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Rory McIlroy has just this week’s defence of his WGC title in Texas to get back to some consistency before teeing up in the Masters. In a complete turnaround from his third round, McIlroy grabbed two eagles including finishing eagle, par and birdie in a blistering seven under par to get back from McIlroy’s effort over the four days included scores of 75, 67, 75 and jumping more than 40 places up the leader board with a closing 65. On Saturday, McIlroy had equalled an unwanted PGA Tour first in ...

Maiden Masters competitor Russell Knox will honour of the memory of his late coach in having Fleming’s son Neal Fleming to be his caddy in the Masters Par 3 Contest on the eve of the year’s first Major. Mike Fleming had been Knox’s coach at Jacksonville University for nearly a decade before he passed away in April, 2014 at age 71. Knox had brought Fleming from Inverness to the States to be his coach and that relationship carried on when Knox finally qualified full-time for the PGA Tour for ...

Rory McIlroy’s Augusta aspirations were handed another huge jolt in posting a PGA Tour three double bogeys in shock 75 on day three of the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando. The PGA Tour advised it is, in fact, the fourth time in 105 PGA Tour counting events, since the 2007 Open Championship at Carnoustie, McIlroy’s recorded a trio of double bogeys in one PGA Tour round. It was also McIlroy’s second 75 in three days at Bay Hill and with the only bright light being a second round 67 ...

Aussie Terry Pilkadaris will find himself the villain should he succeed in capturing the Hero Indian Open. The Perth-born Pilkadaris will head to the find round two shots behind India’s SSP Chawrasia and also two shots clear of two other Indians in third place. Chawrasia put himself in pole position for a third career victory at Delhi Golf Club with a flawless third round 68 as he now looks to win his national Open for a first tiem after victories in the 2008 Indian Masters and the Panasonic ...

Here’s something you may not have known but Jamie Lovemark played in the same 2007 winning USA Walker Cup winning team as Rickie Fowler, Dustin Johnson and Billy Horschell. Among those in the opposing GB & I team they beat that year was the likes of Rory McIlroy and Danny Willett. But while all five have really gone on to make their presence felt on golf’s world stage, the now 27-year old California-born Lovemark, due to injury, has not been able to join his Walker Cup winning colleagues ...

Jason Day, and not for a first time this week, spoke of his burning passion to get back to World No. 1. It’s been six months since Day stormed to World No. 1 on the back of his six-shot success in FexEx Cup Play-Off Series BMW Championship at Conway Way Farms in suburban Chicago. Indeed, Day was an unstoppable World No. I towards the later half of 2015 steam-rolling his way to four victories in six tournaments. However his time on the throne was short-lived with Day hardly getting time to warm ...

An hour overnight on the practice range got Rory McIlroy sorted out bouncing back with a 67 on the second day of the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando. McIlroy could hardly hit the side of a barn door on day one, including sending his very first tee shot onto the range when returned before emerging on day two, hitting nine of 14 fairways and five more than a day earlier at Bay Hill. The current World No. 2 moved from three over par to two under but faces an Everest-like task over the weekend ...