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Martin Laird reckons Bob MacIntyre’s presence full-time on the PGA Tour  is a huge lift for Scottish men’s pro golf. Laird, 41, has been used to having Scottish company competing on the Tour for well over a decade thanks to fellow countryman Russell Knox. However, the double-Tour winning Knox lost full Tour status last year and it was only last week at the Puerto Rico Open the Inverness-born played a first Tour since the end of last year. In fact, there were three Scots last week teeing-up ...

Matteo Manassero brilliantly ended a 3,942 days DP World Tour winless drought and climbing back to game’s highest level in capturing the co-sanctiond Jonsson Workwear Open in Jobugh. Manassero claimed an emotional fifth Tour victory but only after play was halted for nearly two hours due to lightning, strong winds and heavy rain and with the the Italian and six others still to complete their rounds on the host Glendower course in the north-eastern suburbs of the South African capital. The champion ...

Scot Connor Syme is looking to make it a third time lucky heading into the final round of the Jonsson Workwear Open in Joburg. Syme, 28, jumped into the overtaking on golf’s traditional ‘moving day’ posting a bogey-free six-under 66 with the effort taking him to 15-under and four shots off the lead. Former Italian teenage sensation Matteo Manassero benefitted from an hour’s lightning delay, and with just two holes to play, as he returned to birdie 17 in a score of 67 and lead by a shot at ...

EXCLUSIVE …. Top-ranked Scot MacIntyre battled the hot windy conditions in a comfortable round of 67 to be assured of playing all four rounds in his maidan appearance in the Puerto Rico Open. MacIntye is the highest world-ranked in the field at World No. 68 and was five-under through 11 holes but finished a little short-changed in playing the last eight holes at just one under, with three birdies and one less bogey in his score of 67. It handed him a top-20 position as the afternoon half of ...

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, ...

Scotland’s affable Connor Syme is back banging on a hopeful first Tour victory door grabbing five birdies in a four-under 68 on the opening day of Jonsson Workwear Open at Edenvale in the north-east suburbs of Joburg. Syme, 28, birdied three of his opening six holes and then two of his closing three to be inside the top-20 and four adrift of the leading duo of Spaniard Ivan Cantero and South African Keenan Davidse. Two back of the lead is South African Robin ‘Tiger’ Williams, and named ...