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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 ...

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 ...

Scots Martin Laird and Robert MacIntyre have been strangely dropped from the entry list teeing-up in this week’s historic $20m Arnold Palmer Invitational at the Bay Hill club in Orlando. MacIntyre is now based just two miles from the host this week’s Florida course but instead he’s driven past the Bay Hill turnoff on route to the airport and joins Laird in this week’s Tour sanctioned event over 1,100 miles away in Puerto Rico. The current World No. 68 MacIntyre arrived on ...

EXCLUSIVE … Top-Scot Bob MacIntyre is staring at two of the biggest exclusive tournaments of his short PGA Tour career he’ll contest this week in his new home state of Florida. MacIntyre will tee-up tomorrow (Monday) for a first time in the Seminole Player/Member outing at the just as exclusive Donald Ross designed Seminole Club course at Juno Beach. The Scot along former Scottish Open champ Rickie Fowler are in the fourball behind Tiger Woods, who is returning to competition for a ...

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  ...