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After his emotional Masters success on Easter Sunday, Bubba Watson is looking to celebrate Father’s Day this Sunday with a back-to-back Major victory in the U.S. Open. The last U.S. Open’s have witnessed the Northern Ireland duo of Graeme McDowell and Rory McIlroy embrace their respective father’s. Father’s Day again falls on the second Sunday in June this and once again it’s the same week at the season’s second Major Championship. Watson had donned U.S. Military ...

The Ireland pair of Stephanie Meadow and Leona Maguire have welcomed news the 2016 Curtis Cup will be staged at the Dun Laoghaire Club in Ireland. Officials made the announement at the prize-giving ceremony and moments after GB & I stormed to victory in the 2012 Curtis Cup at Nairn. “That’s great news for Ireland and Irish golf,” said Meadow who won her match to ensure GB & I regainged the Curtis Cup. And Maguire, who despite being beaten 6 & 5, was also delighted ...

GB & I have created history in storming to success in the CurtisCup at Nairn in Scotland. The host team headed into the Sunday Singles trailing 5 ½ points to 6 ½ point and needing to win five of the eight Singles matches. They achieved that to brush aside their rivals for a 10 ½ to 9 ½ victory. It was Northern Ireland’s Stephanie Meadow, a member at the same Royal Portrush Club as past US Open champion, Graeme McDowell, who delivered victory to GB & I winning her match against ...

American Brooke Pancake is heading to the pro ranks in the best possible form having flattened Ireland’s Leona Maguire into hopeless submission winning their final Singles match in easy fashion. Apart from winning the sixth hole, Maguire never got out of first gear and in the process also losing the par five 10th hole with a triple bogey ‘8’ to Pancake’s ‘7’. The bashful Slieve Russell attached Maguire was sent out as team anchor but was hopelessly all at sea ...

GB & I have hit the front for the first time in the 2012 Curtis Cup winning the opening three Singles matches today. The host team went into the last day trailing 5 1/2 points to 6 1/2 points but drew level when Kelly Tidy defeated Austin Ernst in the first match of the day. GB & I then took the lead for a first-ever occasion this week when Amy Boulden defeated Emily Turbet 3 and 1. And the wave of momentum continued in GB & I’s favour in the third match when Holly Clyburn accounted ...

Lee Westwood captured the Nordea Masters by five strokes with a final round 69 for a 19-under par victory tally. And with his win Westwood achieved the following: • It is his 22nd European Tour International Schedule victory in his 408th European Tour event. • Will stay in third place in the Official World Golf Ranking. • Moves to €1,212,162 in The Race to Dubai.  It marks the 11th time he has passed €1 million in a single season during his European Tour career. (Only Colin Montgomerie, ...

Lee Westwood is heading to next week’s U.S. Open in the best possible form with his easy stroll to success in the Nordea Masters in Sweden. Westwood was in a class of his own all week posting a final round 69 to win by five strokes with a 19-under par tally. It is Westwood’s third Nordea Masters (fomerly known as the Scandinavian Masters) success and his 22nd European Tour victory toast. And just when his rivals thought they had a chance of turning the table on the Worksop golfing ...