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Palm Harbor, FL … Open Champion Henrik Stenson bounced back from illness last week in Mexico to grab a share of second place on day one the Valspar Championship at Palm Harbor. Stenson didn’t drop in glorious scoring conditions on the Copperhead course and capping his round with three straight birdies from his fourth to sixth holes in a seven under par 64. The effort is reported to be Stenson’s lowest score in any Florida tournament he’s contested. It left the affable Swede tied ...

Palm Harbor, FL … Defending champion Charl Schwartzel was confident of taking his place in this year’s event after being hit on the left wrist by a golf ball and forced to withdraw from the Pro-Am 10 holes ahead of this year’s Valspar Championship at the Innisbrook Resort. Schwartzel was struck by one of his amateur partners on the very first hole when the ball bounced off a tree and struck the 2011 Masters champion, causing his wrist to swell and his hand to go numb briefly. The ...

Showing maturity beyond his years, rising Indian star Feroz Singh Garewal fired a tidy two-under 70 to take a share of the lead going into the final stage of the MENA Tour’s Qualifying School at Royal Golf El Jadida in Morocco on Tuesday. The 19-year- old Chandigarh-based golfer, who turned professional in 2015, reeled off three birdies and a bogey to join Spain’s Leonardo Axel Lilja Moyano, who carded a level-par 72, atop the leaderboard on one over par 145. England’s Billy Hemstock, ...

World No. 2 Jason Day hosted a media outing today (March 7th) at TPC Sawgrass where in some two months he will defend his Players Championship title Day became only the fifth player in the tournament’s history, and a first since Hal Sutton in 2000, to win the prestigious event wire-to-wire on the Pete Dye designed Stadium Course. Day became the fifth Australian-born champion following Adam Scott (2004), Steve Elkington (1991 & 1997) and Greg Norman (1994). And while a double ear infection ...

Drawing on the fighting spirit of his younger brother and Ryder Cup hero Ian, Danny Poulter battled through tough course conditions to grab a share of the lead in the opening round of the MENA Tour Qualifying School at Royal Golf El Jadida in Morocco on Tuesday. The Englishman mixed four birdies with five bogeys in his opening 73 to move into a six-way tie at the summit of the leaderboard along with Petr Dedek of the Czech Republic, England’s Jack Doherty, Reed Lindsey of the US, Billy Hemstock ...

Palm Harbor, FL .. Tyrrell Hatton has found himself having to go on a charm offensive given a growing number of US fans and electronic media outlets not pronouncing  his name correct. Hatton burst onto Stateside TV screens last fortnight in contesting the final round of the Honda Classic in the company of eventual PGA National champion, Rickie Fowler. But then anytime the High Wycombe born Hatton’s name was mentioned either during the CBS TV coverage or the PGA Tour’s own radio network it ...

Paul Dunne secured his best finish turning pro in late 2015 by sharing sixth place in the Tshwane Open in Pretoria. Dunne posed a final round five under 66 for a 12-under par tally in his 34th Tour event. However, the Greystones golfer clearly must have lamented his opening 73 when he posted six bogeys but then just five shots over the following three rounds and capping his final day’s play with three birdies in succession from the seventh. Dunne then muscled his way into sixth on the back of three ...