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Paul Lawrie brilliantly upstaged his guest and former victorious Ryder Cup captain, Jose Maria Olazabal with an ace in their challenge match yesterday(Tues) in Aberdeen. The pair played nine holes at the Paul Lawrie Golf Center  in Aberdeen. And in speaking with the Daily Record Lawrie spoke of his immense desire to return to next year’s Ryder Cup when it will be staged on home soil at Gleneagles and venue for this week’s Johnnie Walker Championship where Lawrie is defending. “The ...

Paul McGinley has used Gleneagles and the venue for next year’s Ryder Cup to launch the McGinley Foundation, a registered charity launched McGinley, and that has been announced as the fourth and final Official Charity of The 2014 Ryder Cup. The Foundation joins the three Scottish charities announced earlier this year – Friends of St Margaret’s Hospital in Auchterarder, Perth and Kinross Disability Sport, and Scotland’s family charity Quarriers – all of whose fundraising opportunities ...

Just a short distance inland from the ‘beautiful people’ playgrounds of St. Tropez and St. Maxine on the sun-splashed Mediterranean is a playground of a different kind. Beauvallon Golf Club doesn’t stand on ceremony and would not bat an eye lid if you arrived in a gleaming Ferrari or a mud-spattered mini or whether you’ve been on the front cover of a glossy magazine or the back pages of local rag. As the name implies, Beauvallon translates into beautiful valley and beautiful it is. The course ...

Golf Australia has finally confirmed what www.golfbytourmiss.com reported five days ago and that is dual Major Champion Rory McIlroy will contest this year’s Emirates Australian Open. If you go back through our NEWS stories you will notice we brought you this news mid last week. It had been brought to the notice of www.golfbytourmiss.com on day two of the PGA Championship at Oak Hill the affable 24-year old was rumored to be traveling to Sydney for a second time this year after being present ...

Spain’s Santiago Luna is over the moon after his powering his way to a one stroke victory in the SSE Scottish Seniors at the Fairmont Resort, St. Andrews Bay. Luna, 50 posted a final round 71 in bright but cold and windy conditions for a five under but par tally and one fewer than Torrance (70) and Ireland’s Denis O’Sullivan (72) on four under par. It is only the Madrid-born Luna’s second Tour victory after capturing the 1995 Madeira Islands Open in 1995 on the main Tour. However Luna ...

Ireland’s Philip Walton is on the verge of a maiden European  Tour Seniors success after day two of the SSE Scottish Seniors Open at St. Andrews Bay. Walton posted a three under par 69 to move into a fourway share of second place on four under par on a rain-lashed Torrance course. Australia’s Peter Fowler capped his round with three birdies in succession mid-round in a score of 66 and only just managed to avoid the storm to lead by a shot on five under par. Walton is tied second on four ...

Triple Major winning Padraig Harrington has crash dived to his worst PGA Tour performance in four years after easily missing the halfway cut in the Wydnham Championship in North Carolina. Harrington posted scores of 73 and 74 for a seven over par tally and seven shots shy of the halfway cut on the Sedgefield course in Greensboro. American Patrick Reed leads the field by a stroke on 11 under par after rounds of 65 and 64. That is a far cry from Harrington. Included in his second round was four birdies ...