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Crooked Stick, Carmel, IN … Rory McIlroy will return to the Crooked Stick course early Friday morning, and host venue for this week’s BMW Championship, with one thought in mind and that is to capitalise on the remaining two par fives. McIlroy had managed four birdies and dropped just one shot through the 10 holes he had completed when PGA Tour officials sounded a siren to signal a halt to play just proir to 8pm local time. The four-time Major winner was at three under par and trailing ...

Crooked Stick, Carmel, IN …. Scotland’s Russell Knox has ruled out contesting October’s Safeway Open even though he longs for the day to play alongside Tiger Woods. While Woods has announced he will hopefully return to competition at Napa in California the first event of the PGA Tour’s 2016/17 wraparound schedule is simply not on Knox’s agenda. However the current No. 7 on the FedEx Cup points list did join the chorus celebrating Tiger’s impending return. “It’s ...

Tiger Woods got top marks when the 14-time major champion made an appearance at Limestone Creek Elementary School in Jupiter, Florida, on Tuesday to join his daughter Sam for Career Day in Mrs. Todd’s third-grade class. Principal Maria Lloyd and the school’s official account tweeted out pictures of Woods speaking with the class, presumably about his illustrious golf career. And the news got better a day later for Woods announcing he was hopeful of returning to competition in October.

Rory McIlroy confessed he’s looking forward to a return of the buzz and aura Tiger Woods generates following news the 14-time Major champ is set to return to competition. Woods announced he was hopeful of teeing up on October 13th in the event at Napa, California and the opening tournament of the 2016/17 PGA Tour wraparound schedule. Woods has not competed since sharing 10th place in last year’s Wyndham Championship and in what will be an absence of 14 months. During his time on the side-line ...

Crooked Stick GC, Carmel, Indiana …. Jason Day’s picture proudly holding aloft the gleaming BMW Trophy graces the front cover of the 2016 BMW Championship commemorative program. Then in turning to page 22 there is the feature story headlined – Exceptional Day. Victory a year ago, or to be precise on September 25th, 2015, not only presented day with second straight FedEx Cup Play-Off Series title but also handed the Queenslander the World No. 1 crown. Day had virtually wrapped-up last ...

Lost among the headlines on the same day that Thomas Pieters dramatically claimed the Made in Denmark title was just as special a victory also by a talented Belgium-born player on the secondary European Challenge. G/FORE’s newest professional Thomas Detry, and a proud Callaway staff player, has revealed he is now inspired to follow in the Ryder Cup footsteps of Pieter, his close friend and countryman. The 23-year-old Detry, and a year younger than his fellow University of Illinois graduate, ...

Ultra-talented Rayhan Thomas created history, becoming the first amateur to win a MENA Golf Tour event, and on the occasion of the Tour’s 50th event, when he claimed the Dubai Creek Open in a playoff on Wednesday Starting the day tied for the lead with England’s Jake Shepherd on 10-under, Thomas closed with a 69 to reach 12-under for the tournament, forcing a playoff with England’s Luke Joy, who returned a brilliant five-under 66. Thomas bogeyed the first extra hole, the 18th, while Joy ...