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For a second Major Championship round in succession, Francesco Molinari finds himself grouped with Tiger Woods. The duo, along with reigning PGA Championship winner, Brooks Koepka are grouped for the opening two rounds of the season’s now second Major. Molinari played alongside Woods during the final round at Augusta National but letting slip all chance of a first Masters triumph in finding water guarding the green at both the 12th and 15th holes. There is many suggesting had not the champion ...

It’s the first shots in the 2020 Ryder Cup phony war with USA Ryder Cup captain, Steve Stricker not about to be follow rival Padraig Harrington’s lead and opt for the same number of ‘wildcard’ picks for their Whistling Straits showdown. Harrington already has stamped his finger print on his European Team captaincy but Wisconsin’s favourite golfer is not about to follow suit. Instead of following the Dubliner who has opted for just three ‘wildcards’, Stricker ...

2019 PGA Championship, Bethpage Park ‘Black Course’ Things to know Bethpage State Park to host the PGA Championship for the first time (two U.S. Opens, two THE NORTHERN TRUSTs) Tiger Woods (2002 U.S. Open), Lucas Glover (2009 U.S. Open) and Patrick Reed (2016 THE NORTHERN TRUST) have won events at Bethpage and are in the field The PGA Championship is Tiger Woods’ first opportunity to tie Sam Snead’s record for 82 PGA Tour wins Brooks Koepka aims to become first to successfully ...

Fellow PGA winner, John Daly insists if Tiger Woods was in full possession of the facts he would sympathise with Daly’s knee issue. Daly, 53 is suffering with arthritis in his right knee, and as he is allowed he applied to use a motorised cart through the Americans with Disabilities Act and claimed diabetes also contributed to his special request. The PGA of America considered the request and agreed to allow Daly the use of a cart, and as he has been doing on the PGA Champions Tour. Woods was ...

European Ryder Cup captain Padraig Harrington sounded a warning to any potential 2020 European Ryder Cup hopeful and that is if you are seeking a Whilstling Straits ‘wildcard’ pick then you better tee-up in the 2020 BMW PGA Championship. This September’s BMW PGA Championship is the start of the 2019 Ryder Cup qualifying process and the 2020 staging of the event is closing qualifying event to make the European Team “Nobody has an excuse not to turn up,” said Harrington ...

Tiger Woods has always been good when it comes to the one sentence responses when it comes to someting controversial. We saw that today when the 15-time Major winner visited the media centre ahead of this week’s PGA Championship at Bethpage Park. Woods was asked his thoughts on fellow PGA winner John Daly being given approval to ride on a motorised buggy at this week’s event. The 53-year old Daly, and winner of the 1991 PGA Championship was last week granted exemption to used a motorised ...

It’s official!  Rory McIlroy will travel to Japan next year to represent Ireland in the 2020 Olympic Games. After all the uncertainly with many of the world’s leading golfers ahead of the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil, along with fears of the Azika virus, there will be no such indecison this time around. Indeed, it seems the world’s top-ranked golfers will be climbing over each other to get to Tokyo. “It would be a great experience. We’re going to play the Open and then ...