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The son and former wife of the late, great Seve Ballesertos have been invited to take part in next year’s 25th anniversary Omega Dubai Desert Classic. Javier Ballesteros will contest the Wednesday Pro-Am that will include former champions Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, who have been asked to return to the Emirates Golf Club for the $2.5 million tournament from January 30th to February 2nd, 2014. Seve Balleseteros won the event in 1982 and his 23-year old son will represent his father. Javier ...

Sam Torrance revealed his GB & I side turned around a near Seve Trophy whitewash to forge to within a point of their rivals thanks to watching The Empire Strikes Back and listening to the stirring sounds of the Braveheart speech. Torrance could not contain his joy after his team fought back from being down two points at the start of day two to win the opening three matches and head to today’s (SAT) Foursomes trailing 4 ½ to 5 ½ points. The only disappointment was the thumping handed out to ...

Reigning Irish Open Paul Casey continues to stake his claims in a return to next year’s Ryder Cup after another impressive display on day two of the Seve Trophy in France. The Englishman played in three Ryder Cups from 2004 before being controversially overlooked by Colin Montgomerie as a ‘wildcard’ pick in favour of Padraig Harrington for the 2010 Celtic Manor encounter. Casey had been a star of the 2006 Ryder Cup at the K. Club when he aced the 14th and teaming with David Howell to thrash ...

Scotland’s Scott Jamieson and England’s David Lynn and Scott Jamieson teamed to produce a dramatic comeback to win their match and help Great Britain & Ireland edge to within one point on day two of the Seve Trophy at St. Nom-la-Breteche. Jamieson birdied the last two holes, both putts of five feet, to turn a match their match from being one down with two holes to play and win one up against all-Italian rivals f Francesco Molinari and Matteo Manassero. It meant Sam Torrance’s GB ...

Memphis University lifted the Graeme McDowell Shoal Creek Invitational Trophy with a six stroke success over hosts University of Alabama and McDowell’s former University. Memphis won the intercollegiate event with a 22-under par score of 842 after a combined final round of  276 on the Shoal Creek course that has played host to a number of Major Championships including the 1984 and and 1990 US PGA Championship. Individually, Mississippi University’s Blake Morris and Memphis’ Lars ...

‘Sammy’ the squirrel stole the show on the opening day of the Presidents Cup including finding a place to rest on the shoulder of 14-time Major winning Tiger Woods. Woods and Matt Kuchar easily accounted for Argentina’s Angel Cabrera and Australian Marc Leishman 5 & 4 for the USA team to lead 5 1/2 to 3 1/2 on the first day of competition at Muirfield Village. However it was a young squirrel that stole the show. Woods was introduced to ‘Sammy’ by his girlfriend, ...

GB & I captain Sam Torrance reacted to his team’s poor showing on the opening day of the Seve Trophy with just one change and that was to split the losing Scottish pair of close friends Marc Warren and Scott Jamieson. The Glaswegian duo were handed the biggest drubbing losing convincingly 5 & 3 to Belgium’s Nicolas Colsaerts and Spain’s Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano. Torrance’s team heads into today’s (FRD) Fourballs trailing 3 ½ to 1 ½ and with the team’s other all-Scotland duo ...