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Scotland’s Russell Knox has his heart set this new season on two ‘home’ majors – this week’s Players Championship and July’s Genesis Scottish Open. In an exclusive, Knox talks about the events either side of ‘The Pond’ as his two ‘biggies’ this season. Knox, 37, has been living close to this week’s host TPC Sawgrass course for near on 20-years, so for wife, Andrea and their now two-year-old cute cavapoo dog, Rusty this week it’s get to stay in your own bed week. In July, ...

Bob MacIntyre’s appearance this week at the Magical Kenya Open is being labelled by local organisers a ‘Godsend’ though the Scot may think otherwise. MacIntyre has travelled to Kenya very much looking for magic, as the tournament title boasts, as he strives to return to next month’s Masters for a third year running. The Oban lefties slide down the World Rankings contiunes, dropping a further place to be now ranked World No. 94, and needing to be inside the top-50 on the rankings, as at ...

  Here’s a super golfing statistic for us weekend golfers! Next time you’re out competing in a social with your friends and you happen to put a ball in the water, you may care to remind them if they know have many balls have found their way into water over the last 20-years at the 17th hole of the TPC Sawgrass course, and home this week to the Players Championship. Since 2003, 925 balls have been lost to the water at the island-like 17th green during the Players at Ponte Vedra in ...

Shane Lowry labelled it a career ‘milestone’ in ending a miserable run of outs to be assured of contesting all four rounds for a first time in six showings at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando. Lowry battled the bright but inceasingly windy conditions, grabbing an eagle and two birdies in a round of a two-under 70 to move well inside the top-25 at two-under in the up-graded $US 20m event at the Bay Hill club. The Offaly golfer was tied with 2018 champ Rory McIlroy, who bounced back from ...

Scot Russell Knox has elected not to contest this week’s $US 20m Arnold Palmer Invitational and instead is taking the week off to give himself a better chance of banking next week’s $US 25m Players Championship title. Knox, 37, is staring at four missed cuts in succession and should not play all four rounds of Arnie’s event, following a disappointing run over his  last three events in sitting out the weekend rounds in the Phoenix Open, the Genesis Invitational and last week’s Honda Classic. This ...

I was reading an article recently about the legacy Arnold Palmer left in terms of an autograph. Since turning pro in 1954, Palmer’s signature and his autograph were the same, and it remained like this all his life. Palmer’s autograph was like a benchmark for all autographs, so much so, he used to say that if you’re going to give a fan an autograph, make sure they can read your signature. There are also many times, as former PGA Tour star Peter Jacobsen will attest, that Palmer used ...

Scot Euan Walker is in reach of a DP World Tour career high top-10 heading to the final round of the Hero Indian Open in New Delhi. Walker, 27, produced four birdies, none better than at the 54-hole in a bogey-free 68 on the host DGF course to share 12th place and trailing just a shot adrift of 10th place, and also only three behind Dutchman Joost Luiten (68) lying fourth at eight-under. The German duo of Yannick Paul (71), at 11-under, along with his 42-year-old compatriot Marcel Siem (67) just ...