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Dane Thorbjorn Olesen must now come onto the European Ryder Cup selection radar after his second success in 10 months at the inaugural Thailand Classic. Olesen, 33, stormed his way to a four-shot success, capping his final round with three birdies in succession from the 13th hole, on route to closing 66 and a 21-under-par tally. The win, and Olesen’s 14th pro career title, should see him jump nearly 30 spots to 91st on the World Rankings while he picked-up four spots to 12th on the ‘European’ ...

    The Genesis Invitational is the 16th event of the 2022-23 PGA TOUR Season and third designated event, featuring 23 of the top 25 players in the Official World Golf Ranking (39 of top 50), the top 30 players in the FedExCup standings and all 13 players that have won on TOUR this season. The field was expanded from the original size of 120 players to 130 to include all players defined as eligible in the tournament regulations. This is the second week in a row that the field has been ...

Tiger Woods has singled out good friend Rory McIlroy for praise ahead of Woods return to competition at this week’s Genesis Invitational in suburban Santa Monica. Woods, and as tournament host, is returning to a regular PGA Tour event for the first time since the October 2020 Zozo Championship that was staged to the north of Los Angeles. In that time, McIlroy has won six times, including five victories on the PGA Tour and more-recently a third success at the DP World Tour’s Hero Dubai ...

Tiger Woods has expressed uncertainty as currently being on the menu for this year’s Masters Champions Dinner at Augusta National. The annual dinner is two months away but the five-time Masters winning Woods, and in returning to PGA Tour competition at this week’s Genesis Invitational and a first ‘regular’ Tour event since October 2020, was asked his thoughts ahead of this week’s Genesis Invitational in attending the Augusta dinner where half-a-dozen fellow Masters winners ...

… Muscat, Oman Allowing players to wear shorts in this early part of a new season is to be applauded. The Asian Tour has now ruled to allow their players the choice in all but a few events to wear shorts in the sauna-like conditions of the Middle East and then when the Tour heads into the heat and extreme humidity of Asia. You can look back to November 2016 when the Sunshine Tour and European Tour first allowed the wearing of shorts for all days of a tournament at Leopard Creek, and venue for ...

…. Muscat, Oman England’s Steve Lewton can be proud of his efforts in finishing fourth despite the hurt of a mid-round nightmare over the final round of the International Series Oman. Lewton, 39, posted a closing round 71 in the continuing blustery conditions that eventually saw just 12 players break par over the four days from an original starting line-up of 132 taking to the stunning Al Mouj course in Muscat. The six-time tour winning Lewton had missed the cut a week earlier at the ...

…. Muscat, Oman Japan’s Takumi Kanaya has brilliantly stormed his way to success in the inaugural International Series Oman at the Al Mouq course in Muscat. Kanaya, 24, won a fourth pro career title and a first outside his native Japan with scores of 69, 71, 67 and a closing 71 in continuing windy conditions to win by four shots on the course laid out along the Gulf of Oman shoreline. Kanaya burst onto the world stage as an amateur, and emerging from the smoke and haze from serious bushfire ...