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Talented Matthew Fitzpatrick heads to next week’s (Starts June 16) and a maiden pro-career U.S. Open in the best form possible after his tearaway Nodea Masters success. Fitzpatrick, 21 also collected a second Tour victory in seven months winning with a final round 71 for a three shot 16-under par triumph in bright but cold conditions on the Bro Hof Slott course in Stockholm. The Sheffield golfer, and the second youngest in the Swede field and also youngest event champion, was never headed after ...

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England’s Ian Poulter is almost certainly set to head to Hazeltine later this year as a European Ryder Cup vice captain after being ruled out of golf for the next four months with a foot injury. Poulter has been dealing with an arthritic joint in his right foot for more than two years, and it has reached the point where it is painful to walk and practice. He missed the last two cuts on the PGA Tour in Texas and has fallen to No. 85 in the world, his lowest ranking since 2003. And in this report ...

Rory McIlroy’s U.S. Open plans were well on track with a rousing birdie-packed display on day two of the Memorial event in Dublin, Ohio. McIlroy went into the second round of the Jack Nicklaus hosted event birding the closing two holes in Thursday’s starting 71. And the World No. 3 came out clearly intent on building on his opening day finish with three birdies in his opening five holes on route to a six under par 66 for a share of 12th place and only five shots from the lead with 36 holes to ...

Crail, Scotland … Sheffield’s Matt Fitzpatrick made the most of a last minute decision to contest the Nordea Masters. The Sheffield golf star  fired a sizzling 65 to lead by three shots at 11-under par. Scotland’s Scott Henry, who had just 26 putts, finds himself tied second at eight under par with former Ryder Cup stars Nicolas Colsaerts (66) and Ross Fisher (68) along with recent Spanish Open winner Andrew Johnston (69) plus Sweden’s Alexander Bjork (68).   Fitzpatrick ...

World No. 1 Jason Day made a mockery of his many Memorial Tournament memories shooting a sizzling six under par 66 at the Muirfield Village course where he is a member. It left Day trailing just two strokes behind American Dustin Johnson who had moved to nine under par through 17 holes but then dropped a shot at the last, and with Johnson capping his round with a starting hat-trick of birdies and then four in succession from his 12th hole. Day has never finished better than 27th place in the event ...

Michael Hoey looks set to end a miserable run of 11 missed cuts in succession this season in posting three under par 69 on the opening day of the Nordea Masters in Stockholm. Hoey, who has earned just Euro 8,100 from his first two events to start the year, ended the day just two shots behind six players who share the lead on five under par in heatwave conditions on the Bro Hoff Slott course. Among them is Scotland’s Scott Henry who pulled off a Seve Ballesteros 1979 Open Championship ‘car park’ ...