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Powerhouse Jon Rahm is set to become the first Spaniard in 70-years to successfully defend the Spanish Open. Rahm, 24 stormed his way to a commanding five-shot lead thanks to a sizzling third round 63 for a 17-under par total on the Club de Campo course in Madrid. The World No. 5 went out in one-under but then stormed to the front in playing holes 10 to 16 in seven-under par, and including holing his second shot at the short par-4 16th for an eagle ‘2’. Not since Marcelino Morcillo in 1948 and ...

European Ryder Cup captain Padraig Harrington has stolen a 12-month advantage over USA team rival Steve Stricker winning a Ryder Cup replica made of ‘Wisconsin Cheese’ in a bizarre ‘double or nothing’ axe throwing contest at Whistling Straits. Wisconsin-native Stricker first hosted Harrington to a 14-club challenge on the par-3 17th hole that is laid-out along the Lake Michigan shoreline. It was a final get-together for the 2020 team captains in a five-day ‘Year to Go’ celebration. The ...

Top-ranked Scot Russell Knox kick-started his new PGA Tour season with four birdies in a 68 on the opening day of the Shriners Hospital for Children Open in Las Vegas. Knox headed to a well-earned lunch trailing just three shots behind Canadian Nick Taylor who was in the clubhouse thanks to an eight-under par 63 while the American-born trio of Phil Mickelson, Brian Gay and Sam Ryder posted six-under par 65s on the TPC Summerlin course Knox produced a flawless opening 13 holes in holing a 21-footer ...

Four-time Major winning Brooks Koepka has responded to being snubbed by his fellow PGA Tour peers after rival Rory McIlroy was awarded the ‘2010 PGA Tour Player of the Year’ award. McIlroy’s choice for the award following the close of the 2018/19 PGA Tour season came as somewhat as a surprise but then the No. 1 vote for the Northern Irishman also reflected just how popular he is on the PGA Tour. This is stark contrast to the ‘stone cold’ demeanour Koepka exhibits whether ...

Top-ranked Scot Russell Knox competes this week in Las Vegas very much looking for a victory jackpot. Knox joins fellow Scot Martin Laird in the $7m Shriners Hospital for Children Open on the TPC Summerlin course just to the west of the gambling capital of the world. Knox has not pulled four winning aces or lined-up all the ‘7s’ on the PGA Tour since capturing the 2016 Travelers Championship in Connecticut. The Las Vegas event will be Knox’s first on the 2019/20 wraparound schedule ...

Australia’s Adam Scott this week makes his appearance in the Shriners Hospital for Children Open in Las Vegas, Nevade and where some 20-year years the now Masters champion was a student at the University of Las Vegas. Scott, and now aged 39, competed on the universities golf team from 1999 to 2000 before electing to turn professional late in June 2000 on the European Tour and this after having been competing early that same year on the European Tour. But then nothing quite prepared the young ...

EUROPEAN TOUR – 2019/2020 Race To Dubai Schedule November 2019 Date Tournament Venue 28 Nov – Dec 1 Hong Kong Open Hong Kong GC, Fanling, Hong Kong 28 Nov – Dec 1 Alfred Dunhill Championship Leopard Creek CC, Malelane, South Africa December 2019 Date Tournament Venue Dec 5 – 8 Afrasia Bank Mauritius Open Heritage GC, Heritage Bel Ombre, Mauritius Dec 19 – 22 Australian PGA Championship RACV Royal Pines Resort, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia January ...