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Ireland’s Shane Lowry was left counting the cost of two different outside the ropes distractions in letting slip victory in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. Lowry had come from two strokes behind at the start of the final round to race to the lead in a three-hole stretch mid-round including holing his second shot for eagle at the 10th in an eventual round of 68 for a share of third place on 22-under par. England’s David Howell ended  seven-year winless drought to birdie the second ...

US Ryder Cup captain Tom Watson has hinted next year could be his last in the professional ranks. Watson is exempt for life into the Masters but the eight-time Major winner’s (British) Open Championship ’65 years of age’ exemption runs out at next July’s event at Royal Liverpool. Later next year in September Watson will look to wrestle back the Ryder Cup from Europe and what better swansong for Watson than to be first US captain to win on European soil since 1993. “I don’t know ...

England’s David Howell ended a seven-year winless drought with a play-off victory to capture the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at St. Andrews in Scotland. The former Ryder Cup star birdied the second extra hole to defeat American Peter Uihlein after both players had ended regulation play on 23-under par on the Old Course. Howell, 38 had beaten Tiger Woods in 2006 to win the inaugural HSBC Champions event while he has played more than 200 tournaments since his last victory later that year. England’s ...

Golf”s truly global player Ernie Els has hinted his days of competing both on the PGA and European Tour’s could be over after complaining of being ‘brain dead’ while competing in the recent FedEx Cup Series. In the three month period starting from the US Open in June and up to an including the FedEx Cup Play-Off Series PGA Tour members like Els can be expected to play three of the four Majors, a WGC event and all four Play Off Series events. Since the US Open at Merion Els ...

Ireland’s Shane Lowry was flying high in a ‘chopper’ after equaling the Carnoustie course re cord with an eight under par 64 on day three of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. However Lowry was left ruing setting a new course record after recording the only bogey in his round at his last hole when he missed a 30-foot par putt. Nonetheless, the reigning Portugal Masters champion found his way into a six way share of second place on 18-under par and just one behind American Peter ...

A day after needing an eagle to shoot the European Tour’s first-ever round of 59 and Florida’s Peter Uihlein sensationally holed his second shot at the 18th for eagle to snatch a two shot lead on day three of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland. Uihlein, 24 was competing on the famed Old Course at St. Andrews for a first time in his career and set up a second European Tour victory this season when his 47-yard wedge shot found the bottom of the cup in a round of 65 for a 20-under ...

Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley echoed the comments of the golf world in wishing Rory McIlroy a return to his winning ways now that he has finally sorted out his troubling management affairs. After months of denial and uncertainty McIlroy has formed his own company ‘Rory McIlroy Incorporated’ and in a ‘family run’ move similar to that of new Masters champion, Adam Scott. McIlroy had split with the Andrew ‘Chubby’ Chandler’s International Sports Management (ISM) just four months after ...