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In the words of song writer Marc Cohn Graeme McDowell tees-up in this week’s FedEx St. Jude Classic looking to walk tall in the ‘Land of the Delta Blues’. McDowell was seemingly intent on taking a fortnight’s break from competition following his top-30 finish at the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. That would have meant spending a fortnight on the range at Lake Nona but instead McDowell has elected to return to the sauna-like conditions set to greet competitors teeing-up on ...

Scotland’s top world ranked Russell Knox intends drawing on golf’s 15th club when it comes to teeing-up in next month’s Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open at Castle Stuart. Last month, Knox went within a whisker of denying Rory McIlroy the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open trophy. Indeed, McIlroy drew on the overwhelming home crowd support he enjoyed over the four rounds to pull off two of the greatest shots in his career and deny Knox the gleaming Irish Open trophy, Now Knox will ...

Rising English star Haydn McCullen and South Africa’s Bryandrew Roelofsz shot matching six-under 65s to share the lead heading into the second round of the South to East Challenge at Zwartkop Golf Club in Centurion, Pretoria, on Tuesday. McCullen, who won the prestigious McEvoy Trophy in 2014 before turning pro last year, and Roelofsz both reeled off seven birdies against a lone bogey to surge one clear of South Africa’s Siphiwe Siphayi in this MENA Golf Tour event, which is co-sanctioned by ...

Rory McIlroy and future wife Erica Stoll are set to tie the knot at the stunning Ashford Castle in Northern Ireland. McIlroy and Stoll have stayed at the five-star Castle on a number of occasions before, and have spent New Year’s Eve there for the past two years. As one of Ireland’s most exclusive wedding venues, the castle – which describes itself as Europe’s most romantic hotel – is often seen in the pages of Vogue and Hello. Other celebrities who celebrated their ...

As predicted on this website last week, Ian Poulter has been named a fourth 2016 European Team Ryder Cup Vice-Captain. The 40 year old Englishman will bring not only a wealth of experience to Darren Clarke’s back-room team, having played five times for Europe in the biennial contest, he will also bring the famous passion and commitment that has made him one of the most fearsome competitors in the tournament’s 89 year history. In his five outings – 2004 at Oakland Hills, 2008 at Valhalla, 2010 ...

Ireland’s Conor O’Rourke became only the second Irishman winner in capturing the prestigious St. Andrews Links Trophy at the Home of Golf. A par at the infamous 17th Road Hole, where O’Rourke’s second shot came to rest just inches from the bitumen pathway at the back of the hole, was good enough to win the trophy by a shot with a final round victory for a one shot success at 12-under par. O’Rourke, 24 hails from Naas near Dublin and now joins Rathmore’s Alan ...

Rory McIlroy celebrated yet another top-10 PGA Tour finish this season with a milkshake after a closing 68 at the Memorial in Dublin, Ohio. McIlroy birdied three holes in succession from the 15th in a closing Muirfield Village last day for a 13-under par tally. The effort was the reigning Dubai Duty Free Irish Open winner’s fifth top-10 finish in 10 PGA Tour FedEx Cup counting events this year. But yet again Stateside this season it was a frustrating week for the current World No. 3 despite recording ...