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In-from Spaniard David Puig brilliantly emerged from an overnight log-jam atop of the board to stamp his class and emerge a three-shot leader heading to the weekend rounds of the Asian Tour’s inaugural St. Andrews Bay Championship. Puig had finished fourth in last week’s maiden Asian Tour stop at Close House in England and now the 21-year-old LIV Golf star in again making his presence felt with rounds of 66 and 64 to show the way to the weekend at the Home of Golf. The La Garriga-born golfer, ...

…. Fairmont Resort, St. Andrews The opening round of the inaugural Asian Tour’s St. Andrews Championship sees a log-jam of six players sharing the lead in the event being staged at the Fairmont Resort on the outskirts of the Home of Golf. Six players – Australia’s Andrew Dodt, the Indian duo of Aniban Lahiri and Veer Ahlahat, Chilean Mito Pereira, Spain’s in-form David Puig and South African Jaco Ahlers – each posted six-under 66s in bright and slightly breezy ...

…. Fairmont Resort, St. Andrews It was a double historic first earlier today not only for the Asian Tour but also for Scotland’s own John Paterson. Today marked the first occasion an Asian Tour event has been held in the Home of Golf nation and on the outskirts of St. Andrews, and also on the same day as the 70th birthday of Sam Torrance fellow Scottish-born Paterson was given the honour of hitting the opening tee shot at 6.50m on the Torrance designed course at the Fairmont Resert at ...

… Fairmont Resort, St. Andrews Paul Casey has won 21 times in around a dozen different countries in his professional career. Casey also enjoyed a dozen top-10s in the major while he also played in three of five victorious European Ryder Cup sides and a member of four of five of GB & I Seve Trophy teams. As well, Casey spent some 800 weeks among the world’s top-50, including a career high of No. 3 in 2009. And it really came as no surprise for a player who captured a maiden Tour among ...

.... Fairmont Resort, St. Andrews Sergio Garcia will this week strive to achieve something he’s not been able to do in his very illustrious career and that is to win a professional event on Scottish soil. Garcia announced himself to the golf world in capturing the 1998 British Amateur at Muirfield and then nine years later went do close to winning golf’s oldest major losing out in a play-off to Padraig Harrington at the 2007 Open Championship at Carnoustie. This week the now 43-year-old ...

Double major winning Jon Rahm will look to achieve a feat that no other Spanish-born golfer has managed and that is to end a PGA Tour season as the FedEx Cup champion. Rahm, 28, tees-up on the famed East Lake course having lost his long-running PGA Tour No. 1 position following an indifferent showing at last week’s BMW Championship and will tee-up as No. 4 on the standings. Rahm, along with Tony Finau and Xander Scheffler, have qualified for the Tour Championship in each of the last seven seasons, ...

PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan addressed the media ahead of this week’s season-ending Tour Championship sounding confident a working agreement with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund will be reached thanks to the “sincerity and intensity” of the negotiations. It was just a few months ago Monahan was facing calls to resign while a fortnight ago, just 25 players from the 70 teeing-up in the FedEx St. Jude Championship chose to attend a players meeting Monahan hosted in ...