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EXCLUSIVE .. Scot Martin Laird says he has no regrets missing out on teeing-up in this week’s whopping $20m (£stg 15.6m) Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando, Florida. Instead, Laird is contesting the PGA Tour’s $4m (£stg 3.1m) Puerto Rico Open and where he’s put himself well into contention in the hot and windy conditions on the Grand Reserve course laid-out along the Caribbean shoreline. Laird, 41, posted rounds of 67 and 68 for a nine-under tally and just three shots from the lead as ...

Champion Italian golfer Matteo Manassero brilliantly reminded the golf world of his talent posting a sensational career-low 61 on day two of the co-sanctioned Jonsson Workwear Open on the outskirts of Joburg. Manassero, 30, grabbed two eagles and seven birdies in his 11-under-par performance on the host Glendower GC. It is also among just a 10th main Tour event for the affable Italian since regaining his DPWT card late last year in Spain, and thus ending a five-year absence from the Tour. Manny, ...

Food and drink prices, as we know, are always surprisingly cheap for patrons attending The Masters. However, there’s a new exclusive Augusta National-run hospitality venue opening right across the road from famed Georgia course set to turn that notion of it not being so expensive within the championship grounds right on its Flowering Crab Apple tail. Are you relaxing in your favourite Masters-viewing chair as it will cost you a cool $US 17,000 in receiving a full Masters week pass to the Map ...

Utopian is defined as modelled on or aiming for a state in which everything is perfect. Will Zalatoris revealed he, and like his fellow pros, harbours the goal that men’s professional golf will one day get back to perfect. It’s been a month shy of six months since the world’s best golfers, and that includes LIV golfers, last teed-up in a major championship. Disappointingly, it’s been a month shy of 18 months since super-talented Zalatoris last contested a major and that ...

ST FRANCIS BAY (Eastern Cape) – America’s Jordan Gumberg claimed a thrilling victory in the SDC Championship at St Francis Links on Sunday when he beat South Africa’s Robin ‘Tiger’ Williams with a birdie at the second playoff hole. Gumberg and Williams finished regulation play tied for the lead on 12 under par following their respective final rounds of 68 and 69. On a day when the wind of the previous three days gave way to rain, local hero Williams had seemed destined to claim ...

Tiger Woods will return to competition on Monday when he joins one of the best fields on the year in teeing-up in the annual Seminole Pro-Member outing at the ultra-exclusive Florida club. Seminole is about a 30-minute drive from Woods equally ultra-private Hobe Sound abode and he’ll be joined by a real who’s who from both the professional playing ranks and those who administer the game, Some of the star players included the Irish duo of Rory McIlroy and Padraig Harrington along with ...

Scot Connor Syme is determined to finally walk through a first Tour victory door in sharing the lead heading to the final round of the SDC Championship at Eastern Cape in South Africa. Syme, 28, grabbed seven birdies, including three in succession from the sixth in a round of 67 to be tied at the top on 11-under with England’s Daniel Brown, and two shos clear of the field. The Scot bogeyed the second in the continuing windy conditions on the Scottish-like St. Francis Links host course before  ...