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Good news with Seamus Power indicating he’s playing pain free after contesting all four rounds for a fifth occasion in his six 2024 PGA Tour starts at last week’s Genesis Invitational. Power, 36, matched his best effort this new season with a T31st place finish in suburban Santa Monica and this after a similar T31st finish in the recent weather affected AT & T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. The Las Vegas-based Irishman is lying 76th on the current FedEx Cup standings and while he slipped three ...

Japanese golfer Hideki Matsuyama will celebrated his up-coming 32nd birthday with a $4m Genesis Invitational victory purse thanks to his record-setting victory at Riviera. Matsuyama stormed his way from six shots back at the start of the final round to shoot a closing 62 and win by three shots at 17-under. The win is Matsuyama’s ninth on the PGA Tour and the 18th of his career while the former Masters champ also set a new record for PGA Tour wins by Asian-born after sharing eight wins apiece ...

Rory McIlroy may have finished well outside the top-20 at the close of the Genesis Invitational but once again he’s way out front when it comes to ‘off the tee’ PGA Tour stats. Little wonder McIlroy admitted his game was close after posting a no-frills final round of 70 for a five-under par tally on the host Riviera course. It left him trailing a whopping 12 shots behind Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama who cut a swath through the field on day four, birdieing his opening three holes ...

Tiger Woods has spoken following his shock withdrawal from the Genesis Invitational indicating he was “resting and feeling better” a day after we learned it was a bout of flu that sidelined the Riviera tournament host. This is good news that it was nothing super serious that dramatically forced Woods from the course and clearly now continues to all go well for his to return to Augusta National early in April. Though the sight of Woods being driven from the course after hitting his tee ...

None of us can ever recall Tiger Woods producing a shank but then this is what the 15-time major champion admits could be the scenario as he strives this year to keep to a ‘one tournament a month’ playing schedule. Woods spoiled a decent first PGA Tour counting round since withdrawing ahead of last April’s third round at the Masters in shanking his 8-iron shot into the final green on day of the Genesis Invitational on the host Riviera course in suburban Santa Monica. His second ...

Canadian-born Scot Dean Robertson will be looking next year as the new GB & I Walker Cup to end what will be a 24-year USA home soil Waker Cup winning advantage. ‘Deano’, as he has long been affectionately known, has been rewarded for his post pro playing career work by being named the fourth straight Scot to captain GB & I at next year’s 50th Walker Cup at Cypress Point in California. ‘Deano’ also is the 17th Scot to take on the captaincy role. The now 53-year-old kick-started ...

The major of Scottsdale, Arizona has called for drastic change following the hosting of last week’s Wasted Management Phoenix Open. The 92nd anniversary of the PGA Tour event known affectionately as ‘The People’s Open’. experienced some of the worst behaviour seen for some times at the event eventually won in a play-off by Canadian Nick Taylor. The rain and the weather-related disruptions did little to quell the enormous drunkenness we witnessed at last week’s golf tournament. Local ...