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Javier Ballesteros, eldest son of the late, great Seve Ballesteros, will join reigning British Amateur champion, Alan Dunbar in making their  European Challenge Tour debut in the inaugural Challenge de Madrid from April 24-27. But while the 22-year old Ballesteros, who won the amateur Madrid Open last year, is yet to join the professional ranks and will compete as a sponsor’s invitation in the €160,000 tournament, Northern Ireland born Dunbar is making his professional debut in the first Challenge ...

Bernie McGuire, and one half of www.golfbytourmiss.com has topped the Augusta National newspaper poll in picking new Masters champion, Adam Scott. Bernie was among 42 US and overseas journalists polled by the Augusta Cronicle’s Scott Michaux when asked to select the 77th Masters champion and also to provide a reason for your choice. Bernie, who’s first Masters was the infamous Greg Norman meltdown in 1996, was the only journalist to select Scott. And he’s selection was the very ...

Belgium’s Nicolas Colsaerts may have arrived at Augusta National as a rookie but the victorious Ryder Cup star is armed with the advice of the six-time Masters winning Jack Nicklaus. Colsaerts was hanging around the clubhouse at The Bear’s Club in West Palm Beach last week when someone noticed Jack Nicklaus Jr. in the room and asked him what advice he would give to someone playing his first Masters. Nicklaus Jr had beemn caddying for his father Jack when he captured a sixth Augusta green ...

Double Masters winner Jose Maria Olazabal left a spectator in a bloody mesh with an errant shot on the first official day of practice for the 2013 Masters. Olazabal, the last European to don the Green Jacket back in 1999, accidentally struck the fan with his shot on the eighth hole at Augusta National. The male spectator collapsed to the the ground clutching his head with his hand before being escorted away by medical staff. Olazabal arrived at the scene to see the spectator being attended to by ...

Former US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice joined triple Masters winner, Phil Mickelson on Sunday for a friendly round of golf at Augusta National. Rice has been a member since August when she was invited to be one of the two initial women’s members of Augusta National. Also on the course Sunday was fellow member Ron Townsend, former president of Gannett Television Group, went off next with a group of members. And following Townsend’s group was Adam Scott and Martin Kaymer along with another ...

Germany’s Marcel Siem was in the 2013 Masters for nearly eight hours before the disappointment of learning the new Hassan 11 Trophy champion ended last week as the 51st ranked best player in the world. On the morning of his third Race to Dubai success he received an invitation to compete in the Valero Texas Open with the offer of a first class air fare and accommodation for he and his England born caddy, Guy Tilson in the world’s largest Marriott hotel on course at TPC San Antonio. But ...

Northern Ireland’s Alan Dunbar warmed-up for the Masters holing 12-foot birdie putt on the final green to defeat reigning US Amateur champion, Steven Fox 1up for victory in the 16th annual Georgia Cup at The Golf Club of Georgia in suburban Atlanta. With the victory, it allowed the British Amateur Champions to even the all-time series of The Georgia Cup at 8-8. Fox, a senior at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, took the match to the 18th hole for the first time in the event’s existence ...