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Orlando, FL … Scotland’s Martin Laird has again ruled himself out of Ryder Cup selection in electing not to join the European Tour. Laird, and a three-time PGA Tour winner including having captured this week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational in 2011, has never pulled on the European Team colours in either the Ryder Cup, the EurAsia Cup or made himself eligible for the now defunct Seve Trophy. He did though represent Scotland in the 2011 and 2013 World Cup. In his now 14-years in the pro-ranks Laird has ...

Orlando, FL … Eight-time former Arnold Palmer Invitational champion Tiger Woods walked off with a four-under par 68 to learn he has been installed as favourite early next month to capture a fifth Masters green jacket. After a 12th hole double-bogey, Woods birdied three of his closing six holes, and including holing a monster 71-foot birdie putt at his 16th hole and muscle his way for a then clubhouse share of second place. Tiger Woods was ‘F-bombing’ after a mid-round double-bogey before ...

Orlando, FL … For a second week running Tiger Woods has put himself in frame to end a near five-year winless drought with what would be an incredible ninth Arnold Palmer Invitational success. Woods managed six birdies and a closing hole saving par in a round of a four-under par 68. His only hiccup in now 67 rounds of the Bay Hill course was a double bogey at the 12th hole where Woods ball went out-of-bounds by a mere five inches. But to pick out a highlight it would be the 71-foot putt Woods ...

Orlando, FL …. Rory McIlroy is confident history will repeat itself and he’ll come back a winner. McIlroy tees up in this week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational having missed the cut in last week’s Valspar Championship and this after also missing the cut last month in the AT & T Pebble Beach Open. The Arnold Palmer, and with McIlroy competing for a fourth straight year, is the seventh of eight events the current World No. 13 is contesting ahead of the 5th April commencing Masters. McIlroy ...

Orlando, FL …. No sooner had Tiger Woods been confirmed as the 2019 USA Presidents Cup captain and Rickie Fowler warmed to the thought of Woods, and if he should qualify for the team, becoming only the second playing captain of an American Presidents Cup side. As predicated yesterday by www.golfbytourmiss.com Woods and Ernie Els were confirmed as rival President Cup captains at a news conference held here at the Bay Hill course in Orlando. Fowler, who you would expect to qualify for the ...

Orlando, FL …. Tiger Woods, and just a fortnight after not ruling himself out of qualifying for this year’s Ryder Cup in being appointed a Versailles vice-captain, has now raised hopes of being a playing captain in next year’s Presidents Cup in Melbourne, Australia. Woods, who will be just shy of his 44th birthday ahead of a first US team captaincy role,  admitted it has come sooner than he thought but insists it was a ‘natural progression’ following confirmation in Orlando ...

Masters champion Sergio Garcia held the most unusual press conference of his career on Tuesday as his wife Angela prepared to give birth to the couple’s first child in an Austin, Texas hospital. Garcia kept a promise of hosting the conference at the beside of his wife, Angela and with the couple knowing their first child will be girl. But in speaking with Garcia at last week’s Valspar Championship he indicated their baby girl was not due to next Sunday but then new babies usually never ...