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In-form Nicolas Colsaerts continues to display the golf that earned him selection in the victorious 2012 European Ryder Cup team and revealing he had replaced one of the rescue clubs in his bag with a ‘double winning’ Callaway 2-iron. After spending a week relaxing in Thailand, Colsaerts is again near the pointed end of a European Tour event in posting a six under par 66 on a rain-softened Lake Malaren course in Shanghai. And Colsaerts round could have easily been a 65 with his long birdie ...

Spain’s Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano was the first to admit it’s a strange scenario this week for the defending BMW Masters champion. Less than a week ago ‘Gonzo’, as he is more affectionately known, was teeing up in the PGA Tour’s 2014/15 McGladery Classic at Sea Island in Georgia and this week he is being showcased as the defending BMW Masters champion, and the first of the 2104 Final Four Series on the European Tour. “It does feel very strange but while my new ...

Victorious European Ryder Cup rookie hero Jamie Donaldson admits while it is mathematically possible to overhaul Rory McIlroy, the World Number One deserves ending the year also as the leading European Tour money list winner. McIlroy surprised organisers early last week in withdrawing from the opening two events of the Tour’s ‘Final Four Series’, including this week’s BMW Masters in Shanghai. The four-time Major winner’s decision to take a fortnight off to focus on preparing himself for ...

There’s no escaping the presence of Rory McIlroy in Shanghai despite the World No. 1 surprising organisers withdrawing just over a week ago from the BMW Masters. Arriving at Shanghai’s Pudong Airport there is a number of large back lit billboards promoting the event and with McIlroy, and also a now absent Henrik Stenson, forefront among seven golfers pictured swinging a club. For many kilometres either side of the Lake MaLaren host course there’s also individual player banners adorning the ...

Callaway Golf Company has split the fairway in announcing its first nine months and third quarter 2014 financial results, reflecting its continued improvements in market share, tour success, and operating efficiencies, as well as its anticipated return to profitability for the full year, which would be the first time since 2008. Despite softer than expected market conditions, Callaway Golf reported for the first nine months of 2014 a 5% increase in net sales driven by growth in woods (+6%), irons ...

England’s Joshua White created MENA Tour history posting a career-best of nine-under 62 to set up a new course record and seize early control of the GOLF CITIZEN Masters Al Ain on Monday. In imperious form off the tee, the 23-year-old White reeled off five birdies on the front nine and four on the back in his bogey-free round – which incidentally is also best score ever on the MENA Golf Tour – to move four shots ahead of a six-man group headed by Morocco’s Ahmed Marjane. The English duo ...

A pair of 66s over the weekend has seen American Ken Duke kick-start his 2014/15 season in superb manner with a four-way share of fourth place in the McGladery Championship at St. Simon’s Island, Georgia. After missing the cut in the new season opening Frys.com Championship the Arkansas-born Duke is now lying 24th on the FedEx Cup points series. The event was won by fellow American Robert Streb who picked up a first victory and also a tee time next April in the Masters. Streb closed with a ...