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Luke Donald has elected to remain as European Ryder Cup captain by agreeing to lead his side into competition at the 44th hosting of the competition in 2025 at Bethpage Park in New York. There were loud calls of ‘two more years, two more years, from his dozen Rome winning golfing gladiators soon after Europe’s comfortable five-point victory over the visiting Americans. And now, after discussions between his family, fellow players and the European Tour, Donald has agreed to stay on. It ...

Two months ago, Viktor Hovland and Collin Morikawa were Ryder Cup rivals in Rome However for the past two years, the Norwegian and the American have been sharing a house within the exclusive Albany resort in The Bahamas. Their house-sharing the last two years also ended with Hovland being handed the ‘Tiger’ trophy by tournament host, Tiger Woods and winning back-to-back matches also matched the effort by Woods in 2006 and ’07. Though in the 23-year history of the event no-one ...

Tiger Woods sat behind the microphone at a PGA Tour sanctioned event for a first occasion since April’s Masters however he wasted little time side-stepping any talk of taking over the captaincy reins of the USA 2025 Ryder Cup team. No sooner had the American side lost convincingly at this year’s 2023 Ryder Cup in Rome and Woods’ name was being strongly suggested as the replacement for the hapless Zach Johnson. Woods served as a vice captain at the 2018 Ryder Cup in Paris and was ...

Tiger Woods tees-up in this week’s Hero World Challenge ending a near seven-month absence from the game, and indicating that given a long history of personal injury that any future playing schedule would amount to one tournament per month. This week’s 20-player and now increased $4.5m field will be only Woods’ third event this year and his first since withdrawing due to injury following making the halfway cut at The Masters. In fact, Woods is also teeing-up in what will be just ...

David Rickman – and one of golf’s leading rules officials is set to retire from the R & A next year. After what will be 37 years of employment with the St Andrews-based governing body, Rickman will bring an end to a long and successful career in golf administration next October. As an expert Rules official, he will have refereed at almost 130 prestigious events in golf by the time he retires. In serving as Chief Referee at The Open next year at Royal Troon, Rickman will mark his 34th ...

Climbing the famed Sydney Harbour Bridge is a must for many on a visit to Australia’s first city but not for Robert MacIntyre. The top-ranked Scot is in Sydney for this week’s joint hosting of both the men’s and women’s Australian Open, and being held on both The Australian and The Lakes Golf Clubs. MacIntyre’s family has flown out from Scotland to support their Ryder Cup winning son as he seeks to become the first Scot in 128-years to lift the Stonehaven Cup when ...

There is no hotter brother-and-sister act in golf at present than Min Woo Lee and big sister, Minji. Between the pair of Aussie-born golfers they’ve won 17 tournaments on six different tours and four different continents, and this after both created history in becoming the first brother and sister act to capture the US Junior Amateur Championship – Minji in 2012 and brother Min Woo in 2016. The 28-year-old Minji is a two-time women’s major champion, capturing the 2021 Evian Championship ...