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Three-time Open champion Tiger Woods left Edinburgh Airport around 6.30am this morning (Sunday) vowing he will come back stronger after bowing out of the 144th Open by missing the cut in two major championships in a row for the first time. Woods, 39, finished the weather-delayed second round with a three-over-par 75 for a seven-over aggregate of 151 and 17 shots behind fellow American Dustin Johnson enjoyed a one shot lead at 10-under par at the halfway stage of golf’s oldest major “Next ...

Saturday is traditionally moving day in any golf tournament but the exception this week is the 144th Open Championship. There has only been 32 minutes of golf today and it’s still the second round of golf’s oldest Major. First there had been a 3 hour and 14 minute delay on Friday morning due to heavy rain and then when play restarted at 7am this morning balls began being blown off the greens so much so that 32 minutes later play was again suspended. Firstly, with no prospect of play until ...

Fellow Masters champion Adam Scott has singled out Jordan Spieth for special praise in honouring his decision to defend this year’s Australian Open in Sydney. Spieth has often this season singled out his success this season, that has included back-to-back victories at Augusta National and the U.S. Open, to his tearaway six stroke triumph last December at The Australian Club. Spieth, who finished 24 strokes ahead of World No. 1 and defending champion Rory McIlroy, then headed to Orlando where seven ...

Three years ago Adam Scott was four holes away from lifting the most famous trophy in all of golf – the gleaming Claret Jug. And like 2012 at Royal Lytham and St. Annes Scott’s birthday falls due the week of the Open Championship. In fact, Scott turned 35 today and celebrated with a first round two under par 72 on the Old Course at St. Andrews. If left the Bahamas-based Aussie trailing five shots behind big-hitting Dustin Johnson who had been out in the earlier and calmer morning conditions. Of ...

‘D J’ or Dustin Johnson just will not go away and nor does he want to. A month after experiencing a third Major Championship heartache and Johnson bounced back to lead The Open Championship at St Andrews. The big-hitting American fired a seven under 65 over the Old Course for a one-stroke advantage over the field, but Jordan Spieth – the man who denied him in the US Open at Chambers Bay – is only two shots back as he chases a historic calendar grand slam. Paired together by the ...

“Good morning ladies and gentlemen to the 144th Open Championship.  This is Game No. 1.  On the tee from Australia, Rod Pampling”. Those were the familiar words of Ivor Robson officiating as the Official Starter for a last time. However it was a first for the Queensland-born Pampling and with the distinction of teeing off first in the 144th Open. Watching on was Pampling’s long-time coach Gary Edwin and in his fourth St. Andrews appearance. And for the record Pampling used a 3-iron ...

After Arnold Palmer’s team won Wednesday’s Champion Golfers’ Challenge, the stage is now set for The 144th Open Championship. Spear-heading the victory was 1999 Open champion Paul Lawrie who rolled in a curling 20-foot eagle putt at the second that was enough to secure first place for Team Palmer in the Champions Golfers’ Challenge. Minutes earlier his captain, Arnold Palmer, had walked onto the green to a standing ovation. His role now confined to a non-playing capacity and ...