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Frenchman Lionel Weber climbed closer to a maiden MENA Tour victory in moving four shots clear of the field heading to the final roudn of the Mountain Creek Open by Golf Citizen in Thailand. Weber carded a sparkling second round 67  that included seven birdies and with just two bogeys for an 11-under tally on the Seve Ballesteros-designed course on Tuesday. England’s Luke Joy carded a bogey-free 68 to be in second place on seven under while Switzerland’s Dubai-based amateur Michael Harradine ...

For a second week running Frenchman Lionel Weber is atop of the board on day one after firing a sizzling six-under 66 to set the early pace in the weather-hit Mountain Creek Open by Golf Citizen on Monday. The Callaway golfer, who is also a brand ambassador of Thailand’s Banyan Golf Club, rattled up seven birdies against a lone bogey on the par-5, 13 th , to move two clear of Switzerland’s Dubai-based amateur Michael Harradine, South Africa’s Tyler Hogarty and England’s Jamie Elson. England’s ...

Ponte Vedre, FL …. A day after “kicking his backside” in a chipping contest and Jason Day believes Cameron Smith has the mettle to win at the game’s highest level. Both Day and Smith are returning to competition at this week’s Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass at Ponte Vedre in Florida. It is a unique week for the Queensland duo and with Day being the defending champion while the baby-faced 23-year old Smith is teeing-up for a first occasion since he and Swede Jonas Blixt teamed ...

Ponte Vedre, FL … Sergio Garcia has returned to competition for this week’s Players Championship but without his Masters winning caddy. The wife of Garcia’s long-time South African-born caddy, Glen Murray has just given birth to the couple’s second child and with Garcia arranging for former Spanish European Tour colleague, Jose Manual Lara to carry his Augusta National winning clubs. Lara, 39 won twice on the European Tour with victory in the 2oo6 Honk Kong Open and the 2o1o Austrian Open. No ...

Double Major winning John Daly ended a 13-year winless drought to capture a maiden Champions Tour title with victory in the Insperity Invitational in Houston, Texas. Daly, 51 has won some smaller events in the intervening period including the 2014 Open in Turkey, but this victory in the northern suburbs of America’s fourth largest city is the first of note since winning the PGA Tour’s 2004 Buick Invitational. Finally he had ended that long drought with victory on The Woodlands where ...

The Aussie team duo of Scott Hend and Sam Brazel could feel proud having finished runner-up in the inaugural European Tour Golf Sixes at the St. Albion club in England. Hend and Brazel were beaten 3 & 1 over the six-hole final by the Danish duo of Thornbjorn Olesen and his teammate Lucas Bjerregaard and after the Aussie duo conceded the closing hole when Brazel, and winner of the UBS Hong Kong Open, missed a putt that may have sent the match into an extra hole. It was the second taste of team ...

Buoyed by their incredible run of success at last week’s MahaSumutre Masters, a strong Thai contingent will be hoping to scale another summit when they tee it up at the MENA Tour’s Mountain Creek Open by Golf Citizen on Monday. Spearheaded by winner Jazz Janewattananond, the home players made a strong statement about the rising standard of the game in the kingdom at Banyan Golf Club, racking up four top-10 finishes in addition to a first in the amateur division, and they will look to keep ...