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Birthday boy Rory McIlroy may be out of his North Carolina victory comfort zone but it won’t deter him in blowing out the candles on a hopeful career first successful defence at this week’s Wells Fargo Championship in Maryland. There were the sounds of ‘Happy Birthday’ for the now 33-year-old as he teed-up in Wednesday morning’s Pro-Am ahead of this week’s event, and for a first time, in 19-year history of the Wells Fargo Championship being on the TPC Potomac course. The Euro 8.53m championship ...

A year ago, it was a river of tears flowing around the final green at The Belfry as Richard Bland ended a 478th tournament winless drought to capture the BetFred British Masters. There was an ocean of tears from those viewing coverage of one of the nicest players in golf also becoming, at age 48, the oldest first-time winner on the European Tour; only Malcolm MacKenzie, with 509, had played more tournaments before claiming his first win on the tour. Among those to greet Bland, in a Covid spectator-restricted ...

….  Bernie ‘Randolph Scott’ McGuire Mention of the Wells Fargo Championship trips a switch and has me thinking of stagecoaches being chased by a gang of masked bandits atop of their equally mean-looking horses, firing Colt-45s that never run out of bullets. It’s an image, I admit, that comes from watching far too many Randolpn Scott, John Wayne or Jimmy Stewart Western movies. Having been in the States for the 2020 Players Championship when PGA Tour Commissioner, Jay Monahan announced ...

Scottish teen sensation Connor Graham continues to be inspired by Tiger Woods after finishing runner-up in the prestigious Lytham Trophy. Graham, 15, birdied six of his closing 27 holes and dropped just two shots in the 56th hosting of the event over the famed Open Championship venue. The young Scot was in the Lytham clubhouse tied for the lead before England’s John Gough birdied the 17th to win by a shot. Graham said: “Tiger’s always been my favourite golfer because of what’s done for ...

Spaniard Jon Rahm played far below his best but still managed to come out on top in capturing the Mexico Open. Rahm struggled in posting a final round two-under-par 69, winning by a shot thanks to a 17-under-par tally. Helping Rahm was a 15th club in the bag, and that was a very supportive Mexican crowd however with the year’s second major just days away, Rahm’s efforts over the four days was not the stuff of someone really on top of his game however his name now appears as winner of the first ...

Congratulations and well done! What a great double 50th anniversary tribute at the start of today’s inaugural Catalunya Championship at the famed PGA Catalunya Resort course at Girona in Spain. This year, as we have been writing, is the 50th anniversary of the DP World Tour while this also marks half-a-century since legendary Spaniard Antonio Garrido won the 1972 Spanish Open and with the now 74-year-old hitting the ceremonial tee shot earlier today. And it was a pretty decent tee shot as those ...

Scotland’s David Drysdale drew on fond host course memories to head the Tartan charge on day one of the Catalunya Championship at the famed PGA Resort facility at Girona in Spain. Drysdale grabbed four birdies in a three-under par 69 to be trailing three shots behind the leading trio of South Africans Darren Fichardt and Oliver Bekker, along with Dane Jeff Winther in posting scores of 66. Fichardt, with six birdies from the 10th to 17th, had been leading by two but came unstuck in doubling ...