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While expressing his personal surprise at the Brexit vote for the UK to leave the EU, Ryder Cup captain Darren Clarke says there will be no change in Europe’s quest to win a fourth straight Ryder Cup later this year. “Like everybody, I think I was surprised. I thought it would be a thinnish majority for the UK to stay in the European Union. As it transpired we all know that that didn’t happen,” he said. But with the European Tour right on top of matters in declaring also ...

After the near complete wash-out on day three of the 2016 BMW International Open we ventured afterwards down to the banks of the mighty Rhein River lying just a very short walking distance from our hotel in Dusseldorf. The air was fresh after rain for much of the day and we many, many people out just enjoying the early evening. The Rhine River itself was busy with barge traffic and also flowing very, very fast and a little swollen by the rains. But as we walked in search of a restaurant we enjoyed ...

Five of Europe’s leading players headed by Justin Rose and defending champion, Shane Lowry will forgo double European Ryder Cup points in teeing-up in this week’s non-European Tour sanctioned WGC – Bridgestone Invitational. The European Tour has stripped the $US 9.5m Firestone event of Ryder Cup ranking points in a bitter wrangle with the PGA Tour over the PGA Tour’s decision to stage the tournament in Akron, Ohio up against the 100th staging of the French Open in Versailles. It ...

Triple Ryder Cup star Henrik Stenson is prepared to take Masters champion Danny Willett under his wings in the lead-up to Hazeltine. Stenson’s currently lying fifth overall on the qualifying table and with Willett top of the team points list and guaranteed a first European Team cap. In fact, and with three months to the start of competition Willett also is among five rookies in the current leading nine qualifiers. Stenson played alongside Willett for the opening two rounds of the BMW International ...

Charlie Woods, and the son of 14-time Major winning Tiger Woods, seems on target to match the achievement of his famous father. Charlie has recorded a share of second in the Kids Golf South Florida Tour at the Mayacoo Lakes Country Club in West Palm Beach. Charlie shot a 55 for nine holes in the 7-year-old division to finish five strokes behind the winner. Charlie’s father, Tiger at age three, shot a 48 over nine holes over the Cypress Navy course, and at age five, he appeared in Golf Digent ...

The rain that has ruined play on day three of the BMW International Open will mean the leaders will have to play 36 holes on Sunday’s final day. It will be the first occasion in 11 years, and also in Germany, that two full rounds will be played on the final day following 36 holes last being played on a day in the 2005 Deutsche Bank Players Championship of Europe at Gut Kaden GC in Hamburg. Just four hours of play took place here at the Gut Larchenhof course and with only three players managing ...

Could there be better hopeful victory backdrop for Ernie Els. On the third year anniversary on his 2013 BMW International Open victory, Els has put himself in position to end a three-year winless drought in the PGA Tour’s Quicken Loans Championship and on the Congressional Club course in Maryland where he captured a U.S. Open championship. Els heads into the third round ‘moving day’ just shots behind the leading duo of Spain’s Jon Rahm and American Billy Hurley 111. The South ...