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Martin Slumbers, the Chief Executive of The R&A, has issued the following message to fans. “As we look forward with increasing optimism, and continuing caution, to an exciting summer of sport in the UK, I would like to update you on our planning for The 149th Open at Royal St George’s from 11-18 July 2021. “The situation with the Covid-19 pandemic continues to improve in the UK and the rapid roll-out of the vaccine programme gives us growing confidence that we will be able to welcome ...

Rory McIlroy revealed a neck injury almost forced him out of the Wells Fargo Championship before finally ending an 18-month winless drought but only after superbly avoiding near disaster on the final hole of the Wells Fargo Championship in North Carolina. McIlroy, and no thanks to an errant driver that included landing within a lateral water hazard off the tee on 18 and forced into taking a penalty drop, closed with a final round 68 to win by a shot with a 10-under par at Quail Hollow. Texas-based ...

South African sensation Garrick Higgo has joined Tiger Woods in the records books with victory at the Canary Islands Championship. Higgo, 21, posted an ace and seven birdies in a closing 64 to win by six shots with a 27-under par victory tally on the spectacular clifftop Costa Adeje course at Tenerife. The Joburg-born Higgo’s winning total was just two shots shy of matching fellow South African who owns the Tour 72-low of 29-under set at the 2003 Johnnie Walker Classic in Perth, Australia. It had ...

Rory McIlroy has ended a dismal run of two missed cuts with a fighting 66 to be just two shots off the lead on day two of the Wells Fargo Championship in North Carolina. McIlroy grabbed six birdies and dropped just one shot to jump 66 places and into a then share of seventh place at four-under par in the Euro 6.6m event on the Quail Hollow course. The two-time former Wells Fargo champ muscled his way to the near the top hitting just five of 14 fairways and also having arrived in suburban Charlotte ...

The Tartan trio of Calum Hill, Richie Ramsay and Connor Syme are primed to strike being just two shots off the lead heading to the weekend rounds of the Canary Islands Championship. Spaniard Adi Arnaus birdied six of his closing seven holes in a score of 65 to lead by one shot at 14-under from South African Garrick Higgo, and with the recent Tenerife Open champ finishing birdie, eagle in a 63 to be at 13-under par on the spectacular clifftop Costa Adeje course on Tenerife. Hill and Ramsay, each with ...

Organisers are confident players affected by food poisoning will be fit enough to take their place in the 48th edition of the Walker Cup. The USGA and R & A has taken all precautions with regards the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic organisers have not countered on food poisoning. The biannual teams event featuring the best amateurs from Great Britain and Ireland tackling the best of the Americans officially gets underway tomorrow n the ultra-exclusive Seminole course at Jupiter in Florida. However, ...

Rory McIlroy is returning to competition for a first time since last month’s Masters but lost amid talk of the Special Golf League and the Tour’s Player Impact Program is his superb record of success at Quail Hollow and venue for this week’s Wells Fargo Championship. Eleven years ago, McIlroy celebrated the first of now 18 PGA Tour victories and posting a new course record 62 on the final day to capture the then 2010 Quail Hollow Championship. Five years later, McIlroy stormed ...