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Special tournament report by Suzanne Kemper. The recent 2016 Rolex Trophy has again proved a stunning success in showcasing golf’s future generation of stars. This year 43 of the Challenge Tour’s best teed-up in the 37th edition of the prestigious event at the Geneva Golf Club (August 17- 20) In a unique professional golf format, the pros played opening day with top ranked Junior teams of three from the Swiss Romand offering tips, advice, coaching help to grow and develop skills. Then ...

Younes El Hassani credited his ball-striking prowess as he fired an impressive four-under 68 to finish just one shot off the pace after the opening round of the MENA Golf Tour’s Shaikh Maktoum Dubai Open at Al Badia Golf Club on Monday. The 42-year- old Moroccan rattled off five birdies and an eagle against three bogeys to join the English trio of Joshua White, Andrew Marshall and Adam Sagar in a tie for second, just behind early pacesetter Fredrik Lindblom of Sweden, who opened with a tidy ...

Russell Knox fell short of his Indy target but is thrilled to become just the second Scot to contest the PGA’s season-ending Tour Championship. Knox set himself a goal of ending 10-under par in the BMW Championship but came up two shots shy when he found water with his approach shot down the last at Crooked Stick in Indianapolis. He signed for a one under par 71 to be inside the top-20 at eight under in total and in the FedEx Cup Play-Off Series penultimate event. But in the bigger picture Knox’s ...

Olympic Games winning hero Justin Rose is reluctant to take his Rio gold medal to the Ryder Cup later this month at Hazeltine. Rose continues to win the hearts of sports fans around the world proudly showing off the spoils of his Brazil triumph. The Englishman had it with him this week in Indianapolis where the locals are more used to the sight of a chequered flag. Rose produced his gold medal at the Pro-Am dinner ahead of teeing-up in the BMW Championship at Crooked Stick on the northern outskirts ...

Crooked Stick, Carmel, IN … The Dustin Johnson victory locomotive seems virtually unstoppable heading to Atlanta and the season finale Tour Championship. Johnson was in a class all his own storming his way to a three shot victory in capturing the BMW Championship title at Crooked Stick and in the process becoming the second player this year behind World No. 1 Jason Day to win three PGA Tour titles in 2016. As well, Johnson joined Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy in capturing three FedEx Cup Play-Off ...

Rory McIlroy is confident of being fully recharged heading to both the Tour Championship and the Ryder Cup after a flagging mid-field finish in the BMW Championship in Indianapolis. McIlroy was running virtually on the smell of an oil rag and revealing after a closing day 72 for a three-under par tally just how desperate he was for the Tour’s mandatory week’s rest this week ahead of the September 22nd season-ending Tour Championship in Atlanta. His Crooked Stick showing has seen McIlroy drop ...

Crooked Stick, IN …  World No.1 and defending BMW Championship winner Jason Day has been given the all-clear to contest the season-ending Tour Championship after the scare of having to withdraw with a back injury after eight holes in the final round of the BMW Championship. Day tweaked his lower back when he bent down to put a tee in the ground on the ninth tee box and decided to pull out of the event rather than risk further damage. The concern highlighted a history of back issues for Day ...