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Scotland’s Ewen Ferguson remains quietly-confident of a first win this new season after a horror take-off and also a horror landing on day two of the 103rd KLM Open. The Bearsden golfer posted a second straight one-under 71 to be just inside the top-40 at two-under heading to the weekend rounds on the host Bernardus course at Cromvoit to the south-east of Rotterdam. Spaniard Jorge Campillo also signed for a 71 to remain in the lead and two shots clear at 10-under from Italian Renato Paratore ...

The news just gets better and better for PGA Championship crowd favourite Michael Block with confirmation he’s become a client of WME Sports Management. The 46-year-old, who stunned the sports world with a ‘slam dunk’ ace during last Sunday’s final round of the PGA Chjampionship, joins the likes of Jordan Spieth, Patrick Cantlay, Padraig Harrington and Francesco Molinari as a client of WME “WME Sports is proud to announce that we have signed Michael Block, the breakout ...

Michael Block did not have to wait long with confirmation he received an invitation to contest this week’s PGA Tour Charles Schwab Challenge in Fort Worth, Texas. Block, 46, endeared himself to sports fans around the globe making an ace in his final round of last Sunday’s PGA Championship playing in the company of four-time major winning Rory McIlroy. The California-based club pro eventually finishing T15th to not only earn a cheque for $288,000 but also an automatic entry into next year’s ...

Former Masters champion Sergio Garcia is all set to contest a 24th consecative US Open after posting back-to-back 66s at a sectional qualifier in northern Dallas to qualify for next month’s championship in suburban LA, Garcia, 43, shared fourth place among the eight leading qualifiers following two rounds of the Bent Tree and Northwood courses to the north of the Texas city. Included in Garcia’s afternoon 18 holes was a opening bogey but with the Spaniard then posting a 14th hole eagle ...

Former US Open winner Graeme McDowell and past Masters winner Sergio Garcia are among 270 players looking to secure a handful of places on Monday into next month’s championship in Los Angeles. McDowell and Garcia, each aged 43, will be teeing-up over 36 holes of the Northwood and the Bent Tree Country Club course, located about a 10 minute apart in the northern suburbs of Dallas, Texas. It’s 13-years ago when McDowell celebrated Father’s Day by winning the 2010 US Open at Pebble Beach and ...

It was a decade ago the 2013 PGA Championship was last staged at Oak Hill Country Club course at Pittsford in upstate New York. I had been in attendance at the 2011 championship when Keegan Bradley denied fellow American Jason Dufner in a play-off in suburban Atlanta, so when Dufner was assured of being handed the gleaming Rodman Wanamaker trophy two years on it was if Dufner had made amends for his play-off defeat. Dufner was then aged 36 and after losing out in a play-off at the 2012 Phoenix Open, ...

Realistically, there may be only two players but Luke Donald says the selection door is still open for those European-born LIV golfers who have not resigned from the DP World Tour. We learnt last week that as many five almost certain future European Ryder Cup captains currently playing on the LIV Golf tour resigned from the DP World Tour thus ruling out any chance of again playing for Europe. They included – Sergio Garcia, Graeme McDowell, Ian Poulter, Henrik Stenson and Lee Westwood. However, ...