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Fresh from naming his three picks and additional Vice-Captains, Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley has announced another decision ahead of leading the European team against the USA at Gleneagles. The popular Irishman with an International Business Degree has increased the level of his personal investment in Europe’s biggest golf club rental firm, ClubstoHire.com, in which he was a founding investor in 2010. He has also committed to represent the Dublin-based enterprise – with its 21 locations ...

England golfer Andy Sullivan said he is prepared to go into outer space after earning the prize of a flight to 330.000 feet above the earth with a hole-in-one during the final round of the KLM Open. Sullivan’s hole-in-one came at the 163-yard 15th hole at Kennemer Golf Club to earn the prize on route to being placed third behind fellow Englishman Paul Casey. The bizarre $100,000 prize of a flight aboard the XCOR spaceship had created enormous interest all week at Zandvoort and with Sullivan ...

Texan Billy Horschel is golf’s newest $10m man after denying World No. 1 Rory McIlroy to capture the PGA Tour season-ending Tour Championship in Atlanta. Horcschel captured a second Play-Off Series event in succession with a final round 68 to win by three shots on the  East Lake course in suburban Atlanta. And after missing cut in the opening event, the Barclays Championship in New Jersey Horschel has banked close to $13m over the past three weeks with his ‘no frills’ display. Horschel ...

If Henrik Stenson wasn’t playing golf and representing Europe next week they he reckons he’d probably be selling ‘Henrik’s High Test Porridge Bears’. The European Team member with the most bizarre wit is back into the Ryder Cup and now ready to have his USA Team rivals choke on his ‘munchable’ bears. It’s been six years since the Swede has waited to avenge defeat in his last Ryder Cup appearance. After having humbled American Vaughan Taylor 4 & 3 to help Europe to victory at the ...

USA Ryder Cup rookie Patrick Reed is set to rock the Ryder Cup establishment with his wife Justine likely to skip ‘Wives Week’ and caddy for her husband at Gleneagles. Reed cemented his place in Tom Watson’s side some six months ago with victory in the WGC – Cadillac Championship at Doral in suburban Miami. It was the Texan’s third PGA Tour success and third occasion he had his wife on the bag, and on this occasion with his wife just months away from the couple’s first child. (Windsor-Wells ...

A 15th hole eagle putt from just off the green at the 15th hole of the East Lake course send Rory McIlroy soaring to a share of the lead and the strong chance now to swoop on the $10m FedEx Cup Play-Off winning bonus. McIlroy’s 26-foot eagle putt sent him into a tie for the lead on 9-under par with American Billy Horschel and with a round to play in the PGA Tour season-ending Tour Championship. Both players then pared the remaining three holes to end the third round two shots clear of their ...

The city of Dubai will now play host to the season-ending event on both the European and Asian Tour’s with news the city will play host to Asian Tour’s final event of 2014 in December, underscoring the buoyancy of the golf industry in the country and across the region. The European Tour’s DP World Tour Championship will be staged from November 20th to 23rd and with the Asian Tour’s Dubai Open, as it will be known, to be staged from December 11th to 14th at a venue to be confirmed. The ...