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Ryder Cup rookie Bob MacIntyre gestured to hurl his putter into the drink after a frustrating opening round at the Cazoo French Open in Versailles. MacIntyre, and the lone Rome player in the French field, posted a no-frills level-par 71 to be well outside the top-70 heading the second round on the Le National course. The Scottish lefty got off to a good start with three birdies in his opening six holes, including holing a 21-footer for birdie at the first, but he then proceeded to give the three ...

Scottish teenage sensation Connor Graham excitedly jets out to Rome on Friday with his Junior Ryder Cup team-mates looking forward to ending a six straight and now 17-year long European losing streak to their American rivals. Graham, who turns 17 at the end of next month, wound-up his Rome preparations sharing 22nd place after receiving an invitation to contest the Tartan Tour’s St. Andrews Classic but ending in bright and extremely windy third and final round conditions on the Jubilee Course at ...

Immediate past captain Padraig Harrington has handed Robert MacIntyre a glowing confidence lift just weeks away from the Ryder Cup in Rome. MacIntyre, along with England’s Tommy Fleetwood, earned the final two automatic qualifying spots into Luke Donald’s European side and with MacIntyre a first Scot since Stevie Gallacher in 2014 to be pulling on the European team colours. Harrington, and a playing veteran of six European Teams, led Europe two years into battle along the shores of Lake Michigan ...

Earlier this year the DP World Tour debuted the Hero Cup featuring a 10-man GB & I team going up against a similar number of Europe players competing over three days in Abu Dhabi. The Hero Cup was a mirror of the long-running Seve Trophy that brought European Tour players together in a Ryder Cup like atomsphere and help prepare them for possible Ryder Cup-like competition should they qualify or be picked to represent Europe in a Ryder Cup. Of the 20 players who teed-up January in the UAE capital ...

European captain Luke Donald has surprised many in handing young Swedish superstar-in-the-making Ludvig Aberg as one of his six ‘wildcard’ picks to take to Rome later this. Aberg, 23, brilliantly captured last Sunday’s Omega European Masters and in only his ninth event as a professional, and a fifth on the DP World since making his debut as an amateur at the 2018 Nordic Masters. Fleetwood’s other picks were Tommy Fleetwood, Sepp Straka, Justin Rose, Shane Lowry and Nicolai ...

Crack open the champers! With Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre securing a maiden European Ryder Cup cap. The proud Oban lefty becomes the 23rd Scot to represent Scotland in a Ryder Cup since Stirling’s Stewart Burns in 1929 and with MacIntyre the first Scot in nine years to pull on the European team colours. MacIntyre was on route to Geneva Airport and return flight home when confirmation of his automatic selection in Luke Donald’s European side was confirmed and this after Poland’s ...

For any golfer, ending a round with a double-bogey is no good cause to be hanging around for a relaxing beverage and a long fireside-like chat. No, Robert MacIntyre wasted little time in packing-up his golf clubs and jumping in a waiting courtesy car for the two-hour odd journey to Geneva Airport and a flight back to his beloved Scotland. It had been a third straight frustrating visit to the Omega European Masters for MacIntyre, as evident in taking a double-bogey down the final hole after sending ...