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FedEx Cup Play-Off Series leader Hunter Mahan has defended criticism of Canadian-born coach Sean Foley after Tiger Woods announced he was splitting working with Foley. Woods decision not to further work with Foley has been seen in many circles as a rebuttal on the part of the 14-time Major winning Woods in that he has not captured a Major since Foley began working with him four years ago. The announcement of the split came just a day after Mahan, who also works with Foley, ended a two-and-a-half ...

World No. 1 Rory McIlroy has doused any burn out fears ahead of the Ryder Cup declaring to European captain Paul McGinley ‘put me in every Gleneagles match’. McIlroy will tee up later today (FRD) in the opening round of the $8m Deutsche Bank Championship at TPC Boston and the second of the four FedEx Cup Play-Off Series. It is also McIlroy’s sixth event in seven weeks and when including the next two events in Denver and Atlanta, he will have played eight of nine weeks since the Scottish Open ...

Stephen Gallacher is determined to show to European Team captain Paul McGinley he’s up to the task of finishing first or second in this week’s Italian Open. A top-two finish would sent the Scot into the top-nine automatic qualifiers and into McGinley’s Gleneagles side. With just this week’s Italian Open left in the 12-month long qualifying process and the player who lives the closest to Gleneagles than anyone in the European Team mix will be looking to dislodge former ...

You’ve probably heard many of these sayings before but after an already very long season, and with still some 10 events to report on in 2014 including this week’s Deutsche Bank Championship, here as a humorous sidelight is the Golfing Gospel according to St. Callaway. 1. Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. — Grantland Rice2. Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players ...

Rory McIlroy has confirmed he will contest the closing three events in the FedEx Cup Play-Off Series. There was uncertainty if McIlroy would skip next week’s Barclays Championship in Denver however the four-time Major winner expressed extra reason in wanting to be present in the ‘Mile High City’. “I was thinking about missing Denver but I feel fine, I feel fresh and I have no problem playing a lot of golf,” he said. “So I am 90% certain I am going to be in Denver. “One of the reasons ...

World No. 1 Rory McIlroy is glad he’s not in Paul McGinley’s shoes with just a week before the European Team captain announces his three Gleneagles ‘wildcard’ picks. While McGinley faces the anxiety of who to pick and who he leaves out, McIlroy was today (MON) relaxing courtside at Flushing Meadow but not watching former fiancée Caroline Wozniacki and instead cheering on  now good friend Andy Murray in his U.S. Open round encounter, and with the Scot winning in four sets. McIlroy was ...

American Hunter Maham got his Barclays Championship victory off to a bizarre start in breaking in  half the gleaming crystal trophy. Soon after being handed the trophy, Mahan posed for several photos with officials, volunteers, his wife and daughter and many others. And before leaving the 18th green for his victorious press conference, Mahan posed for one last photo with David Finn of Ramsey. As he knelt next to the 21-year-old Finn, who has muscular dystrophy, Mahan set the trophy down hard on ...