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USA Ryder Cup captain Tom Watson has continued to gamble in announcing a second ‘old brigade buddie’ in Raymond Floyd to join Andy North as his Gleneagles vice-captains. A day after www.golfbytourmiss.com reported the 64-year old Watson would have trouble even identifying the majority of players currently among the top-10 on the USA Team points table and Watson has picked a 71-year old vice captain who also would be unknown to all but two in the current 1o on the points table. Watson’s ...

Triple winning Presidents Cup captain Fred Couples suggests US Ryder Cup Captain Tom Watson should start ‘texting’ to get to better know his likely Gleneagles players. Watson is already the oldest-ever Ryder Cup captain and two years senior than the great J H Taylor who captained the 1933 GB & I side to victory. The eight-time Major winning Watson will also be 65 when he leads his team out onto Gleneagles and eight years older than the previous oldest US captain Sam Snead who was ...

Newly crowned Joburg Open winner George Coetzee has reluctantly withdrawn from this week’s Africa Open. And Coetzee has nine million good reasons for this decision after a maiden Tour win saw him jump from 74th to a career high of 59th on the World Rankings and the assurance of contesting next week’s $US 9m WGC – Accenture Match-Play Championship in Arizona. As well, the affable 27-year old South African will also miss the Sunshine Tour’s Dimension Data Pro-Am at Fancourt given it ...

As the game’s governing body committed to a longtime mission of preserving, promoting and celebrating the very best traditions and characteristics of the game, the United States Golf Association (USGA) today announced the late Payne Stewart as the recipient of the 2014 Bob Jones Award. Stewart will be honored during a public ceremony as part of the festivities surrounding the 2014 U.S. Open Championship. Presented annually since 1955, the Bob Jones Award is the USGA’s highest honor. It recognizes ...

World No. 1 Tiger Woodsone was left memorised after meeting one of legends of cricket in India’s Sachin Tendulkar. The pair caught up earlier today (Tues) at Woods hotel in Delhi and prior to 14-time Major heading to the Delhi G C where he was competing in an exhibition match. And Woods was so impressed following his meeting with India’s superstar batsman and his family , the visiting American wrote on Twitter that the batting genius was a “cool” guy. Woods tweeted:  “Just ...

Tiger Woods left a new-found India fan based memorised with a blistering nine under par 63 in his very first golf game in India. Woods, who was reputed paid $US 1.2m for a one day visit to the largest democracy, had never set sights on the Delhi Golf Club course that has hosted more than 25 India Open’s. Not only did Woods bring the old fashioned course to its knees but the 14-time Major winner also conquered hearts of the thousands of people who came to have a glimpse of him. After finishing ...

Tiger Woods has teed up on the Delhi Golf Club and we have the first photographs.