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Top-ranked Scot Bob MacIntyre brilliantly bounced back from the shock of an opening hole double-bogey and upstage one of his more illustrious playing partners on day one of the WGC – HSBC Champions in China. MacIntyre, 23 and competing in the super-rich £stg 8m for a first occasion, send his opening Shanghai drive down the 10th into bushes and then on closer inspection called his ball ‘unplayable’. The Oban lefty reluctantly swallowed a one-shot penalty but then failed to find the the green ...

It’s no surprise WGC – HSBC organisers have spiced-up this week’s China event putting Bernd Wiesberger and Shane Lowry out in the same group for the opening two rounds in Shanghai. Wiesberger and Lowry are currently No. 1 and No. 3 respectively on the Race to Dubai money list and with just four events remaining to decide the 2019 European Tour No. 1. Lowry had led the Race to Dubai since capturing The Open and with his Austrian rival to the title moving clear in capturing last month’s Italian ...

Sweden’s Niclas Weiland, in his first season as a professional, made the most of his invite from the MENA Tour by Arena to win the Ras Al Khaimah Open after making an eagle on the first play-off hole against close friend and roommate Gabriel Axell on Wednesday. At Tower Links Golf Club, the 24-year-old Weiland was solid throughout the round playing in the leadergroup for a five-under par 67, which helped him match the 17-under par 199 clubhouse lead set by Axell after a storming final-round of ...

A video clip has surfaced of a conversation between Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy and the subject was not golf-related. No, it was a Japan Skins conversation between the duo on the Rugby World Cup that winds-up this weekend with England tackling South Africa. It was much like explaining to any American, the in’s and out’s of cricket but on this occasion it was Tiger asking the questions and Rory providing the answers … well trying to supply the answers as they walked the Accordia ...

Scotland’s Scott Henry is enjoying some serious family time during the Ras Al Khaimah Open by Arena and has climbed to the top of the leaderboard in the process after following his opening-round 65 with a six-under par 66 on Tuesday at Tower Links Golf Club. The 32-year-old from Clydebank has his brother-in-law Christopher Walker on his bag in the MENA Tour by Arena event and his idea of having fun was to add seven birdies and an eagle to his seven-birdie round yesterday and take a one-shot lead ...

Fellow Open Champions, Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry lead the Irish chorus singing the praise of now 82-time PGA Tour winning, Tiger Woods. Woods, 43 won by three shots in capturing the rain-affected ZoZo Championship in Japan and in the process equalled the record set back in 1965 by ‘Slamming’ Sam Snead. McIlroy bounced back again from a diappointing one-over par opening score to finish a superb third in his first event of the new PGA Tour season. And knowing Woods as well as he does, McIlroy ...

Scot Calum Hill has an extra special reason in celebrating his 25th birthday this Sunday after brilliantly wrapping-up his European Tour card for next season. The Kirkcaldy golfer superbly birdied his closing five holes to grab third place in Sunday’s concluding secondary Challenge Tour’s Fosham Open just to the north-west of Macau in China. The effort, and after two earlier victories this year, not only saw Hill jump 14 spots to 110th on the World Rankings, but he’s now top of the ...