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New Zealand’s Ben Campbell edges closer to becoming only the second repeat Link Hong Kong Open champion since the inagural event six-five years ago. Campbell added a second round 65 to his opening 63 and move one clear of the field at 12-under on the host Hong Kong GC course in suburban Fanling. The Kiwi overhauled Thailand’s Nitithorn Thippong who led on day one of the $2m event thanks to a stunning 62 and then on day two signed for  67. Three players – Korean Yongjun Bae (62), ...

It has been 15 years since golf’s oldest major championship was last held at Turnberry. It has also been nine years since the staging 2015 AIG Women’s Open and a year after Donald Trump bought the now renamed Trump Turnberry. However there will be no further R & A sanctioned sanctioned tournaments returning to Turnberry until the present ‘media noise’ still surrounding the Scottish course disappears and the focus is purely on golf. And that will continue to be the scenario ...

Aussie Elvis Smiley hit all the right notes in seizing a one-shot lead in the opening round of the BMW PGA Championship in Brisbane. Smylie, 22 brilliantly birdied three of his closing four holes in a six-under 65  on the rain-softened host Royal Queensland course in the Queensland capital. Four players – Frenchman Victor Perez, Swiss Joel Girrbach, Colombian Cristobal Del Solar and Aussie Matias Sanchez – share second thanks to rounds 66. Eight others, including three-time past Australian ...

Eight major championship winners will be heading to Saudia Arabia early next month for the sixth hosting of the US$5million PIF Saudi International powered by SoftBank Investment Advisers. The season-ending Asian Tour International Series event is being held from the 4th to 7th December and for a first time at the famed Riyadh Golf Club in the Saudi capital. Major champions include five former Masters winners Bubba Watson, Sergio Garcia, Charles Schwartzel, Dustin Johnson and Patrick Reed and they ...

The PGA Tour Policy Board today approved competitive changes supported by the Player Advisory Council (PAC) that will deliver a stronger and more competitive and entertaining PGA TOUR to fans, players, tournaments and partners. The initiative addresses key areas of feedback from the membership over the course of 2024, most notably the need to provide equitable playing opportunities and certainty of schedule for members who have earned a PGA TOUR card. Other changes include field size adjustments ...

Spanish superstar Sergio Garcia has become eligible to qualify for next year’s 2025 European Ryder Cup side with confirmation he had paid outstanding fines owed to the DP World Tour (DPWT). Garcia and others had until yesterday (November 17th) to pay the fines and with sources saying that the 10-time Ryder Cup star transferred the sum into the DPWT coffers and reported be around $1.2m. “Sergio Garcia submitted his application to return to membership of the DP World Tour for the 2025 season ...

Scot Stephen Gallacher tees-up in California tomorrow (Tuesday) with the confidence of triple Major winning Padraig Harrington that the Scot will qualify for over-50’s Champions Tour. Gallacher, who turned 50 on November 1st, has travelled with caddying son Jack to be among 63 players who’ll tee-up on the Socoda Springs course at San Jacinto and around 100 miles east of LAX. The top-20 will then head early next month to the famed TPC Scottsdale course in Arizona, and venue each year for the Phoenix ...