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The great Arnold Palmer received a belated 83rd birthday present when he was award the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest honour given to civilians by the U.S. Congress. Palmer looked visibly moved when handed the award in the U.S. Congress with his now good friend and former long time arch rival, Jack Nicklaus among those present in the American capital to congratulate him “I’m particularly proud of anything that the House and Senate agree on,”  said Palmer. Palmer captured 62 ...

Colin Montgomerie’s struggling with a torn calf muscle heading into the BMW Italian Open in Turin. Monty underwent an MRI scan on his left leg after picking up the injury last fortnight in Switzerland and being forced out of last week’s KLM Open. He’ll wear a special DVT airline sock while is also on a prescription of anti-inflamatories and taken to wearing for a first time the new Ecco line of casual wear looking golf shoes worn by Masters champion, Fred Couples and recent Open Champion, Ernie ...

England’s Robert Rock defends his BMW Italian Open title delighted to be among a handful of players who this year have beaten both World No. 1 Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods in the same event. Rock shot to world fame in January by relegating McIlroy into second place and Woods into joint third in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Since then McIlroy and Woods have won seven events between them. “Beating Tiger was great in Abu Dhabi, and also finishing in front of Rory was fantastic,” said Rock. “My ...

After the European Tour indicated the Andalucia Masters will not be taking place there is good news with organisers of the Hong Kong Open have confirmed the 2012 event will go ahead as schedule despite suggestions to the contrary. Swiss bank UBS will return as title sponsor of the Hong Kong Open as organisers today ask the government for extra cash to attract marquee players. Vicky Jones, the European Tour’s Client Services Director in Asia, confirmed last night (Wed) a deal had been struck ...

Organisers of this week’s BMW Italian Open have not surprisingly put the only three European Ryder Cup stars – Italy’s Francesco Molinari, Belgium’s Nicolas Colsaerts and Germany’s Martin Kaymer – in the same group for the opening two rounds of the event in Turin. Colsaerts and Kaymer played beside each for a very first time last week in Holland and now find themselves grouped in Itlay. Molinari will start the event as overwhelming crowd favourite, and looking ...

Former Open Champion, Darren Clarke and last week’s KLM Open champion, Peter Hanson look set to join a number of fellow Europeans competing in the Hero Indian Open at Bangalore. This year’s India event is growing in popularity for European Tour members given the likelihood the Andalucia Masters, being staged the same week from October 18th to 21st, will soon be officially dropped from the 2012 Race to Dubai schedule. The $US 1.25m Hero Indian Open has already managed to sign Masters ...

While World No. 1 Rory McIlroy has confirmed to compete for the first time in the Barclays Singaore Open but at the expense of not contesting the prior week’s WGC – HSBC Champions event in China. Also McIlroy seems now more than likely won’t be defending his Hong Kong Open title. Singapore Open organisers indicated McIlroy will join three-time former winner Adam Scott along with American Ryder Cup star Phil Mickelson, in the $US 6m event on the Sentosa Golf Club course. The ...