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Shane Lowry admits he’s comfortable now waiting a further 12 months for his chance in capturing an Olympic Gold Medal in Japan. In the present climate of global uncertainty, the decision to postpone the hosting of the 32nd Summer Olympics to 2021 did not come as a surprise. And the reigning Open Champion is prepared also to accept the staging of the 149th Open Championship, and a week prior to the Men’s Olympic Games tournament, could also be postponed to perhaps later in the year. Though ...

Had this year been like any normal season, the cut-off date in qualifying for The Masters would be the last Monday in March. This year that date is March 30th and it should be the day Augusta National affords an invitation to the 2020 Masters for those players who, and not otherwise exempt, are inside the top-50 on the World Rankings. The cancellation and suspension of so many tournaments led to the Wentworth-based World Rankings body to suspend the Rankings on the Monday following the cancelled ...

We know the opening two of the four men’s 2020 Major Championships this year have been postponed. The staging of the US Open is seemingly somewhat in dissaray following the New York Governor’s ‘executive order’ that directly affects the construction of corporate and spectator facilities at Winged Foot and venue for the 18th to 21st June championship on New York’s Long Island. The R & A  has indicated it is ‘planning to go ahead as scheduled’ for the ...

Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell has now joined the likes of fellow European Team colleagues Paul Casey, Tommy Fleetwood and Scot Stephen Gallacher strongly suggesting it may be best to push back the hosting of the 43rd Ryder Cup a year to 2021. McDowell made his Ryder Cup debut in the 2008 haplessly led Nick Faldo side and is a veteran now of five Ryder Cup’s, and the last being in France as a vice-captain. And while striving to qualify automatically for Padraig Harrington’s team, ...

There is far too many scenarios and situations to sort out should Conoravirus fears continue into the ‘business end’ of the professional golfing season. Certainly, the various tour bodies around the globe will be facing an unprecedented rescheduling nightmare. Scotland’s Stephen Gallacher, and not unlike his fellow professionals, is trying to keep himself busy and that was no more evident in proudly posting a photograph on his Twitter page, and also  boasting to European Tour friends ...

Two decades after tragedy saw the Ryder Cup put back a year and history could be set to repeat itself with this year’s biennial showdown moved back  twelve months to 2021. This seems to be the growing call and more especially with September and October 2020 to be jam-packed with the hosting of postponed Majors. First there was Paul Casey, a five-time capped European Team member, suggesting earlier this week he would prefer the 2020 Ryder Cup being put back a year:  “I am never a fan of ...

First it was the Masters being postponed and then the PGA Champioship indicated also it would be postponed. We had the R & A indicating it would be going ‘ahead as planned’ with the hosting of golf’s oldest Open at Royal St. George’s. Now it’s the turn of the US Open and with the USGA being unable to go ahead with massive set-up arrangements at Winged Foot due to an executive order by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. The ‘order’ has resulted in the indefinite ...