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David Drysdale is both pinching himself he’s teeing-up in an Asian Tour event in St. Andrews though the proud Scot also is bitterly disappointed with the lack of response from DP World Tour event organisers. Drysdale, 48, is among eight Scots competing in the inaugural St. Andrews Bay Championship being staged at the Fairmont Resort on the outskirts of the Home of Golf. The Borders golfer is no stranger to this week’s host Torrance course having played the past two years in the DP Tour World ...

… Fairmont Resort, St. Andrews Paul Casey has won 21 times in around a dozen different countries in his professional career. Casey also enjoyed a dozen top-10s in the major while he also played in three of five victorious European Ryder Cup sides and a member of four of five of GB & I Seve Trophy teams. As well, Casey spent some 800 weeks among the world’s top-50, including a career high of No. 3 in 2009. And it really came as no surprise for a player who captured a maiden Tour among ...

.... Fairmont Resort, St. Andrews Sergio Garcia will this week strive to achieve something he’s not been able to do in his very illustrious career and that is to win a professional event on Scottish soil. Garcia announced himself to the golf world in capturing the 1998 British Amateur at Muirfield and then nine years later went do close to winning golf’s oldest major losing out in a play-off to Padraig Harrington at the 2007 Open Championship at Carnoustie. This week the now 43-year-old ...

It’s probably happened to the majority of golfers who choose to travel to golf destinations, and that is your luggage arrives but not your golf clubs. Of course, it’s a more of a concern for a professional golfer as the golf clubs at their tools of trade. Little wonder, 21-tournament winning Paul Casey pulled no punches in slamming British Airways when his golf clubs on board his flight from Arizona via London to Scotland missed the short flight from London to Edinburgh, ahead of this ...

Double major winning Jon Rahm will look to achieve a feat that no other Spanish-born golfer has managed and that is to end a PGA Tour season as the FedEx Cup champion. Rahm, 28, tees-up on the famed East Lake course having lost his long-running PGA Tour No. 1 position following an indifferent showing at last week’s BMW Championship and will tee-up as No. 4 on the standings. Rahm, along with Tony Finau and Xander Scheffler, have qualified for the Tour Championship in each of the last seven seasons, ...

PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan addressed the media ahead of this week’s season-ending Tour Championship sounding confident a working agreement with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund will be reached thanks to the “sincerity and intensity” of the negotiations. It was just a few months ago Monahan was facing calls to resign while a fortnight ago, just 25 players from the 70 teeing-up in the FedEx St. Jude Championship chose to attend a players meeting Monahan hosted in ...

The Asian Tour has defended this week’s historic hosting the St. Andrews Bay Championship at the Home of Golf in Scotland. The hosting of the $1.5m event right on the doorstep of the famed golfing city has attracted a number of LIV-based players including Masters champion Sergio Garcia and with fellow European Ryder Cup stars in Paul Casey and Bernd Weisberger. The event is also among 10 tournaments featuring in the Asian Tour’s 2023 International Series in assocation with the Saudi Arabian-back ...