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John Senden’s victory at the 2014 Valspar Championship. He wins his second PGA Tour title in his 345th start and ends a victory drought of seven years, eight months since winning the 2006 John Deere Classic After a pair of runner-up finishes at Innisbrook (2007 & 2008), Senden wins the Valspar Championship in his 11th appearance in the event. Senden becomes the sixth different international player to win the Valspar Championship and the first Australian-born champion. He becomes the second ...

John Senden is Augusta National bound after a dramatic victory in the Valspar Championship on the famed Copperhead course at the Innisbrook Resort Tampa Bay. Senden came from a shot behind heading into the final round to birdie two of his closing three holes and win by a stroke from American KevinNa with a final round 70 for a seven under par tally. Senden set up victory taking the venom out of the famed Snake Pit and the affectionate name for the three hole closing stretch – the par four ...

England’s Charley Hull holed a nerve-wracking four foot birdie putt on the first play-off hole, the par-3 18th at Golf de l’Ocean in Agadir, to earn her first Ladies European Tour victory at the Lalla Meryem Cup in Morocco a week before her 18th birthday. The second year LET member from Kettering in Northamptonshire fired a career-low round of nine-under-par 62 in the final round, coming from five strokes behind overnight leader Gwladys Nocera to tie with the 12-time tournament winner on 15-under-par ...

Darren Clarke admitted he had St. Patrick’s Day in mind when he pulled on a pair of green trousers for the final round of the Valspar Championship in Tampa Bay. In fact, Clarke was among three players spotted wearing the same Augusta National green coloured pants on day four. Italy’s Matteo Manassero has been wearing the same coloured pants on a Sunday since turning pro and in memory of boyhood hero, Seve Ballesteros. However Clarke’s Sunday splash of colour, and in an event where ...

Padraig Harrington played the last nine holes of the Valspar Championship in the company of just his caddy after playing partner and fellow Open Champion Mark Calcavecchia was forced to withdraw through illness. Calcavecchia and the 1989 Open Champion had been suffering with a stomach complaint for two days and felt so ill he did not want to shake Harrington’s hand on the first tee fearing passing on the illness to his double Open Championship winning colleague. Calcavecchia managed to birdie ...

Armed with local knowledge, Moroccan golfers have signed up in big numbers, determined to make home advantage count when they compete in next week’s Royal D’Anfa Open, the opening event on the 2014 MENA Golf Tour schedule in the Moroccan port city of Mohammedia. Since the inception of the tour in 2011, Moroccans have featured prominently in all events, underlining their numero uno status in the Arab world with a string of top-10 finishes and two seconds against quality international field. Though ...

Spain’s Alejandro Canizares has stormed his way to a five shot success in the Hassan 11 Trophy in Agadir, Morocco. The Madrid born Canizares was never challenged over the four days and despite taking a double bogey at the last he collect the ceremonial winner’s dagger and also his second European Tour victory with a 21-under par tally on the Golf du Palais Royal course laid out along the Atlantic Ocean shoreline. Canizares posted a final round two under par 70 to end a eight-year winless ...