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Wentworth, Surrey … Thomas Bjorn’s five Versailles vice-captains, inlcuding the Irish duo of Graeme McDowell and Padraig Harrington, have singled out the sometimes volatile Dane in glowing terms after confirmation of Bjorn’s Ryder Cup back-room team. Bjorn, who had announced Swede Robert Karlsson a year ago, has added  Harrington, McDowell along with the England and former World No. 1 duo of Lee Westwood and Luke Donal to his ‘back-room’ team he will take to France later his year. LEE ...

Wentworth, Surrey …. Versailles vice-captain Graeme McDowell is determined to present European Ryder Cup captain, Thomas Bjorn a big headache and qualify automatically for the European Team. McDowell, 38 is the youngest by two years of the four additional vice-captains named by Bjorn ahead of this week’s BMW PGA Championship. After selecting Swede Robert Karlsson near on a year ago Bjorn has added the Irish duo of Padraig Harrington and McDowell along with the England and former World No. ...

Padraig Harrington has lavished praise on Rory McIlroy with official confirmation Paul McGinley will host next year’s 2019 Dubai Duty Free Irish Open at Lahinch. Lahinch, and long-time home to South of Ireland, will become the 2oth different host venue of Ireland’s premier event that was first staged in 1927. McGinley, who captured the 1991 South of Ireland, was announced earlier this year as host of the 2019 tournament and now Lahinch has been rubber-stamped as the first course in Co. Clare ...

As widely predicted, the 2019 Dubai Duty Free Irish Open will be played at Lahinch Golf Club from July 4-7, 2019, the European Tour announced today, following consultation with next year’s tournament host Paul McGinley, tournament sponsor Dubai Duty Free, and local stakeholders. It will be a landmark moment for Ireland’s national Open when it lands on the shores of County Clare for the first time in its 91-year history, building on the vision of the European Tour and title sponsors Dubai Duty ...

Justin Rose reckons there will no need for any ‘Hail Mary’s’ when Europe goes into the Ryder Cup battle later this year in France. Rose is currently lying second overall on the European Team points table and should be a certainty to be teeing-up in a fifth Ryder Cup. While a member of the 2016 losing Hazeltine team the Olympic Gold medal Brit is clearly warming to being a member of Thomas Bjorn’s more verstaile Versailles team. And this has everything to do with the volume of experience ...

Padraig Harrington will take another step towards the 2022 Ryder Cup Team captaincy in surely being named early next week as another of Thomas Bjorn’s Versailles vice-captains. Bjorn is hosting a Ryder Cup press conference on Tuesday at Wentworth where the Dane is sure to confirm Harrington into his French back-room team and nearly a year after Bjorn announced Swede Robert Karlsson as his first vice-captain. The move will just add to Harrington’s credentials in being eventually handed the ...

Scotland’s Marc Warren still recalls vividly the time he was jokingly referred to World No. 1 ½ while sandwiched between World No. 1 Tiger Woods and then World No. 2 Vijay Singh.. It was late 2006 and Warren was making his debut in the WGC – HSBC Champions event in Shanghai and teeing-up as the then reigning Scandinavian Masters champion. The then 25-year old Warren was on the Sheshan Club practice range when triple Major winning Singh arrived beside him to begin hitting balls. The Fijian ...