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Graeme McDowell has seen his chances of a successful RBC Heritage defence slip through his fingers on day three on the Harbor Town Golf Links course at Hilton Head. In overcast, cold and windy conditions McDowell posted three birdies, including birdies at his opening two holes, but also four bogeys in a round of one over 72 to finish also at one over in the $US 5.8m event. McDowell had been two under par in total through six holes in Friday’s second round when torrential rain forced an abandonment ...

Lee Westwood has seen his four shot lead cut to one after a final hole bogey on day three of the Maybank Malaysian Open in Kuala Lumpur. Westwood, who turns 41 next week, is now just one round away from capturing a second Malaysian Open title since winning the event in 1997 but also ending a near two-year winless drought. For a third day running Westwood birdied the opening hole of the Kuala Lumpur Golf Club course before dropping a shot with a three-putt bogey at the next hole. However the current ...

Italy’s Matteo Manassero celebrated his 21st birthday with a large chocolate cake and his lowest round in the Maybank Malaysian Open in Kuala Lumpur. The Verona-born golfer grabbed seven birdies in a five under par 67 to move to six under par and just outside the top-10 after three rounds in the co-sanctioned Asian and European Tour event he captured three years ago. Manassero turned professional in 2010 and a year after winning the British Amateur title as the then No. 1 world ranked amateur. Later ...

Reigning US Amateur champion Matthew Fitzpatrick celebrated making the cut for a first time in a PGA Tour event and then sang the praise of Crail Golfing Society in Scotland. It was quite strange how Fitzpatrick came to single out the ‘Seventh Oldest Golf Club in the World’. Here I was standing alongside good friend, colleague and fellow Crail member, Alex Miceli outside the locker room at the Harbor Town Golf Links course and venue for this week’s $US 5.8m RBC Heritage Classic ...

Reigning US Amateur champion Matthew Fitzpatrick has added more interest to this year’s Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open confirming he will tee-up for a first time at Royal Aberdeen. This news comes a day after the 19-year old Sheffield-born Fitzpatrick was selected in the GB & I squad for the St. Andrews Trophy late August in Sweden. Fitzpatrick, and with his ‘banned’ Augusta banned caddy Lorne Duncan back on the bag, posted a pair of 71s to easily make the cut in the RBC ...

Scotland’s Martin Laird slumped to his worst-ever score Stateside posting a horror 10-over par 81 to crash to near last place in the RBC Heritage Classic at Hilton Head in South Carolina. Laird’s round included four bogeys and three double bogeys and he managed to head for home before torrential rain halted play near 3pm local time before officials later abandoned play. His round was 10 shots more than an opening 71, and it’s Laird’s highest-ever US-based round on either the secondary ...

While heavy rain stalled Graeme McDowell’s RBC Heritage Classic defence aspirations his quest to qualify for this year’s Ryder Cup team remains completely buoyant. With one Major Championship already done and dusted this season, McDowell arrived in Hilton Head lying 14th overall and five places outside of automatically qualifying for Paul McGinley’s European Team. Also while two of his Medinah winning teammates in Lee Westwood and Luke Donald put themselves into contention to win this week, ...