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For a first time in his PGA Tour career Graeme McDowell will be playing all four events on the ‘Florida Swing’. However the Northern Irishman, who resides on the Lake Nona Resort Estate two hours north in Orlando, will tee up in this week’s Honda Classic with Texas on his mind. McDowell is currently ranked 75th in the world and 11 places shy of qualifying for the March 3rd commencing WGC – Dell Match-Play Championship in the Texas capital of Austin. But then as McDowell rightly ...

Four-time Major winning Rory McIlroy insists he’s prepared to miss the cut in 10 of his 22 tournaments a season if it means winning five times a year. McIlroy heads into today’s (THUR) starting Honda Classic joint favourite with fellow ’20-something year old’ Rickie Fowler. But then in McIlroy’s added favour is a fondness for the PGA National course where he reigned supreme in 2012 and lost out in a four-man play-off two years ago. However, the current World No. 3 is coming off ...

Scotland’s Russell Knox has double cause to feel right at home teeing-up in this week’s Honda Classic at Palm Beach Gardens in Florida. Knox made a sensational debut in the $US 6.1m (£4.45m) event two years ago losing out in a four-man play-off to American Russell Henley, and with Rory McIlroy also in the play-off on the PGA National course. The Jacksonville-based Knox had posted a second round 63 and while needing a birdie to win, the Scot flew the green with his approach shot but then ...

With thanks to www.pgatour.com Ian Poulter was asked three completely different questions ahead of this week’s 2016 Honda Classic. The Englishman enjoyed a three-stroke lead going into the final round but then proceeded to lose five lost balls in a round of 74  to finish a shot out of the play-off. It has been four years since Poulter has won a title. He took a few minutes earlier this week to talk about that, the Ryder Cup and of course his beloved Ferrari collection. Two years ago you ...

A day after defending Honda Classic champion Padraig Harrington singled out Phil Mickelson as the best ‘hustler’ on Tour, Mickelson responded, and to much laughter, by remaking:  “Certainly, my pockets carry a lot of Padraig’s money”. Harrington had mentioned during his pre-tournament press conference yesterday (TUES) that the one aspect missing in golf nowadays is players being able to ‘hustle’. The three-time Major winning Irishman singled out American ...

Tiger Woods has dispelled recent Tweets he’s continuing to struggle with his fitness by releasing a video this morning (US time) swinging a club indoors. The tweet is clearly a response to a tweet put out by a fellow golf journalist earlier this week that resulted in Woods’ long-time manager, Mark Steinberg savaging the reporter concerned. In Woods tweet, the 14-time Major winner says he’s ‘progressing nicely’.   Progressing nicely. pic.twitter.com/HKnnluR1OW — ...

Potential USA President Donald Trump said it would be foolish for the Federation of Golf Tour’s, as organisers of the World Golf Championships, to drop Trump Doral from its schedule. Golf and politics, and more particularly the USA Presidential campaign, are set to clash head-on next week with the staging of the WGC – Cadillac Championship on Trump’s own Trump Doral. And with Cadillac’s sponsorship of the event to end at the end of next week’s tournament, it is timely ...