a second year running and quietly confident of playing all four rounds after missing the TPC Sawgrass cut on debut a year ago. The Scot arrived back to Florida’s Sunshine State from San Francisco where he missed out by a stroke in making it to the last ...

Tiger Woods is not only focused on winning for a first time in some two years but also has set his sights on representing the United States at next year’s Olympic Games in Brazil. Golf will be returning to the Summer Olympics for a first time since 1904 and with Woods vying one of two players walking into the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games arena behind the Stars and Stripes. The 14-time Major winning Woods, and the world’s highest-earning sportsperson, spoke again of his desire to be present ...

Tiger Woods confessed he’s not slept since the bust-up of his relationship with Lindsey Vonn and the same day as the anniversary of his father’s passing. Woods and Vonn ended their two-year friendship last Sunday May 3rd and exactly nine years to the day since Woods father Earl Woods died in 2006. The 14-time Major winner first met Vonn at a charity event in April 2012, but it was not till Vonn was officially divorced early in January 2013 their relationship moved to another level before going ...

World No. 1 Rory McIlroy is easily the main feature golfer among promotions at Jacksonville Airport ahead of this week’s lucrative Players Championship. We spotted a few full-size posters of last week’s WGC – Cadillac Match-Play winner as you can see from the snaps below including hiding behind the information counter.

Following his convincing record-setting 10th U.S. PGA Tour with victory at the WGC – Cadillac Match-Play Championships in San Francisco, the Irish-based BoyleSports has released some ‘tasty’ specials on World No. 1 ranked Rory McIlroy. McIlroy is 7/4 to win any of the three remaining Majors in 2015 with 11/4 on offer that he will win Exactly Two and 80/1 that he can clinch the remaining three. Tiger Woods has 14 Major titles to his name and Rory McIlroy is currently 5/2 to win more ...

World No. 1 Rory McIlroy celebrated his 26th birthday a day early with a second WGC title triumph in capturing the WGC – Cadillac Match-Play Championship. After having to defeat England’s Paul Casey early Sunday morning McIlroy took care of American Jim Furyk in the semi-final and then beat big-hitting Gary Woodland 4 & 2 in the final at TPC Harding Park. So less than a month after Jordan Spieth won the Masters Tournament and emerged as the most likely rival, McIlroy reminded the ...

BMW is  helping steer Germany’s bid to host the 2022 Ryder Cup. The German motor vehicle manufacturing giant has been a strong partner on the European Tour for many years, and official partner of the Ryder Cup since 2006. The global golf player is also supporting the German bid to host the 2022 Ryder Cup. The bidding organisation RC Deutschland today travelled to the home of the PGA European Tour at the Wentworth Club, near London, to present the Bid Book to Ryder Cup Europe LLP. The document ...