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A closing hole bogey in finding the ‘drink’ was not going to sour Bob MacIntyre’s ‘Unbelievable Year’ and after also an equal best season finish of ninth on the DP World Tour in Dubai. MacIntyre was sharing third place in the year’s final event coming to the last but found the water guarding the green with his second shot and walking off with a bogey ‘6’ for an eventual share of seventh at nine-under in the DP World Tour Championship on the Earth Course at Jumeirah Estates. The ...

Whether it’s due he grew-up playing golf in windy Scotland or whatever but Russell Knox is being rewarded as the only PGA Tour player to have now contested all six Butterfield Bermuda Championships. Knox, 39 again bravely tamed the bright but extremely breezy conditions adding a second straight three-under 68 to move inside the top-20 at six-under on the exposed clifftop host Royal Port course. The Florida-based Scot capped his round with an eagle ‘3’ on the par-5 eighth hole Knox ...

Florida-based Scot Russell Knox must have felt at home on the opening day of the sixth hosting of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. Knox, and the only golfer to have played all six editions of the Bermuda tournament, braved the bright, chilly and windy conditions in posting a three- under 68 on the exposed host Port Royal course. Indeed, the wind was measured at between  18-22 mph and gusting to 32 mph while play was suspended due to darkness at 5:19 p.m. local time with 21 players to finish. EXCLUSIVE ...

Shane Lowry’s overwhelming delight in being member of last year’s victorious European Ryder Cup was there for all to see. Indeed, if you had to single out one player in Luke Donald’s side who looked the most proud it would be Lowry as his jubulation never wavered from the time he arrived at the host Marco Simone course in Rome. The Irishman has busted his backside to make his European debut in Padraig Harrington’s 2021 side and with Lowry’s disappointment in losing his ...

Scottish golfer David Law will be among 20 players who will return tomorrow (Thursday) to the Lakes course at the Infinitum Resort to resume their weather-delayed fifth rounds at Final Qualifying of the DP World Tour (DPWT) at Tarragona in Spain. Play was halted yesterday (Tuesday) at 3.50pm local time due to thunderstorm activity in the area to the south of Barcelona while an hour later the Tour advised play was being called for the day and with an 8.30am Wednesday resumption. However at around ...

Some seven weeks after leading his LIV Golf ‘Ripper’ side to a $US 14m triumph in Texas and Cam Smith tees-up as the star attraction in the $AUD 800,000 New South Wales Open being played close to Australia’s famed Murray River. It is the second of four straight ‘Down Under’ tournaments for the 2022 Open Championship winning hero and culminating with the ISPS Handa Australian Open in Melbourne. Smith’s first event back home was last fortnight where he finished third ...

Rory McIlroy has spoken ahead of this week of his desire to cut down his yearly playing schedule. The World No. 3 at the close of this week’s DP World Tour Championship will have contested 26 tournaments this year and that will be five more than last year while the last time he played anywhere near 26 events was 27 back in 2010. McIlroy’s highest number events a year remains 29 events in 2008 and in a first full year as a professional, and also a year he turned 19-years of age. He tees-up ...