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Graeme McDowell sensationally booked himself a Royal Portrush a tee-time into next month’s Open Championship holing a remarkable 30-footer for a  72nd hole saving par at the Canadian Open in Hamilton. McDowell now joins fellow Irish Padraig Harrington, Rory McIlroy, Darren Clarke and Shane Lowry on a Portrush course he knows like the back of his hand. G Mac  went into the final round needing to be inside the top-10 but also among the top-three not otherwise exempt into the 148th Open Champioinship, ...

Rory McIlroy is just one round shy of capturing a sixth national ‘Open’ championship title after a brilliant bogey-free third round 64 to be sharing the lead with a round to play in the RBC Canadian Open. McIlroy, and contesting the Canadian event for a first time in his career, superbly warmed-up for next week’s U.S. Open title with three outward birdies and just as many homeward birdies to move to the clubhouse lead at 13-under par on the Hamilton Golf Club course. The four-time Major winner ...

The United States Golf Association (USGA) today announced tee times for the first two rounds of the 2019 U.S. Open Championship, Thursday (June 13) and Friday (June 14), at 7,075-yard, par-71 Pebble Beach (Calif.) Golf Links. The U.S. Open is a 72-hole, stroke-play competition. A field of 156 players will play 18 holes of stroke play on June 13 and 14, after which the field will be reduced to the low 60 scores and ties. Those players making the cut will play 18 holes on June 15 and 16. If there is ...

The trio of Shane Lowry, Graeme McDowell and Rory McIlroy impressed to be a collective 14-under par on the opening day of the RBC Canadian Open in Hamilton, Ontario. Lowry produced his lowest opening PGA Tour score of the season grabbing seven birdies in a six-under par 64 on the Hamilton Golf & Country Club course. It left Lowry trailing just a shot adrift of American Keegan Bradley who grabbed five birdies in succession mid-round to lead the Euro 6.7m event. Lowry’s effort was a shot fewer ...

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 ...