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Twenty-year old Jordan Spieth this week could become the fifth youngest two-time winner on the PGA Tour since 1932. Spieth heads into the third round of the $US 10m Players Championship trailing one shot behind Germany’s Martin Kaymer after rounds of 67 and 66 for an impressive 11 under par tally, and also not one bogey in his first appearance in the PGA Tour’s flagship event. Ralph Guldahl was aged 20 years, two months and 9 days when he won the 1932 Arizona Open to his 1931 Santa Monica ...

Lee Westwood’s oozing with confidence so much so he reckons he can be knocking on the door for victory with a round to play in the Players Championship in Florida. Westwood ran the Union Jack up into a share of fifth late on day two of the PGA Tour’s flagship event with a score of 71 in tough conditions to move to six under par. It left the recent Malaysian Open winner six shots behind fellow former World No. 1 Martin Kaymer, and with the German adding a 69 to his opening 63. However the biggest ...

Jamie Donaldson knows he can lock-in a first Ryder Cup cap this week after a sizzling second round at the Players Championship. The Welsh golfer continued to display his fondness for playing in Florida with a second round 67 for a four-under par tally in continuing heat wave conditions on the TPC Sawgrass Stadium course. Germany’s Martin Kaymer added a second round 69 to his opening joint course-record 63 to forge to a then seven shot clubhouse lead in the PGA Tour’s $US 10m flagship event. Londoner ...

Germany’s Martin Kaymer was in sizzling form around the TPC Sawgrass course equaling the course record with a nine under par 63. The 2010 PGA Champion went out from the 1oth tee to be two under par after nine holes but stormed home with seven birdies over his inward half including birding his last four holes. Kaymer’s score matched the Stadium course record first set 22 years ago in the third round by American Fred Couples and then matched on day one in 1994 by Greg Norman and then last ...

There will be an important visitor to the famed Royal Portrush Golf Club today (Thursday). Peter Unsworth is the R&A’s Championship Committee chairman and his will be on hand at Royal Portrush inspecting the course ahead of July’s British Amateur Championship However there is no denying Unsworth will also be casting an eye over the Antrim links gem ahead of a possible decision to bring the 2019 Open Championship to the Northern Ireland for a first occasion since 1951, and also only a second ...

JP Fitzfgerald, and the long-time caddy to Rory McIlroy, was disappointed when his tee shot at the famed par 3 17th island green was long and finding the water at the back of the Pete Dye designed green. McIlroy surprised officials when he arrived on the 10th tee around 2pm local time Wednesday, and after advising PGA Tour officials he would not be available for a Media Center press conference. His manager was contacted who advised that McIlroy would not be teeing up on the course ahead of his Thursday ...

Ricardo Santos will lead the home charge at this week’s Madeira Islands Open confident of a second home success in two years and on the occasion of the European Tour’s 1,500th event. Santos won this event in 2012, becoming the first Portuguese player in European Tour history to win on home soil before www.golfbtourmiss.com pushed hard for him to be awarded the coveted Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year Award. The 31 year old has been on consistent form this year, missing just two cuts in 11 ...