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Three-time Masters champion Phil Mickelson has ruled out playing practice rounds Monday and Tuesday after withdrawing with a back injury after 10 holes in the third round of the Valero Texas Open. Mickelson was one over par at the time and four over par for the event when he advised his playing partners Stuart Appleby and John Merrick he could no longer continue in the $US 6.2m event. “My back’s feeling great, my body’s been feeling great,” he said. “I felt as good ...

Five-time Major winning Phil Mickelson is now in doubt for next week’s Shell Houston Open after being forced out with a back injury after 10 holes on day three of the Valero Texas Open. The reigning Open Champion showed no signs of being in any pain prior to leaving the course in a golf buggy and with his daughter sitting on his lap. However he briefly advised officials he was struggling with an oblique muscle strain in his back. Mickelson, who was one over par at the time, headed straight ...

Five-time Major winning Phil Mickelson has ruled out the likelihood of taking two drivers into competition for next fortnight’s Masters at Augusta National. Mickelson no doubt created Masters history in 2006 winning a first green jacket in winning by two strokes and using two drivers. Now with the Masters coming up immediately following next week’s Shell Houston Open, the American was asked if he would consider again taking two drivers into the season’s first Major Championship. “It’s ...

Thailand’s champion golfer has exacted revenge on Graeme McDowell in helping his Asian Tour to tie the inaugural EurAsia Cup in Kuala Lumpur. Jaidee had lost out to McDowell in the final of the 2013 Volvo Match-Play Championship in Bulgaria but turned the table on the world’s highest ranked player competing  in Malaysia with a 3 & 2 defeat over the Ryder Cup star. And the very popular double Asian Tour No. 1 ranked Jaidee continued to display his match-play prowess after being snubbed ...

The emerging strength of Asian golf was for all to see when Team Asia completed a remarkable comeback to share the inaugural EurAsia Cup presented by DRB-HICOM with Europe on Saturday. Trailing 0-5 after the opening fourball session and 3-7 after Friday’s foursomes, Team Asia, who was captained by three-time Order of Merit winner Thongchai Jaidee of Thailand, dug deep and showed their fighting spirit by winning six matches and halving two matches to tie the match at 10-10 for a share of ...

Australia’s Steven Bowditch created a PGA Tour career first in leading a tour event at any stage in his professional career. Despite taking a double bogey at the final hole, the unshaven Bowditch’s round of 67 was razor sharp for an overall eight under par tally and a one stroke lead at the halfway stage in the $US 6.2m Valero Texas Open being playing on the TPC Marriott course in San Antonio. The 30-year old Dallas-based Aussie was among 45 players who were unable to complete their first ...

Soon-to-be-married Russell Knox celebrated making it 11 from 13 halfway cuts this season with a two under par 70 on day two of the Valero Texas Open in San Antonio. The Scot bounced back from Thursday’s fog-delayed start to his round when he walked off in near darkness with a round of 74. Knox capped his second by holing an 84-foot bunker shot for eagle at the par five 14th hole on the Greg Norman designed course. He said:  “I’m really happy I’ve made another cut but then I played pretty ...