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Sweden’s Alex Noren will be now looking for a double birthday celebration after posting a second straight 66 for a 12-under par tally on day two of the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open at Castle Stuart. The Monte Carlo based Noren, who is chasing a third Tour victory, stormed into the clubhouse lead on 12-under par before being joined by overnight leader, Francesco Molinari who could only add a 70 to his first round course record of 62. Noren celebrated his 30th birthday on Thursday ...

As expected, new U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson has withdrawn from next week’s Open Championship at Royal Lytham and St. Annes. Simpson indicated after winning at Olympic Golf Club his wife was expecting at around the time of golf’s oldest Major. The American formally advised the R & A today but Simpson will not be replaced in the field. Simpson was due to make his second Open Championship showing after finishing 16th on debut last year at Royal St. Georges. He is second Major Champion ...

Four-time Major winning Phil Mickelson muscled his way clear of a recent form slump with a blistering 64 on day two of the Scottish Open at Castle Stuart. It is Mickelson’s lowest score in 31 rounds of the Scottish Open and one less than a prior best of two 65s with the last being a 65 on day one of the 2007 event when he eventually lost a play-off to Frenchman Gregory Havret. Mickelson holed his second shot for an eagle ‘two’ at his opening hole ahead of round also of six birdies including ...

                                                Bushnell Golf introduces its revolutionary Tour™ Z6 Laser Rangefinder. Ultra-compact, vertically configured, the new premium Tour™ Z6 offers new advanced technologies for 2012. Bushnell Outdoor Products, makers of the #1 laser rangefinder on the PGA Tour*, have this month introduced its smallest, most technically advanced golf laser rangefinder – the Tour™ Z6. With its ultra-compact size and increased ...

Four-time Major champion Phil Mickelson will look to play his way through a run of poor form ahead of next week’s British Open. Mickelson’s indifferent play of late continued with the current World No. 16 posting a one over par 73 on the opening day of the Scottish Open at Castle Stuart. The American recorded four birdies but also three bogeys and a 12thhole double bogey that left him already trailing 11 strokes behind Italy’s Francesco Molinari who established a new course record of a 10-under ...

England’s Andrew Johnston was celebrating a first Tour hole-in-one when he aced the par three 11th hole on route to a three under par 69. Johnston earned himself 168 bottles of French champagne, and one bottle for each of the 168 yards of the par three. But the effort was all the more remarkable given Johnston’s playing partner, Phil Price of Wales aced the same hole in the same round 12 months ago and also went home with 168 bottles of bubbly in his car boot! Johnston, a Challenge Tour Graduate ...

Triple Major winning Ernie Els found himself confronted by a Tour rules official after his opening round of the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open at Castle Stuart. While Els was taking four shots to get out of a bunker at the par five sixth, a TV anorak watching coverage of the event, phoned to Tour to report a possible breach of the rules. However while Els walked off with a double bogey ‘7’ and headed into the rest of his round, the Tour viewed footage of the incident and then ...