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Peter Lawrie emerged from a two-hour fog delay and a course he’d never played to be just one shot from the lead in the Ballantine’s Championship in Seoul, South Korea. While leading Americans Zach Johnson and Dustin Johnson stayed away with fears for the uncertainty on the Korean Peninsula, Lawrie’s only concern was finding his way about the Blackstone course when fog rolled-in early into the round. The father of four returned after a two hour and 10 minute delay to post a four under par 68. “I’m ...

It has emerged in the wake of Graeme McDowell’s RBC Heritage Classic victory last week how his lost mother was rescued by a life guard on a Hilton Head beach. Scott Ohlson spends his summer holidays as one of five full-time beach patrol officers on the beaches of Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. Seven days prior to McDowell’s play-off victory, Ohlson was doing his rounds when he got a radio to say a woman had been missing for three hours. The woman turned out to be Marion McDowell, mum ...

Mark Warren and Craig Lee combined to send the Scottish flag flying high atop of the leaderboard with a round to play in the Open de España. Warren posted a third round 68 to move to eight under par and two shots clear of his Tartan-born compatriot on day three of the prestigious event being played on the Parador de El Salader course in Seville. It’s been 19 years since Colin Montgomerie was the last Scot to lift the Spanish Open trophy at the Club de Campo course in Madrid. Warren, who is ...

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 ...