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Scot Stephen Gallacher may be the second oldest teeing-up in this week’s Italian Open but he’s also in the field with a younger generation of golfers at heart. Gallacher, 48, received the last of six tournament Rome invitations shortly after finishing top-15 in last Sunday’s Abu Dhabi Challenge. The Bathgate pro already this year has found himself playing where he can, having forfeited full DP World Tour membership at the end of 2022 in not being fully exempt since a first full season in 1999. However, ...

Fifteen years ago a son of a Spanish fish farmer defied the might of the European Tour sensationally hooking a maiden victory in the oldest ‘Open’ golf tournament on Continental Europe. A then 25-year old Pablo Larrazabal left the golf world floundering, leading from start-to-finish in capturing a maiden Tour title at the 2008 Open de France title at the Le National course outside of Versailles. For the Barcelona-born Larrazabal, it was only his 16th European Tour event, having finished ...

Defending Italian Open champ Bob MacIntyre is determined to impress European captain Luke Donald for a second time in some seven months at this week’s Italian Open again on the host 2023 Ryder Cup course in Rome. Last September MacIntyre humbled reigning US Open champ Matt Fitzpatrick in capturing ‘the biggest win in my life’ in a play-off over the Englishman on the Marco Simone course to the north-east of the Italian capital. The Oban lefty did so in a field boasting 13 European Ryder Cup ...

Scot Stevie Gallacher continues to impress, showing his younger Challenge Tour colleagues how it’s done ​in the energy-sapping conditions ​in the inaugural Abu Dhabi Challenge. ​At a​ge 48 years and six months, ​Gallacher ​is the oldest in the field​, battling the extreme heat to ​produc​e​ a bogey-free score of 67 ​and mov​e​ to eight-under on the National club course. ​And no sooner had a delighted Scot handed in his scorecard and there was confirmation on the DP ...

Seasoned Scots Stephen Gallacher and David Drysdale turned back the ‘career clock’ on the opening day in heatwave conditions at the inaugural Abu Dhabi Challenge. Gallacher, 48, bounced back from 15th hole double-bogey to birdie two of closing four holes in a three-under 69 to hand Gallacher a share of 12th behind England’s Tom Lewis who signed for a 64 to lead by a shot in the Challenge Tour event on the famed National course in the UAE capital. This week is Gallacher’s first full ...

Now 15- years after attending the maiden DP World Tour event in South Korea, and I somehow find myself asking what has changed? Back in 2008, I had travelled from a European Tour co-sanctioned event in Malaysia north for the staging of the inaugural Ballantine’s Championship on the island of Jeju, located about 80 kms off the southern tip of the Korean peninsula. There had been an outcry some nine months earlier in March 2007 when the European Tour announced it had signed an agreement with ...

We don’t always get it correct but a handful of Australian newspapers had Dustin Johnson’s management team in damage-control mode following Sunday’s winner’s press conference at the close of the LIV Golf event in Adelaide. DJ is a member of the Four Aces and also including Patrick Reed, Peter Uihlein and Pat Perend with the team coming  from behind over the final round to secure the team prize at The Gange club in Adelaide. The foursome attended the traditional victory ...