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…… Fatiha Betscher, Pacific Palisades, CA Fellow Open Champion David Duval has warned reigning Open Champion and World No. 1 Rory McIlroy on the consequence of injury. And the American knows what he’s talking about have risen also to World No. 1 but having the carpet pulled out from under him with nagging back injuries, so much so the now 43-year old hasn’t tasted success since endearing himself to golf fans with his victory in 2001 at Royal Lytham and St. Annes. It was the ...

……..Fatiha Betscher, Pacific Palisades, CA Golden Bear Jack Nicklaus believes Tiger Woods is so dedicated he will eventually break clear of a form slump and go on to surpass Nicklaus Majors record. “I think Tiger will turn it around,” Nicklaus said during an appearance Friday morning on the Golf Channel. “He’s too dedicated, he works too hard at it, he’s got too much talent. He’ll figure it out.” Woods currently is taking a break from competitive ...

……… Fatiha Betscher, Pacific Palisades, CA. Double US Open winning Retief Goosen admitted he ‘feed off’ playing alongside Vijay Singh for the duo to post superb five under par 66s and share the clubhouse lead on day one of the Northern Trust Open at the Riviera Club in suburban Los Angeles. Goosen, who recently turned 46, birdied three of his opening four holes in his lowest score this season and less than a week after posting a final round 73 in the Farmers Insurance ...

……….. Fatiha Betscher, Pacific Palisades, CA Sergio Garcia tees-up in this week’s Northern Trust Open looking to end a two-year PGA Tour winless drought. Garcia’s last victory was a year ago in banking the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters in Doha. However he makes his 2015 year debut on the PGA Tour at this week’s Northern Trust Open in suburban Los Angeles not having tasted a PGA Tour win since capturing the 2012 Wyndham Championship and the very week after Rory ...

While Darren Clarke was a unanimous choice as 2016 European Ryder Cup captain it’s been revealed there was actually three candidates in the Hazeltine captaincy mix. And this after it was widely presumed the five-man selection panel would be choosing between two candidates in Clarke and Miguel Angel Jimenez. But then Colin Montgomerie, and one of those on the five-man panel to select a successor to Paul McGinley, let slip there was actually three in the mix in an interview he had with Sky Sports ...

Newly-appointed Darren Clarke says the 2016 Ryder Cup needs a fit Tiger Woods competing on the USA Team at Hazeline. One of Clarke’s first task as the first Northern Ireland born European Team captain was to host a phone-in conference with members of the European Tour media. While the five-man European Ryder Cup selection committee was meeting at Wentworth Clarke is in South Africa and having just played a practice round alongside his son Tyrone, an his playing partner in this week’s ...

As widely predicted Darren Clarke has been confirmed as European captain for the 2016 Ryder Cup at Hazeltine National in Chaska, Minnesota, from September 30 – October 2, 2016. However it took all of two-and-a-half hours earlier today when the five-man panel met at Tour HQ at Wentworth. Clarke, and winner of the 2011 Open Championship, creates history in becoming the first Northern Irishman to lead Europe against the United States, having played in the biennial contest five times, featuring ...