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Four-time major-winning Rory McIlroy faced the media ahead of this week’s inaugural Cognizant Classic, fielding a variety of questions from within the comfort of the media centre at PGA National at Palm Beach Gardens. McIlroy faced questions dealing with the present state of his game, his thoughts on whether he thinks this week’s host course has been toned-down since he last teed-up in 2018, the reason why he’s ended his six-year absence to compete this week and quizzed at this ...

Good news with newly-crowned Irish-born Joe Lyons being reuninted with his Spanish Senior Open victory trophy. In one of the more bizarre golf-related stories for some time Lyons and his wife, Vera arrived at Seville Airport to board a return flight to Cork However, the Lyons’ had extra luggage in the form of the trophy the 51-year-old, and reigning Irish Seniors Open champ, was handed in also adding this Spanish title to his golfing CV and winning the event by four shots. hUnfortuantely, ...

Top Scot Robert MacIntyre gets to tee-up in his new home state of Florida for a first time in his rookie PGA Tour season at this week’s Cognizant Classic at West Palm Beach. The $US 9m event is around a 160-mile drive, south on the Florida Turnpike from MacIntyre’s rented Isleworth Estate abode in Orlando. The Oban lefty will be riding easy after last week’s season-best of a T6th at the Mexican Open earned MacIntyre a cool £stg 223,270 and with just a second pay cheque in his five starts this ...

The Fortrose & Rosemarkie Golf Club located in the Highlands of Scotland, unfortunately experienced some of the worst damage in the history of the club at the end of October 2023 brought on by Storm Ciaran. Of course, Fortrose and Rosemarkie was not alone as Scottish golf clubs up and down the east coast of the Home of Golf nation also suffered damage. Unfortunately, Storm Ciaran flexed its muscles menacingly at Fortrose and Rosemarkie Golf Links, as the accompanying photographs taken ...

Top Scot Bob MacIntyre got the putter working to secure himself a best rookie PGA Tour season finish at the Mexican Open. MacIntyre, and despite bogeys at his 16th and 17th holes, regrouped to birdie the last in posting a final round 69 for a share of sixth place at 13-under. He said: “It was a good week with a lot of positives.  I had been playing good the last couple of weeks but just struggled over the putter, so everything is starting to feel a lot more comfortable”. The Oban lefty ...

Best mates Connor Syme and Ewen Ferguson are just a shot apart and well in contention for victory heading to the final round at the Magical Kenya Open in Nairobi. The tartan duo each birdied the last hole in similar scores of 70 for Syme to be just two shots back at eight-under and his Modest Golf management stablemate, Ferguson at seven-under and three off the leading pace. Dutchman Darius Van Deil (68) and Spaniard Manuel Elvira (67) lead the way by two shots at 10-under. Syme shares third with ...

A closing hole eagle sent Scot Connor Syme soaring into a share of the lead heading to the weekend round of the Magical Kenya Open in Nairobi. Syme, 28, was struggling with 10 straight pars ahead of brilliantly landing his second shot to just four-feet at the par-5 18th and holing the putt in a round of 68 to be tied at the top on seven-under at the host Muthaiga course. The Fifer joined Finland’s Tapio Pulkkanen (68) and Dutchman Darius Van Dreel (69) , a stroke clear of three players including ...