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Aussie Elvis Smiley hit all the right notes in seizing a one-shot lead in the opening round of the BMW PGA Championship in Brisbane. Smylie, 22 brilliantly birdied three of his closing four holes in a six-under 65  on the rain-softened host Royal Queensland course in the Queensland capital. Four players – Frenchman Victor Perez, Swiss Joel Girrbach, Colombian Cristobal Del Solar and Aussie Matias Sanchez – share second thanks to rounds 66. Eight others, including three-time past Australian ...

Eight major championship winners will be heading to Saudia Arabia early next month for the sixth hosting of the US$5million PIF Saudi International powered by SoftBank Investment Advisers. The season-ending Asian Tour International Series event is being held from the 4th to 7th December and for a first time at the famed Riyadh Golf Club in the Saudi capital. Major champions include five former Masters winners Bubba Watson, Sergio Garcia, Charles Schwartzel, Dustin Johnson and Patrick Reed and they ...

The PGA Tour Policy Board today approved competitive changes supported by the Player Advisory Council (PAC) that will deliver a stronger and more competitive and entertaining PGA TOUR to fans, players, tournaments and partners. The initiative addresses key areas of feedback from the membership over the course of 2024, most notably the need to provide equitable playing opportunities and certainty of schedule for members who have earned a PGA TOUR card. Other changes include field size adjustments ...

Spanish superstar Sergio Garcia has become eligible to qualify for next year’s 2025 European Ryder Cup side with confirmation he had paid outstanding fines owed to the DP World Tour (DPWT). Garcia and others had until yesterday (November 17th) to pay the fines and with sources saying that the 10-time Ryder Cup star transferred the sum into the DPWT coffers and reported be around $1.2m. “Sergio Garcia submitted his application to return to membership of the DP World Tour for the 2025 season ...

Scot Stephen Gallacher tees-up in California tomorrow (Tuesday) with the confidence of triple Major winning Padraig Harrington that the Scot will qualify for over-50’s Champions Tour. Gallacher, who turned 50 on November 1st, has travelled with caddying son Jack to be among 63 players who’ll tee-up on the Socoda Springs course at San Jacinto and around 100 miles east of LAX. The top-20 will then head early next month to the famed TPC Scottsdale course in Arizona, and venue each year for the Phoenix ...

The sixth hosting of the Asian Tour’s final touranment of the season is set to boast 44 LIV Golf players from the tour contingent of 54 players and who’ll tee-up early next month in the PIF International in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. After five successful years at Royal Greens Golf & Country Club in King Abdullah Economic city, the 2024 edition will make its debut at the Riyadh Golf Club in the Saudi capital. Florida-based Mexican and LIV golfer Abraham Ancer took home the trophy ...

Rory McIlroy broke down in tears in joining boyhood hero Seve Ballesteros as a six-time DP World Tour No. 1. McIlroy has many times shown his passion for the game of golf but he had tears running down his face in describing what it meant to match Seve’s achievements. And McIlroy did so in this year’s 16th version of the seaon-ending DP World Tour Championship not only capturing the tournament for a third occasion and in the process winning the ‘double’ for a third time in ...