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There is horsepower to burn both on and off the course at this week’s 25th anniversary Shell Houston Open. Not only does this year’s event feature golf’s new breed of thoroughbreds in Jordan Spieth and Rickie but again on display in the exhibition area here at the Houston Golf Club is one of the stars of NASCAR. Joey Lagano is a household name in the States.  He’s competed in 260 races in his nine years since his first NASCAR race in 2008. He captured his first victory in ...

Houston, Texas … Australian ‘Triple Crown’ winner Robert Allenby and past U.S. Open champion Geoff Ogilvy say they’re not at all surprised the Australian Masters has been axed from the 2016 Australasian Tour schedule. Event organisers IMG (International Management Group) announced earlier this week they were in the ‘process of re-imaging the Australian Masters and will unveil new plans in coming months’. Allenby captured a first Australian Masters in 2003 and two years created Australian ...

Houston, Texas … Martin Laird achieved a best lift off in an opening round at the Shell Houston Open but then said he would be doubtful if he would go to Augusta should he secure the last place into next week’s Masters. Laird grabbed five birdies and dropped just one shot in a four under par 68 to be inside the top-10 and just three shots behind big-hitting American Dustin Johnson on the opening day of the Shell Houston Open. Joining Johnson at seven under par is fellow American Roberto ...

Houston, Texas …. World No. 9 Dustin Johnson is not about to overawed by any Masters favouritism tag. Johnson ignited hopes of a first victory this season when he burst up the leader board and into a share of first place on day one of the Shell Houston Open. The big-hitting American, who started his round from the 10th, posted a 17th hole eagle where he holed a 10-footer at the Houston Golf Club’s eighth hole and also posted seven birdies and just two bogeys in his round of a seven under ...

Houston, Texas … Happy 30th Birthday to golf’s Official World Rankings. It was on this day and at the 1986 Masters, Mark McCormack’s vision has seen rankings issued over a period of 1,565 weeks, with European Tour stalwart Bernhard Langer occupying top spot on the very first of those weeks and with it becoming golf’s original World Number One. Overall, 19 players have had the privilege of being World Number One, from ten different countries. Unsurprisingly, Tiger Woods has occupied ...

Houston, Texas … Ireland’s Shane Lowry revealed his fiancée Wendy Honner will don the not-so fashionable white overalls and caddy for her future husband at next week’s Masters Par 3 Contest. “I had my dad on the bag last year and he loved it but then I’ve got Wendy to caddy for me next week,” said Lowry. “She’s really looking forward to it so it will be a fun way to end all the practice and preparations.” It will be Lowry’s second straight Masters but unlike a year ...

Houston, Texas … Shane Lowry reckons with just a week to the Masters he’s in a far better place heading to Augusta National than the ‘kid in a candy shop’ awe of a year ago. Lowry tees up in this week’s Shell Houston Open finding himself being promoted, along with the likes of Jordan Spieth, Rickie Fowler, Patrick Reed and Swede Henrik Stenson, as one of the stars competing in suburb Humble. And Lowry could not be in a better place either mentally and also in terms of his maturity ...