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Gavin Moynihan is trusting local course knowledge and fond memories of four years ago as a key to him performing well at this week’s second stage of 2023 DP World Tour qualifying in Spain. Moynihan, 28, is among a dozen Irish teeing-up on four venues and with the leading 20 at each course travelling onto next week’s final qualifying, and over six gruelling days at Tarragona, also in Spain. The Dubliner is making a second visit to this week’s host Desert Springs course, having teed-up on the ...

 Seamus Power will soon move into a new dwelling with an extra companion to place on show – the Butterfield Bermuda Championship trophy. Power’s second win in last Sunday’s brutal Bermuda weather comes 15 months after breaking through to capture the Barbasol Championship in Kentucky. It now means three trophies, including a 2016 victory in Indiana on the secondary KornFerry Tour taking pride of place in his Las Vegas abode. “It’s going to be amazing when I get back home and add the Bermuda ...

Double PGA Tour winning Seamus Power will seek the advice of three European Ryder Cup captains in a goal not to fall into any ​selection ​trap ​​that could spoil a​​​ chance of making the Rome team. Power effectively moved into third place on the ​2023 ​‘World’ points European selection points table, and with top-3 qualifiers on both the ‘European’ and ‘World’ table to win automatic selection for Luke Donald’s side.  Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm and Shane Lowry are top-3 ...

There is a strong contingent of 11 Scots teeing-up this week in the second stage of DP World Tour qualifying each with one aim – win one of the 25 spots at the end of next week’s Final Qualifying onto the main tour in 2023 David Drysdale heads the tartan brigade and teeing-up at the Desert Springs course and one of four Spanish venues that is hosing the second stage. The Borders golfer and his wife and caddy, Vicky got their first look at the course this morning and with Vicky commenting ...

  New Asia/Pacific Amateur champion Harrison Crowe may have some explaining to do next time he’s at the Home of Golf. The reason is a video that is now going viral of the Aussie golfer hitting a shot on the footpath in front of the famed Dunvegan Hotel, over houses, and onto the first tee area of the even more famous Old Course. It’s not the first time this highly illegal golf shot has been taken with double Open winning Ernie Els also believed to have played the same shot, using a 4-iron ...

Seamus Power admitted it wasn’t pretty but as they say ‘there’s no camera on the scorecard’ but then he was ‘over the moon’ in surviving a final round war of attrition to capture the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. Power fended off the challenge of American rookie Ben Griffin and then dealt with own demons to post a closing day 70 to be a one-shot winner on the severely windswept Royal Port course. Victory is the Waterford golfer’s second Tour success in 15 months ...

Scot David Drysdale was headed to Spain’s and this week’s second stage of the DP World Tour Q-School buoyed by his best finish all season, despite the disappointment of losing full 2023 Tour playing rights. Drysdale went into the final round of the Portugal Masters sharing eighth place and needing to finish second on his own to retain his Tour card for what would be a 15th straight season. ‘Double D’ and contesting his 574th Tour event, signed for a closing 68 for a 15-under par tally for ...