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World No. 1 Rory McIlroy says it’s ‘unbelievable’ Byson DeChambeau’s distance off the tee. McIlroy and DeChambeau were grouped together for the final round of last week’s Charles Schwab Challenge at Ft. Worth and where the American went within a shot of forcing his way into a play-off. McIlroy struggled right from the outset when he shanked his second shot way right down the first fairway for an eventual score of 73 and a very distant share of 32nd place. He was asked ...

It was not lost that in 1891 Old Tom Morris made the same journey from the Home of Golf at his beloved St. Andrews to then-unknown reaches of South Uist in the Scottish Outer Hebrides. Eight-and-a-half years before the dawn of the 20th century it had taken Old Tom and his dear colleague, and back-to-back British Amateur champion, Horace Hutchinson, close to three days travelling by rail, by ferry and then by horse-and-cart to reach a stately-looking abode overlooking what would then be Old Tom’s ...

Former USA Ryder Cup captain and now a 2020 vice-captain, Jim Furyk has put another perspective on the on-going debate as to whether or not the 2020 Ryder Cup should go ahead later this year or whether it should be postponed 12 months. There’s the other question and that is if the Ryder Cup is given the green light should spectators be allowed to attend Whistling Straits and line the shores of the Lake Michigan course. Furyk, and whose USA Team was convincingly beaten in late 2018 at Versailles ...

Once again, we have yet another glaring example why European golfers bond so well every second year compared to their American cousins on the opposite side of ‘The Pond’. The European Tour’s latest video blockbuster is a 6 minutes and 29 seconds clip called:  “The Conference Call”. Double Major winning German, Martin Kaymer has the job of conference convenour for seven of his fellow European players plus a special guest, and with the topic of group discussion being ...

PGA Tour Commissioner, Jay Monahan admits the Tour has ‘more work to do’ health and safety-wise following a return to competition last week in Texas. The staging of the Charles Schwab Challenge ended a three-month Tour lockdown and with American Daniel Berger emerging victorious at the first extra play-off hole on the Colonial course in Ft. Worth. Berger was competing under a Tour ‘medical exemption’ following a longer lay-off due to a nagging wrist injury and with the 27-year old ending ...

Rory McIlroy was probably pleased there was no spectators present to see him produce a horror final round at the Charles Schwab Challenge in Fort Worth, Texas. McIlroy looked anything but the World No. 1 posting just three birdies but six bogeys and a double-bogey in shock round of 74 for a six-under par total and a share of 32nd in his first showing on the Colonial course. The American duo of Collin Morikawa (67) and Daniel Berger (66) ended regulation play tied at 15-under par and with the 23-year ...

Rory McIlroy finds himself three shots from the lead after a ‘Long Horn City’ stampede for the front on day three of the Charles Schwab Challenge in Fort Worth, Texas. McIlroy was just two shots off the lead at nine-under par through two days but a ‘moving day’ one-under par 69 sees the World No. 1 heading into day four just inside the top-10 at 10-under par in the first Tour event in some three months. American Xander Schauffele birdied the last in a second straight four-under ...