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The USGA has announced the opening two day groups for next week’s US Open at Pebble Beach. Past winners Tiger Woods and his management stablemate Justin Rose will join three-time major winner Jordan Spieth. Masters champion Woods, a 15-time major winner chasing the all-time record of 18 major wins by Jack Nicklaus, will start with Spieth and Rose at 2.09pm local time on Thursday and 8.24am on Friday off the 10th tee. Two-time defending champion Brooks Koepka of the United States, coming off ...

Multiple Open winner Gary Player and former European No. 1 Lee Westwood is the latest star to visit Royal Portrush ahead of next month’s much-anticipated Open Championship. Westwood arrived on Tuesday morning as the guest of the R & A to host a corporate outing for HSBC on the stunning 148th Open Championship venue. Westwood has the honour of having played in every Open Championship since making his debut since 1995 at St Andrews – that makes a total of 24 Open’s. He had ...

Graeme McDowell tees-up in this week’s RBC Canadian Open and the first of four events where he has the chance to qualify for next month’s Open Championship. McDowell joins fellow Irish Rory McIlroy, Padraig Harrington, Shane Lowry and Seamus Power in the event being played in Hamilton, Ontario. McDowell is an RBC ambassador but the event takes on more stature given its move from the week following The Open to now the week prior the U.S. Open. It’s also for this reason McIlroy is contesting ...

World No. 6 Justin Thomas is excited at making his debut in the Aberdeen Standard Investments Scottish Open on July 11-14, 2019. The 26 year old American now fellow Major winners Rory McIlroy and Henrik Stenson and his American Ryder Cup team mate Matt Kuchar, the current rankings leader on the US PGA Tour, teeing up on the famed Renaissance course near Gullane in Scotland. It’s back to where it all began for Thomas, who made his first start as a professional in Scotland at the Alfred Dunhill ...

Scottish lefty Robert MacIntyre could now purchase his mum a kitchen-making business after he grabbed the biggest pay-cheque of his career to now be Europe’s leading ‘Race to Dubai’ Scot in finishing a gallant runner-up in the Made in Denmark. The 22-year old West Highlander can stand tall taking Austrian giant Bern Wiesberger all the way to the 72nd hole before Wiesberger claimed a fifth Tour title in posting a closing 66 to win by a shot with a 14-under tally in bitterly cold ...

Darren Clarke has been honoured with the Walter Hagen Ambassador of the Game award in a ceremony at the Country Club of Rochester, and the venue for today’s concluding 2019 PGA Championship. The Walter Hagen Ambassador of the Game Award recognizes individuals who contribute to the growth of the game, and in this case Clarke is contributing to that effort by introducing the game and its virtues to juniors through his foundation.  The Award’s namesake, Walter Hagen, is the Country Club of ...

Despite being battered and bruised by Bethpage Park, Graeme McDowell returns in a month Pebble Beach for the 2019 US Open buoyed by his four-round showing in the PGA Championship. McDowell ended his first Major of the year with four birdies but also a similar number of bogeys for a final day 70 and top-40 finish on the ultra-tough Bethpage Park course on New York’s Long Island. ‘G Mac’ had birdied three of his opening five holes before the Black course jumped-up to bite him on the inward half. “My ...