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Ricardo Santos will take a four-shot lead into the final round at the Rolex Trophy as he goes in search of his second Swiss win of the 2019 European Challenge Tour season at Golf Club de Genève. The  very affable 36-year-old Portuguese-born golfer, and brilliant winner of the 2012 European Tour Madeira Islands Open, captured the Swiss Challenge Presented by Swiss Golf in June and is in pole position to seal a second victory in Switzerland after recording an eight under par round of 64 to lead ...

Rory McIlroy agonised in letting slip a ‘double’ share of the lead in posting a four-under par 66 for the bigger picture of being nine-under on the opening day of the Tour Championship in Atlanta. McIlroy grabbed five birdies, and should have seized three to four others including not even hitting the hole at the last for par, in very hot conditions at the PGA Tour season-closing event on the East Lake course. It left the current World No. 3 trailing two shots behind fellow former Tour ...

Rory McIlroy reckons he’s had about enough of slow play.    This was the reaction from the four-time Major winner when asked to comment on the European Tour’s 4-point plan to help eradicate Tour tortoises  ahead of this week’s PGA Tour season-ending Tour Championship at East Lake in Atlanta McIlroy has long been an outspoken player when it comes to pace of play on the PGA Tour, and he’s made this point also known as a member of the Tour’s Player Advisory Committee. “I ...

Rory McIlroy will definitely never play the part of get a part in any movie boasting the famed catch-phrase ‘Show Me The Money!’ McIlroy has revealed, and ahead of teeing-up in this week’s mega-millions, Tour Championship, just how important it is to him to enrich the lives of those around him rather than feed a mega-million Dollar bank account. A year after playing the role of a silent partner to Tiger Woods in the final round in Atlanta, and as Woods emotionally ended a more than five-year ...

The European Tour has announced what is calls as a ‘concrete’ four-point plan aimed at tackling the issue of slow play in professional golf. The plan, which will be implemented at the start of the 2020 season, was approved by the European Tour’s Tournament Committee in July and fine-tuned over the past month. It will focus on four key areas: regulation, education, innovation and field sizes. Key to the regulation changes will be a player only having to breach the time allowances twice ...

Rory McIlroy was headed to Atlanta while Graeme McDowell was bound for home in Orlando and Shane Lowry arrives in Dublin tomorrow morning (MONDAY) with the Claret Jug following three very different outcomes in the BMW Championship in Chicago. McIlroy’s PGA Tour season, and for a sixth straight season, will wind-up later this week in the Tour Championship at East Lake to the east of the Georgia capital and this after the four-time Major winner posted a final round 71 for an 11-under par total and ...

Rory McIlroy heads to the final two rounds of the BMW PGA Championship clearly looking to get into the overtaking lanes in the penultimate FedEx Cup PGA Tour season. McIlroy picked-up 14 places on the leaderboard and moved into a share of 11th place at eight-under par thanks to a fighting second day 67 on the Medinah course in suburban Chicago The World No. 3, and not for a first occasion in recent months, bogeyed his opening hole but then superbly completed his closing dozen holes in six-under ...