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Double Major winning Jordan Spieth reportedly earned $1,979 for every stroke he played this past season. It contributed to the current World No. 1 born Texan earning some $US 12.03m in prizemoney during 2015 and places the very affable American eighth overall in golf histroy. During 2015 Spieth won two Majors and three other victories and played 88 rounds (6,080 strokes) in this year`s PGA Tour. Former long-time World No. 1 Tiger Woods continues to be ranked the highest single-season earner having ...

Rory McIlroy has revealed he ignored the fears post the terrible terrorist attacks in Paris to ask Erica Stroll to marry him. Last fortnight, and two weeks following the deadly attacks, McIlroy showed his romantic side for a second time in two years to get himself engaged. “I wouldn’t say it was a traditional proposal in any sense,” said the 26-year-old, speaking for the first time about the happy event. ‘We had planned the trip in May but we were unsure whether to go after ...

Four-time Major winning Rory McIlroy has won the Association of Golf Writers trophy, joining Seve Ballesteros and Lee Westwood as the only golfers in the long history of the prestigious award to win it on three separate occasions. McIlroy was a runaway winner in 2012 and last year, was a narrow victor on this occasion, just edging Britain and Ireland’s Walker Cup team, who pulled off a record 16.5-9.5 triumph over America’s leading amateurs at Royal Lytham and St Annes in September. Third place ...

Four-time Major winning Rory McIlroy again endeared himself to his fans when he hosted a live Facebook impromptu interview session high above the Dublin cityscape. McIlroy was celebrating the occasion of enjoying 1 million Facebook followers at Facebook’s European HQ in the Irish capital. And here is some of the questions put to McIlroy during the eight minute Facebook close-up with McIlroy. Qn:         When are you going to appear on the Howard Stein Show? Ans:       Whenever ...

Major champions Jordan Spieth, Darren Clarke and Y E Yang have been enticed to contest next January’s SMBC Singapore Open. Spieth will be competing the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship a week earlier and will then travel south to Singapore for the Asian and Japan Tour co-sanctioned event a week later. As well, it means the current World No. 1 will miss the Farmers Insurance Open on the PGA Tour schedule and no doubt also resulting in Spieth being afforded special release from the PGA Tour to compete ...

The Asian Tour announced a major shake-up of its board of directors yesterday, after the resignation of its chief executive officer, following deep divisions over a proposed tie-up with Europe’s golf body. Former European Tour CEO Ken Schofield was among those to lose his seat as four prominent Asian businessmen were named as non-playing directors. A statement revealed that three player members were also removed and Asian Tour chairman Kyi Hla Han was named as “interim Tour Commissioner”. No ...

Exclusive report by Kiran Kanwar. Science in Golf and the Electric Eight – The ONLY place to read about all the sciences related to golf. This will be a regular series of science in golf as seen through the Electric Eight of the PGA Tour. The Electric Eight are, in alphabetical order, Paul Casey, Rickie Fowler, Bill Haas , Billy Horschel, Zach Johnson, Patrick Reed, Justin Rose and Jordan Spieth. As the only two of my Chosen Ones (Johnson and Horschel) playing this week – Franklin Templeton ...