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While Australia’s Olympic men’s golf is reeling with withdrawals big-hitting Queenslander Scott Hend remains very hopeful Australia can win gold at Rio de Janeiro. Hend has moved into frame to now team-up with World No. 1 Jason Day in the competition commencing on 10th August. But while there is still doubt and also strong rumours Day could join Adam Scott and Marc Leishman on the Olympic sidelines, Hend could find himself marching out onto the Olympic Games arena alongside Marcus Fraser, and ...

Double winning BMW International Open winner Henrik Stenson will head to Royal Troon for two days ahead of next month’s Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open in a goal of becoming the first Swede to capture The Open. Stenson did that three years ago and when Castle Stuart last hosted the Scottish Open also spending  two days of that week familiarizing himself with Muirfield to then share third place along the Moray Firth shoreline behind Phil Mickelson. A week later, Stenson then finished runner-up ...

Paul Dunne tees-up in Tuesday’s Open Championship 36-hole ualifier at Woburn looking to make it three-from-three into golf’s oldest Major. The Greystones golfer topped the Woburn qualifiers a year ago and then went onto to come within a whisker of becoming the first amateur in 80 years to lift the Claret Jug. But if not successful, Dunne has a second bite at the Royal Troon cherry after being afforded a late invitation into this week’s 100th French Open in Versailles where some four spots ...

USA Ryder Cup vice-captain Steve Stricker has accepted an invitation to contest next fortnight’s Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open. Of course, Stricker has contested the Open Championship but his appearance at Castle Stuart will be the first time the American has played a regular European Tour event since the 2011 Qatar Masters in Doha. And there could be two more ‘overseas’ players competing at Castle Stuart given the PGA Tour’s Greenbrier Classic, and to be staged the same week as ...

The deadly West Virginia floods that have sadly claimed the lives of some 23 people and also resulted in the PGA Tour cancelling next fortnight’s Greensboro Classic has seen the R & A now offer the one spot into golf’s oldest Major to the leading non Royal Troon qualifier at this coming week’s Barracuda Championship at Montreux Golf and Country Club in Reno, Nevada. The Greenbrier Classic was scheduled to be the last stop on the PGA Tour in the Open Qualifying Series, but the ...

HENRIK STENSON – WITH HIS 2016 BMW INTERNATIONAL OPEN WIN • His tenth European Tour International Schedule victory in his 320th European Tour event. • Moves to 1,448,095 points in the Race to Dubai. • Could move to fifth in the Official World Golf Ranking from seventh. • His first European Tour victory since the 2014 DP World Tour Championship, Dubai. • Has now won a European Tour event in four of the last five European Tour seasons, dating back to the 2012 season. (Did not win in ...

Sweden’s Henrik Stenson has ended an 18-month victory drought and in the process becoming the first player to capture the prestigious BMW International Open trophy in both Munich and now Cologne. The Swede, who could move up two places to No. 5 in the world, was in a class all his own winning by three shots with a final round 71 for a 17-under par tally. And Stenson, now aged 40 has captured a 10th European Tour title to be one behind compatriot Robert Karlsson as the winningest Swede in history ...