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  Scotland’s David Drysdale posted a closing round of 71 to muscle his way among the leading 24 qualifiers heading to next fortnight’s Asian Tour Q-School final in Thailand. Drysdale, 47, shared 14th place at the close of Section C Asian Tour qualifying among 119 starters on the famed Blue Canyon course where in 1998 Tiger Woods, as the then Masters champion and his first major, overcame an eight shot deficit on the final day, shooting a 65 to beat Ernie Els in a play-off and capture ...

Double Tour winning Ewen Ferguson will take the hour’s drive south to Abu Dhabi this coming week and his first New Year competition steps that could hopfully lead to him boarding a charter flight later this year to Rome. Ferguson, 26, has been in Dubai since a week prior to Christmas working on his game before he joins fellow Scot Bob MacIntyre in the 10-man GB & I team to tackle a European side in the inaugural Hero Cup. The Hero Cup, akin to the Seve Trophy that ran from 2000 to 2013, starts ...

“Aloha e Simona. He mea maikai ke hookipa ia oe i Hawaii nei”. With thanks again to Google even my Hawaiian is superb with this greeting translating to: “Hi there Simon. It is good to welcome you back to Hawaii”. For a second year in succession Seamus Power returns in the first week of January to the Hawaiian island of Kapalua a champion, teeing-up at this week’s ‘winners only’ Sentry Tournament of Champions. And in a career first, Power will proudly ...

  ‘Madness!’ The word the newly-wedded Collin Morikawa singled out in congratulating the double major champ on his recent return to competition, and suggesting if there’s a word to describe what we’ve witnessed in the men’s professional game this past year. “Madness, I would say sums-up the year given everything that has been going on in men’s golf,” he said competing at the recent Hero World Challenge. The men’s pro game in 2022 still celebrated four major winners ...

​ Here’s a golfing fact just three days out from the New Year and that is to advise today, 29th December marks 100 days to tee-off in the 2023 Ma​s​ters. Many of our readers will probably be rugged-up somewhere striving to fight off the winter chill or maybe there’s those lucky enough to be lazing beside the pool and with all not overly concerned with the distant staging of what will be the 87th hosting of the Masters. However, what will be most interesting will be a first look at the ...

In speaking recently with Jordan Spieth he revealed a wonderful tribute he has in place within his Texas home to the late, great sports star Shane Warne. It was just over seven years ago, Spieth and Warne met for the first time in the pro-am ahead of the 2015 Emirates Australian Open at the Australian Club in Sydney. Spieth was the reigning World No. 1 arriving into Australia’s oldest city as the winner earlier in the year of The Masters and the US Open, along with capturing the Valspar Championship, ...

  ​It’s an utter disgrace as I posted on social media that the BBC has now formally snubbed 2022 US Open champion, Matthew Fitzpatrick as a nomination for their ill-named ‘Sports Personality of the Year’ award. Fitzpatrick, 28, brilliantly became the first British golfer since Danny Willett won the 2016 Masters, to triumph at the game’s highest level following his spectacular fairway bunker shot down the final hole at Brookline. It was a month ago that Fitzpatrick had ...