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Padraig Harrington is on the committee to select the next European Ryder Cup captain and in singing the praise of victorious Rome captain Luke Donald he’s strongly backing Donald to stay on for 2025. Harrington was not in Rome instead, and somewhat disappointingly, Europe’s immediate past captain spent the weekend at home, glued to the couch watching TV coverage of Europe’s successful Roman conquest. “I was thrilled with the result last week .. Oh yes”, he said. “I was at home watching ...

American and LIV golfer Peter Uihlein shared the lead on day one of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship and revealing how it came about the head of the Saudi-based PIF fund Yasir Al-Rumayyan and also head of LIV Golf  is his amateur partner for the week in Scotland. Uihlein signed for a sizzling eight-under 64 in cold and sometimes rainy conditions on the famed Old Course at St. Andrews, and end the opening day sharing the lead with Swede Sebastian Soderberg, who was out earlier on the Old Course ...

There’s no missing the sight of Alfred Dunhill Links Championship banners about the Old Course here in St. Andrews lowered at half-mast. It is a moving tribute to Sir Michael Bonallack, the former long-time Secretary of the R & A who passed away late last month. However, the sight of the flags fluttering at half-mast brought back immediate memories of cricketing legend Shane Warne. ‘Warnie’, as he affectionately known worldwide, passed away in March 2022 aged just 52, and it ...

David Drysdale enjoys a double delight heading into this week’s Asian Tour International Series Singapore. The $US 2m inaugural event is being played on the famed Tenah Merah course, a former Johnnie Walker Classic host venue (1996), and featuring major champions Charl Schwartzel and Graeme McDowell. Drysdale’s returned to the island nation buoyed by a rookie Asian Tour season best of T3rd in last week’s Taiwan Masters, a most timely effort that saw him take a big leap to 46th on ...

For a second occsaion in two years John Murphy returns to the Home of Golf inspired by a Ryder Cup. Murphy sounded energised after spending early last Friday morning to early Sunday evening glued to television cheering on Luke Donald’s Roman golfing gladiators, and including fellow Irish-born Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry, as they took down their American rivals. And why wouldn’t the Kinsale golfer be soaking-in the scenes of last Sunday afternoon, as we all were, as Europe muscled their way to ...

Tiger Woods is now being strongly tipped to take over the USA Ryder Cup captaincy reins in two years time at Bethpage Park on the outskirts of New York. As the USA reels from the nightmare of losing out in Rome, Woods’ name is now surfacing as the 2025 replacement for the hapless Zach Johnson. Johnson’s side promised so much following the Americans record-setting victory two years along the shoreline of Lake Michigan but in the heat of Rome they proved no match for Europe’s band ...

Good friend Calum Hill says Bob MacIntyre’s gladitorial effortrs in helping Europe secure victory in Rome will be inspirational to every Scottish golfer. Like most, Hill said he was glued to the ‘box’ for the three days of competition at the Marco Simone course and where the Gleneagles-attached Scot has competed in the Italian Open over two of the past three years. Hill said: “It was a fanastic win and to be honest with you, I was trying to get in some practice but just found myself on ...