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Australia’s Peter Senior has the honour of being the first player to tee up in this year’s 142nd Open Championship at Muirfield. The 53-year old Queensland-born Senior will tee up at 6.32am local time Thursday. Senior, who made his Open Championship debut in 1979 at Royal Lytham and St. Annes, is competing in his 19th Open Championship and a first in three years. The very popular Australian earned his place in this year’s field by securing top spot on the 2012/13 Australasian Tour ...

It didn’t take long for leading Australian golfer and the reigning Masters champion, Adam Scott to be caught up in last Sunday’s concluding thriller to the England -v- Australia First Ashes cricket Test Match. Australia lost the opening match of five by the smallest of margins, and also in somewhat controversial circumstances, but for England to go one nil up in the five Test Match series. Apart from Scott’s stunning Augusta National success the outcome continued a disappointing ...

On the eve of the 142nd Open Championship and world No. 2 Rory McIlroy played down his indifferent six months this season declaring:  “I’ve had a poor six months, I’m fine, I have  good life and it doesn’t bother me.” McIlroy was speaking ahead of his sixth straight Open appearance since winning the Low Amateur award on his debut in 2007 at Carnoustie. But while McIlroy has since won two Majors and captured 11 other events around the globe, the current World No. 2 ...

Two players this year have won Majors at age 32 and American Brandt Snedeker is hoping to be the third in capturing the 142nd Open Championship at Muirfield. Australia’s Adam Scott turned 33 today but he was aged 32 when he captured this year’s Masters at Augusta National. England’s Justin Rose was also 32 years of age when he claimed his first Major at last month’s US Open at Merion and it just so happens the curly haired American is the same age as he arrives to play in his fifth ...

In his glittering career Tiger Woods has been introduced to Presidents, Prime Ministers and politicians of all persuasions but nothing prepared him back in 1998 when he and his late father, Earl met with South African President Nelson Mandela. Woods was in South Africa appearing in the Nedbank Challenge at Sun City. He won the Masters by 12 strokes a year before and was invited to Mandela’s private home. “My father and I went to have lunch with him and it still gives me chills to this ...

Frenchman Thomas Levet says he has no regrets in losing a play-off to Ernie Els in the 2002 Open Championship at Muirfield. Levet and Els along with the Australian duo of Steve Elkington and Stuart Appleby ended regulation play locked on six under par and Levet coming from four shots back and posting a 66 to join the Open play-off. Appleby and Elkington were the first to drop out and with Els and Levet ending the four holes tied before Els claimed a second Open Championship title. Levet is this ...

American Dustin Johnson got his first look at all 18 holes of Muirfield declaring the tougher the course plays the more he will enjoy the challenge of the 142nd Open Championship. Johnson got his first look at this year’s Open Championship host venue playing nine holes on Sunday and then played the back nine this morning. “The course is good, really good and it’s playing really firm and fast,” he said. Johnson secured a best finish of joint second with compatriot Phil Mickelson ...