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TPC Boston, MA … Tiger Woods will look to end his on-course putting woes packing a TaylorMade ‘Juno’ prototype putter not yet on the market into his ‘Monster Energy’ bag heading into this week’s Dell Technologies Championship near Boston. Woods is currently ranked the 26th best putter on the Tour averaging 28.52 putts for each of the 54 rounds he has contested this year. But in breaking down the stats to look at a player’s round-by-round statistics Woods ...

TPC Boston … The golf world will learn next Tuesday whether Woods will be afforded a Jim Furyk USA Team ‘captain’s’ pick and with not many better against Woods earning what would be an eighth USA team cap. Also expected to be handed a Versailles cap is 24-year old Bryson DeChambea and with Woods expressing his delight should he be drawn in the Ryder Cup with a play 18-years his junior. “Well, I don’t remember the first time I met him, but we’ve played a number of practice ...

TPC Boston, MA … Tiger Woods insists the only way he can rekindle the dominance of his 14-Majors winning career is to keep putting him ‘in the mix’. Woods arrived into Boston late Wednesday night ahead of teeing-up tomorrow (Friday) in the opening round of the $US 9m Dell Technologies Championship. It is the first time he has competed at TPC Boston, and just to the south of the city, since a bottom of the board result in 2013 and with his best finish a share of second in 2007 behind Phil ...

TPC Boston, MA …. There’s a calmness in Cameron Smith as he heads into the remaining three events of the PGA Tour’s lucrative FedEx Cup Play-Offs. This is after the quietly-spoken Australian last week made one of the biggest noises of his career in securing third place in the Northern Trust in New Jersey. It was the 25-year old’s equal-highest result in 93 PGA Tour events since making his Tour debut with a share of fifth in the 2014/15 season CIMB Classic in Malaysia. Seven months later ...

TPC Boston, MA …. When three-time Tour winner Bryson DeChambeau visits the media centre to speak to the golfing media it is never a dull conversation. Take Wednesday’s conference ahead of this week’s Dell Technologies Championship at TPC  Boston in Norton. Last week’s brilliant Northern Trust winner first revealed he attended Yankee Stadium on Monday night and was invited to throw the opening pitch in the Yankees game against the visiting White Sox. DeChambeau was aksed if ...

TPC Boston, MA … Rory McIlroy returns to competition this week buoyed by thoughts of a third Boston victory party and eager to help steer Europe to success later next month in Versailles. McIlroy emerged onto the TPC Boston practice range just after 3pm local time Tuesday in sweltering sauna-like conditions ahead of Friday’s start to the Euro 7.7m final Dell Technologies Championship just to south of Boston. McIlroy tees-up, and after skipping last week’s Northern Trust, having dropped ...

TPC Boston, MA …. Double Major winning Zach Johnson has described as a ‘coincidence’ a tweet that may suggest he will be travelling with the USA Team to next month’s Ryder Cup. Johnson, and a veteran of five Ryder Cups, tweeted a picture Tuesday of the bag handed to him as a gift by one of his sponsors. In the bag was a white 2018 USA Team Ryder Cup cap. The picture of the cap in Johnson’s bag immediately had Twitter followers, including rival European Team captain, Thomas Bjorn, ...