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Past PGA Championship winner Padraig Harrington has chosen not to travel to the US for next week’s PGA Championship. Harrington had long ago entered this week’s Barracuda Championship and no doubt as a warm-up for the long overdue and also first Major of this season to be played next week at TPC Harding Park. However, when he withdraw from the Barracuda Championship it clearly meant his place in the PGA Championship was doubtful. And this has now been confirmed by the Dubliner in choosing ...

While Ireland’s top-three world-ranked stars struggled in Memphis, Seamus Power found his way without trouble to the near the  top in the Barracuda Championship. Power, and the lone Irishman in the field, scored 11 points in the modified Stableford scoring format to end his round sharing second place before eventually being officially credited TO BE UNDATED AT PLAY’S END Power is competing some 3,340 kms west of Memphis and on the Tahoe Mountain host course at Truckee in California and ...

Trío español lidera el camino ... Spanish trio lead the way! It was a very much a day for Spanish golfers with three players, including Miguel Angel Jimenez celebrating his 707th Tour event with a share of second place,leading the field on the opening day of Hero Open at the Forest of Arden course near Birmingham. Madrid-born Sebastian Garcia Rodriguez, 31 grabbed two eagles, eight birdies and also two bogeys in a sizzling 10-under par 62 in just his 18th main Tour event.  It was his lowest career ...

David Drysdale reached an historic milestone at this week’s Hero Open, the second event on the European Tour’s UK Swing, as the veteran Scot teed it up in his 500th tournament on the European Tour. The 45-year-old joins an elite club in becoming just the 43rd player in European Tour history and the seventh Scot to reach the milestone figure of 500 appearances. Drysdale, whose wife Vickie travels with him as his caddie, made his debut on the tour in 1999 at the Scottish PGA Championship, and ...

Former double European Tour winner Stephen McAllister along Scottish Ladies star Rachel McQueen plus top Scottish amateur Joy Bryce are among those early entrants teeing-up in tomorrow’s (FRD) start to ‘Get Back to Golf’. Alan Tait who is very well-known in Scottish golfing circles and is now Director of Golf Operations (UK) at GolPhin is the driving force behind this great playing opportunity for Scotland’s male and female golfers. Open to those with a four handicap or lower, and for an ...

First the PGA Championship and now the U.S. Open and with the question being asked will the 2020 Masters be next? Among those supporting news released Wednesday that September’s U.S. Open will be a ‘no spectator’ event was former U.S. Open winning Rory McIlroy. USGA CEO Mike Davis released a statement about confirming a ‘no spectator’ decision: “Following months of consultation and scenario planning with local and state health officials, we have jointly decided that hosting the U.S. ...

It has been reported but then without any concrete foundation that Sweden’s Henrik Stenson is among those linked to a proposed breakaway Premier Golf League (PGL). Stenson, 44 has been named along with the likes of Phil Mickelson, Adam Scott, Brooks Koepka, Justin Rose, Rickie Fowler and Paul Casey and at the core of joining any move to leave the PGA Tour for the enormous prize purses being mooted by the PGL. Talk of any breakaway tour had been much the story at the start of the season and ...