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American and LIV golfer Peter Uihlein shared the lead on day one of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship and revealing how it came about the head of the Saudi-based PIF fund Yasir Al-Rumayyan and also head of LIV Golf  is his amateur partner for the week in Scotland. Uihlein signed for a sizzling eight-under 64 in cold and sometimes rainy conditions on the famed Old Course at St. Andrews, and end the opening day sharing the lead with Swede Sebastian Soderberg, who was out earlier on the Old Course ...

It’s been just over a month since Mark Power last teed-up on the famed Old Course and that being the disppointment of losing the 2023 GB & I Walker Cup to the visiting Americans. However, it definitlely not Power’s mood with the Irishman buoyed returning to the Auld Grey Toon now as a rookie professional competing on the DP World Tour. The 23-year-old Kilenny golfer, and despite a penultimate hole bogey, had signed for a two-under-par 70 on the opening day of the $US 5m Alfred Dunhill Links ...

There’s no missing the sight of Alfred Dunhill Links Championship banners about the Old Course here in St. Andrews lowered at half-mast. It is a moving tribute to Sir Michael Bonallack, the former long-time Secretary of the R & A who passed away late last month. However, the sight of the flags fluttering at half-mast brought back immediate memories of cricketing legend Shane Warne. ‘Warnie’, as he affectionately known worldwide, passed away in March 2022 aged just 52, and it ...

Victorious Celtic Manor winning hero Grame McDowell admits it was a ‘bittersweet experience’ watching TV coverage of last week’s victorious European Ryder Cup triumph in Rome. “It was a little bittersweet, and I would love to have been part of what they were doing but it is what it is right now and hopefully we’ll see if we can figure that out moving forward,” said McDowell ahead of this week’s Asian Tour International Singapore. “But obviously a great ...

‘Proud’ and ‘Incredible’ .. Words chosen, the first by Tommy Fleetwod and then Matt Fitzpatrick to describe the experience of last week’s European success at the Ryder Cup. They’re words that would you expect to hear from the champion English duo but to ask them directly ‘To choose one word to describe what unfolded at the 44th Ryder Cup?”, and then to witness both pause for a second or two to provide a reply was, in inself, worth countless number of ...

Victorious Rome vice-captain Thomas Bjorn says it’s the winning players who should decide if they want Luke Donald leading the European Ryder Cup side to Bethpage Park on Long Island. Bjorn found it a nice distraction being congratulated at every turn as he worked on his game yesterday (Tuesday) ahead of this week’s Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in St. Andrews. It was not the same euphoria for Bjorn as four years ago post leading Europe to victory in Versailles but there was no shortage of ...

For a second occsaion in two years John Murphy returns to the Home of Golf inspired by a Ryder Cup. Murphy sounded energised after spending early last Friday morning to early Sunday evening glued to television cheering on Luke Donald’s Roman golfing gladiators, and including fellow Irish-born Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry, as they took down their American rivals. And why wouldn’t the Kinsale golfer be soaking-in the scenes of last Sunday afternoon, as we all were, as Europe muscled their way to ...