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While the first of many grandstands is now starting to be erected at Gleneagles, European captain Paul McGinley stressed the success of the Ryder Cup could hinge on Tiger Woods competing in Scotland. Workmen took to the Jack Nicklaus designed PGA Centenary course last week ahead of play getting underway on September 26th. However with Woods currently well outside qualifying automatically the USA Team, the seven-time Ryder Cup star is going to need a Tom Watson ‘wildcard’ pick. And as McGinley ...

Australia’s Jason Day is in doubt for next fortnight’s Open Championship after being forced to withdraw from this week’s PGA Tour Greenbrier Classic. The World No. 6 with renewed concerns for his thumb that he re-injured in playing a shot beside ‘Mickelson’s Tree’ at the 13th hole during this year’s Masters at Augusta National. The reigning WGC – Accenture Match-Play Champion did not compete again to the first week of June when he teed-up in the Jack ...

Guaranteed Ryder Cup rookie Victor Dubuisson is struggling to embrace becoming a member of the European Team. The softly-spoken Frenchman has been atop of the European points table since capturing last October’s Turkish Airlines Open. Dubuisson then cemented his place in Paul McGinley’s team finishing runner-up in February’s WGC – Accenture Match-Play Championship while he strengthened his grip on the top qualifying spot being joint second in the recent Nordea Masters. In fact, the 24-year ...

Shane Lowry does not intend to sit idle this week after the comfort of securing a place into next fortnight’s British Open. Lowry was among four players to join the Royal Liverpool field and qualifying in remaining inside the top-20 on the Race to Dubai money list following Sunday’s concluding BMW International Open in Cologne. It will be Lowry’s third British Open appearance and comes just weeks after he finished the leading U.S. Open qualifier at Walton Heath. “I’ve never played Royal ...

Shane Lowry has boosted hopes of a fourth Irish success in eight years by qualifying for next fortnight’s British Open at Royal Liverpool. Lowry secured one of four places into golf’s oldest major by ending the BMW International Open inside the top-20 on the Race to Dubai money list. The German event ended in dramatic manner with Fabrizio Zanotti defeating World No. 2 Henrik Stenson at the fifth extra play-off hole, and also creating Tour history in becoming the first Paraguay-born player to ...

Zabrizio Zanotti is celebrating becoming the first Paraguay-born player to win on the European Tour defeating World No. 2 Henrik Stenson at the fifth extra play-off hole to capture the BMW International Open near Cologne, Germany. The 31-year old Asuncion-born player posted a final round 65 to join Stenson (67), Frenchman Gregry Havret (66) and Spain’s Rafa Cabrera-Bello (67) in the play-off in the Euro 2m event on the Gut Larcenhof course. After Havret dropped out at the second extra hole, the ...

England’s James Heath has won himself a gleaming new BMW after an ace at the par three 16th hole during the final round of the BMW International Open. The 31-year old Londoner hit a 171-yard 7-iron that found the bottom of the cut for Heath’s first European Tour hole-in-one. Heath earned himself a Euro 160,000 gleaming new BMW i8 coupe. BMW will ship the car to Heath’s Worcester Park residence and the only costs the English golfer will have to pay is any import duties. It is the ...