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Darren Clarke still proudly lays claim to being the first player to have competed at Castle Stuart, and host for this week’s Scottish Open, who then went onto the following week to win the British Open. His good friend, Ernie Els was the second and heads to Muirfield next week as defending champion. And while Clarke has struggled to show anywhere near the form that helped him lift the famed Claret Jug at Royal St. Georges there was is no denying his enthusiasm to become Ireland’s second double ...

The US Open winning duo of Rory McIlroy and Justin Rose have been familiarising themselves with next week’s British Open host venue at Muirfield. Both spent Monday and Tuesday playing separate practice rounds while Rose was again out on the east of Edinburgh course yesterday (WED). While it will be a first Muirfield Open for McIlroy, Rose participated in the 2002 Open finishing in 22nd place. Shane Lowry sent his caddy, Dermot Byrne over to Muirfield on Monday ahead of today’s commencing Scottish ...

Scotland’s contingent heading to next week’s Open Championship has been boosted to nine following the release of the names of a further eight players qualifying off the World Rankings. The names of the eight players were released today by the R & A and are as follows: Jonas Blixt – Sweden Martin Laird – Scotland Fredrik Jacobson – Sweden Marc Leishman – Australia Graham DeLaet – Canada Kyle Stanley – USA Chris Wood – England Ken Duke – USA Laird now joins eight other ...

Ryder Cup winning star, Nicolas Colsaerts is the latest European to join Tiger Woods at Excel Sports Management. Colsaerts confirmed on his website that he and talented Belgium-born compatriot, Thomas Pieters have signed with the Mark Steinberg run sports agency. The Brussels big-hitter posted the following on his website:  “Enjoyed this sunny weather in Brussels and the company of Lance Young from Excel Sport, a company we will work together, a good partnership that we have already experienced ...

According to reports one of the famed Torrey Pines courses is going to be renamed – The Tiger Woods Golf Course. Torrey Pines boasts two golf courses overlooking the Pacific Ocean and where Woods has won seven times, including earlier this year in capturing the Farmer’s Insurance Open. Woods is the tournament’s all-time-leading money winner with more than $5.7 million in earnings there and with local San Diegan Phil Mickelson is next at $3 million. The largest margin of victory — ...

South African Richard Sterne may have suffered the disappointment of finishing second in the French Open but he’s celebrating after securing top spot among the five Open Championship qualifiers. Sterne ended-up four shots behind new World No. 6 Graeme McDowell but moments later he secured a place into next week’s Open Championship. The close of the French Open meant the close of qualifying off the 2013 Race to Dubai money list and with the leading five, not otherwie exempt into Muirfield, ...

Graeme McDowell emerged from an hour long fog delay to also end a run of two missed cuts and remain in contention at the French Open on the outskirts of Versailles. McDowell posted his second straight two-under par 69 to move to four under par to share fifth place and just two strokes behind Paraguay’s Fabrizio Zanotti (68) who heads the field on six under par. Three players – The Danish duo Soren Kjeldsen (68) and his in-form compatriot Thomas Bjorn (69) along with South African Richard Sterne ...