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Padraig Harrington arrived back to the PGA Tour on what is the first leg of a 27,000 klm, two tournament and three continents round trip journey from the family home in Dublin. After the defence of his Honda Classic title Harrington spent last week home in Ireland. He then left Ireland headed for this week’s Valspar Championship – a journey of 6,675 klms – before heading next week to the co-sanctioned Asian and European Tour India Open in New Delhi – a trip of some 13.376 ...

Martin Laird celebrated his 200th PGA Tour event holing a snaking 60-foot birdie putt at the last on the Copperhead course on day one of the Valspar Championship Laird’s birdie from the fringe of the green, and after having to chip-out from behind a tree with his second, in a round of a one over par 72. It left the Scot trailing just five shots behind the leading clubhouse American duo of Ken Duke and Keegan Bradley, who posted four under par 67s in the bright but windy conditions on Florida’s ...

Ken Duke charmed the Copperhead course with his equal best score in 30 rounds of the Valspar Championship. Duke capped his round of a four under par 67 in the very testy and windy conditions when he chipped-in for birdie at the last. And his reaction to holing out from off the green was worth the admission price into the $US 6.1m championship at the Innisbrook Resort course. It was the 47-year old’s best score since similar 67s on day two of the 2012 event while the Palm City resident also ...

The UBS Hong Kong Open will return to the Hong Kong Golf Club [HKGC] for the territory’s longest-running professional sporting event. Tri-sanctioned by the Asian Tour, European Tour and the Hong Kong Golf Association, the event will take place from December 8-11 and will carry a prize purse of US$2 million. Won by Englishman Justin Rose last November, the event will be among the headline opening acts on the 2017 European Tour and the closing events on the 2016 Asian Tour. Since its inception in ...

Scott Jamieson returned from four weeks off to post five birdies in succession in a sizzling six-under par 66 on the opening day of the Thailand Classsic. The Scot didn’t drop a shot in the heatwave conditions to be standing tall and just two shots from the lead on the Black Mountain course. American Peter Uihein heads the co-sanctioned at eight under par by a stroke from Swede Pelle Egberg. Jamieson’s effort is his equal lowest this year in 19 rounds and in an effort that included just 25 putts. And ...

World No. 1 Jordan Spieth insisted he would resist kicking the hotel room door after his indifferent season continued with an opening round 76 at the Valspar Championship at Palm Harbor, Florida. Spieth’s round included one birdie but also six bogeys, including four in his first five holes on the Copperhead course that left him lying nine shots behind the leading clubhouse duo of Ken Duke and Keegan Bradley. “What good does kicking the hotel room door do other than possibly injuring my foot and ...

RORY MCILROY has just two events left in the next four weeks to iron out some unwanted creases if he is to be finally fitted with a Masters green jacket. McIlroy had moved into feint Augusta favouritism with an impressive third round 65 here on Saturday on day three of the WGC-Cadillac Championship, and an effort that included only 23 putts. But 24 hours later, the four-time Major winner was as far away from being any Masters threat after posting just one birdie late in his round of a 74 to share ...