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Soon-to-be new father Martin Laird has again joined the European Tour with a view of qualifying automatically for next year’s European Ryder Cup team at Gleneagles. Laird’s American-born wife, Megan is expecting to give birth two weeks before Laird defends his Valero Texas Open title in San Antonio. However Laird’s immediate focus is his last event this year and joining fellow Scot Stephen Gallacher in this week’s World Cup of Golf in Melbourne, Australia. It’s Laird’s first visit to ...

American Matt Kuchar has an extra special reason to successfully defend this week’s ISPA Handa World Cup of Golf. Last Sunday, Kuchar let slip Australian Masters victory to Australia’s in-form Adam Scott when the US Ryder Cup star’s 7-iron second shot into the 18th green caught a green side bunker from where Kuchar took a double bogey on route to a 68 to hand Scott a two shot victory in the defence of his title. And Kuchar, who is no stranger to Australia including spending his ...

Australia’s Adam Scott has praised countryman Jason Day for a decision to contest this week’s World Cup of Golf after Day lost family members killed in Typhoon Haiyan. Day has returned from his US residence to team with Scott despite losing his grandmother, an uncle and six young cousins in the typhoon that recently struck the Philippines. Government sources believe more than 3,000 people were killed in the storms that ravaged the country’s eastern shoreline while the United Nations Disaster ...

Simon Dyson returns to competition this week in South Africa despite facing a hearing early month to answer charges of allegedly cheating. The England golfer will tee-up in this week’s co-sanctioned South African Open and the following week’s Alfred Dunhill Championship and in what are the opening two events of the 2014 European Race to Dubai schedule. Dyson has been informed he has to appear before a European Tour Disciplinary panel hearing on December 5th in London following his disqualification ...

Louis Oosthuizen has been ruled out for 14 days after having cortisone injections in his lower back. Oosthuizen missed two months of action after withdrawing from the Open in July due to the long-standing problem and will be absent from next week’s Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek after being advised to rest. “I was really excited to play in the tournament so it is very disappointing to miss out,” said the 31-year-old South African, who has undergone the procedure to reduce ...

Rory McIlroy has some timely advice for Ireland’s newest European Tour member in Kevin Phelan. The 23-year old Phelan successfully negotiated his way into the 2014 Race to Dubai in birding the last hole after six gruelling rounds to finish 17th among the leading 25 qualifiers at last week’s European Tour Q-School in Spain. The Ballygunner golfer turned pro soon after this year’s Walker Cup and made his pro debut in September at the KLM Open in Holland. However since he was about ...

Sweden’s Henrik Stenson has created history becoming the first golfer ever to win the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup and European Tour’s Race to Dubai in the same season. Stenson shot a final round eight under par 64 that included an eagle at the last to capture the year-ending DP World Tour Championship by six shots with a 25-under par victory tally on the Earth Course at the Jumeriah Estates course. Stenson also is only the second Swede in the history of the European Tour to capture the ...