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Padraig Harrington has again chosen not to tee-up in a PGA Tour event by withdrawing from Thursday’s starting Barracuda Championship in California. The local Reno Gazette Journal ran a story on Saturday highlighting Harrington would be joining fellow PGA Championship winners Martin Kaymer and Shaun Micheel in the modified Stableford event being played this year for a first time on the Tahoe Mt. Club ‘Old Greenwood’ course at Truckee within the state of California though just 30 south-west ...

Scotland is to lose one of the biggest purse events on the European Tour with the Tour to confirm October’s hosting of the pro-amateur event will be rescheduled to 2021. Double Major winning Sandy Lyle was first to hint last month the event may not go ahead given many of the amateurs teeing-up over the three host courses travel from the U.S. The European Tour has removed the event from its 2020 Race to Dubai schedule and now Johann Rupert, Chairman of Swiss luxury goods firm Compagnie Financiere ...

Robert MacIntyre has Tiger Woods to thank for a shot at this week’s WGC – FedEx St. Jude Invitational $1.745m (£stg 1,578,160) first prize cheque in Memphis, Tennessee. MacIntyre and Irish-born caddy Greg Milne have been self-isolating in the Los Angeles region for the past fortnight ahead of this week’s first ultra-lucrative WGC event since the June 11th Stateside return to competition. Scotland’s top-ranked MacIntyre was first reserve when the elite 78-player field was announced late ...

Lee Westwood has questioned the United States overall handling of the Coronavirus in declaring he has no intention to travel Stateside for this week’s WGC – St. Jude Invitational and the following week’s PGA Championship. Westwood’s name appears on the entry list for Thursday’s starting $10.5m event on the TPC Southwind course in Memphis while the current World No. 34 has also qualified for the following week’s PGA Championship in San Francisco. Both events will also be spectator-free ...

Renato Paratore powered his way to an historic Italian Tour success with his three-shot victory in the Betfred British Masters at Close House near Newcastle –  https://closehouse.com/british-masters/ The 23-year Roman golfing gladiator was in a class all his own posting a closing two-under par 69 and win by three shots with an 18-under par tally on the hilly and demanding Close House course. Paratore’s maiden Tour victory was at the 2017 Nordea Masters and he becomes the first Italian to ...

Shane Lowry has to now make his own coffee for the next 10 weeks. Lowry, his wife Wendy and their young daughter, Iris have been apart from their families since early February when they moved into rented premises on the BallenIsles estate at Palm Beach Gardens in Florida. The Lowry’s had intended to remain Stateside for some four months but that was before the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic. The Lowry’s had the previous year rented a house at the nearby Mirasol Resort so they know the area well ...

Lee Westwood has thrown his cap into the Rome 2023 Ryder Cup captaincy ring. Westwood is a veteran of 10 Ryder Cups as a player having made his debut at Valderrama in 1997 and then competed in every Ryder Cup up to 2016 at Hazeltine. He then served as a vice-captain in 2018 under Thomas Bjorn’s victorious Versailles side and is almost certain to be named by Padraig Harrington in a similar role for the now COVID-19 rescheduled 2021 Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits. Westwood is almost certain to lead ...