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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 ...

Dustin Johnson rubbed Rory McIlroy’s nose into any thoughts of regaining the World No. 1 title with victory in the WGC – Mexico Championship. Johnson fought off a strong final round challenge not from McIlroy but from mop-haired Englishman Tommy Fleetwood for the American to win by a stroke courtesy of a closing 68 and a 14-under par tally. The Southport-born Fleetwood produced a pair of 66s to fight his way to second place at 13-under par and just weeks after capturing the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. It ...

Rory McIlroy shrugged off any lingering stomach bug to muscle his way to the front and the possibility in returning to World No. 1 at the WGC – Mexico Championship in Mexico City. A day after confessing he’d spent the eve of the event ‘worshipping the porcelain’, McIlroy displayed his enormous class in posting a round of a six under 65 for an impressive two shot lead at nine under par. McIlroy, and in a return to full competition in some six weeks since suffering a rib injury, capped his ...

Phil Mickelson found himself having to call on his brother to carry the clubs after regular caddy Jim ‘Bones’ Mackay became the latest to succumb to food poisoning at the WGC – Mexico Championship. ‘Bones’ lasted just three holes and clearly looked in plenty of discomfort even before Mickelson teed-off on day two in the $US 9.75m event in Mexico City. Fortunately, Mickelson’s brother Tim was in the crowd who is not only a decent player but if a former college coach turned player manager, ...