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It is not often the TV reporter asking the questions of the winner of a golf tournament finds him or herself embraced by the new champion. That is what took place when a very tearful SKY Sports Golf Tim Barter found himself being wrapped by the arms of an equally emotional new BetFred British Masters champion in Richard Bland. You see, Bland has been coached by Barter for some 20-years of his 25-year pro career and winning at the famed The Belfry Bland ended a 478th European Tour winless drought. The ...

  Dates: May 10-16, 2021 Where: McKinney, Texas Course: TPC Craig Ranch (36-36—72/7,468 yards) Defending champion: Sung Kang (2019) Purse: $8,100,000 ($1,458,000/winner) FedExCup: 500 points (winner) Field size: 156 Format: 72-hole stroke play Things to Know Due to COVID-19, the AT&T Byron Nelson was not contested in 2020; Sung Kang set to defend his 2019 title The AT&T Byron Nelson moves to TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas, after two years at Trinity Forest Golf Club Hideki ...

Martin Kaymer shares much with Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy. For starters, the three are multiple major champions sharing nine major titles amongst them and with Kaymer a PGA Championship and US Open winner. Until recently the trio had struggled to regain winning form with Spieth ending a near four-year winless drought early last month in capturing the Valero Texas Open while it was last Sunday when McIlroy ended his own winless run of 18 months in capturing a third Wells Fargo Championship. Kaymer ...

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 ...