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Double Major winner Rory McIlroy has smashed what is believed to be the European’s Tour second longest drive during his new Royal Aberdeen course record breaking seven under par 64 on day one of the Scottish Open. The 25-year old McIlroy managed to find the green with his wind-assisted drive at the 436-yard par four 13th hole. While the European Tour does not keep records of long drives www.golfbytourmiss.com was on hand at the Maderia Islands Open in 2012 to report on the what is believed ...

The ‘Flying Sikh’, and the star of the Bollywood smash hit movie ‘Run Milkha Run’, met Scotland’s First Minister today at the Royal Aberdeen course. Milkha Singh is the father to European Tour professional golfer Jeev Milkha Singh and with the now 84-year winning a gold medal at the 1954 Commonwealth Games along with four Asian Games gold medals but then going agonizingly close to an Olympic gold medal in 1960 in Rome. Stuart Adams (www.golftourimages.com) snapped the ...

Phil Mickelson played one of the most bizarre shots on the opening day of the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open at Royal Aberdeen. The five-time Major winner hit a wild drive left down the par four 14th hole that came to rest within inches of a privacy screen surrounding a portable toilet for use by the competitors. However when the visiting American took relief his golf ball came to rest on a bitumen path. With a rules official looking on Mickelson asked if he had to play his ball from the ...

Double Major winning Rory McIlroy has put himself into the Royal Aberdeen record books with a new course record of a seven-under 64 on the opening day of the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open. McIlroy grabbed eight birdies including four in succession from the eighth hole to end the day one shot clear of Sweden’s Kristoffer Broberg and Argentina’s Ricardo Gonzalez. Officially it had Broberg who ended his round some two hours before McIlroy to break the record before McIlroy while ...

Phil Mickelson arrived for his Scottish Open defence smarting after he and long-time caddy Jim ‘Bones’ MacKay defeated Harrington and his long-standing caddy, Ronan Flood in a long awaited nine-hole showdown played earlier this week at the nearly Trump International Scotland course. “It was a really big day for us, a player caddy match and it’s been years in the work with snap talk all the time between Padraig and Ronan, and me and Bones,” said Mickelson. “So it came to a head Tuesday ...

Five-time Major winning Phil Mickelson was singing the praise of the two-year old Trump International Golf Links Scotland course ahead of his Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open defence. Mickelson, along with many of the leading competitors in this week’s event, is staying at lodges on the stunning Martin Hawtree designed course just north of Royal Aberdeen. Joining Mickelson in staying on site is fellow Americans Jimmy Walker, Rickie Fowler and Ryan Palmer along with leading Europeans in Rory ...

Rory McIlroy and Padraig Harrington are adamant it would foolish to right off chances of Tiger Woods capturing a 15th Major Championship at next week’s Open Championship at Royal Liverpool. The Irish players were responding to recent comments, particularly those of double US Open winner Curtis Strange, who suggested Woods ‘would be lying to himself’ if he went into next week’s championship saying he could win. Woods has contested just one event since undergoing back surgery and that was missing ...