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Atlanta, GA … Paul Casey has no explanation for the PGA Tour’s ‘Mr. Thursday’ tag after signing for a four-under par 66 on day one of the season-ending Tour Championship at East Lake in Atlanta. Casey grabbed six birdies including birdies over his closing two holes in another impressive Play-Offs display to be sharing second place with four others, including U.S. Open champion, Brooke Koepka and two behind American Kyle Stanley who carded a six-under par 64 in the hot and ...

Rookie Scottish pro Conor Syme upstaged some of his more fancied opponents with a 68 on day one of the Portugal Masters at Vilamoura. While Marc Warren, with a four-under 67 to be just three shots from the lead led the Tartan challenge, the Drumoig-based Syme looked very sharp on his play-for-pay debut. Syme, 22 is playing on an invitation and turned pro immediately following the recent Walker Cup. The young Scot managed five birdies and dropped two shots on the testing Victoria course on the ...

Padraig Harrington will look to again draw on plenty of Irish support when he tees-up in the defence of his Portugal Masters title at Oceanic Villamoura. Harrington singled out the support from the many Irish fans present a year ago and soon after capturing the event on the Oceanico Victoria coures on the sun-splashed Algarve. The win was Harrington’s 15th on the European Tour but a first in eight years and 74 days, and a victory gap of having contested 115 Tour events since capturing the 2008 ...

Springbok golfing sensation MG Keyser kept his cool when it mattered most on a steamy afternoon to win the Golf Citizen Classic, beating Spain’s Victor Bertran in a sudden-death playoff at the Els Club, Dubai, on Wednesday. Bertran, playing in the seventh last group, carded a final round of 66 to set the clubhouse target of nine under that the South African ace, who started the day two in front, matched with a birdie on the 18th to force a playoff. Keyser, who closed with a 73, hit the green ...

Atlanta, GA … World No. 1 Dustin Johsnon singled out Marc Leishman for special praise ahead of this week’s PGA Tour 2016/17 season-concluding Tour Championship in Atlanta. Johnson returns to East Lake course with bitter-sweet memories sharing the lead on day, leading on day two and in a tie for the lead with a round to play but only to shoot a disappointing last day 73 and watch from the clubhouse as Rory McIlroy defeated his good friend, Kevin Chappell with a birdie at the first extra hole. But ...

Marc Leishman was in a class of his own leading from start-to-finish and unchallenged to capture a second PGA Tour this season with a record-equalling Play-Offs victory in the BMW Championship at Conway Farms. Leishman also captured an 11th win of his professional career but easily the biggest in posting a closing round 67 to win by three shots with a 23-under par triumph. Leishman deflected everyone who sought to deny him the BMW title including fellow Australian Jason Day, American golfing heart-throb ...

It has taken some time but Frenchman Romain Wattel is now a European Tour winner in capturing the KLM Open in Spijk. Wattel, 26 posted a final round 69 to win by a shot with a 15-under par tally. The Montpellier-born Wattel, who now resides in Dubai, has previously recorded two seconds, four thirds and 23 other top-10ss in his previous 186 events. Wattel also became the second French-born winnr on the Tour this year after Alex Levy won the Volvo China Open.` He finished one shot in front of Canadian ...