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Aussie golfers Wade Ormsby and Richard Green have good reason to feel right at home contesting this week’s KLM Open at Zandvoort. Ormsby added a second round two under par 68 to his opening 61 to slip back to a share of second place behind Dane Soren Kjeldsen on a day of ‘preferred lies’ on the Kennemer Golf Club course. Kjeldsen continues to display the form that earned the 40-year old success earlier this year in the Irish Open in posting a second straight score of 64 to move ...

Rccently, and in the space of 40 minutes, two previously unknown newspaper notices for Earlsferry Golf Society in 1787 and Fortrose Golf Society in 1793 were discovered. They were found in one search of the British Newspaper Archive at the National Library of Scotland in the Caledonian Mercury which published three times a week from 1720 to 1867. They bring to 18 the number of golf clubs which have a continuous or non-continuous history dating back to the 18th century. However, not only are these ...

Newly crowned US PGA champion Jason Day has asked Aussie fans to understand why he’s not returning home to contest the Australian Open. Day became just the 11th Australian male to win a major with his two-shot victory last month at Whistling Straits. And with interest in the 27-year-old Queenslander at an all-time high, he hopes Aussie golf fans will accept his decision to remain in the United States as he and wife Ellie prepare for their second child due in November. “I don’t feel as though ...

First it was Scotland’s Paul Lawrie but then Australia’s Wade Ormsby also began entertaining thoughts of becoming the first golfer to shoot a round of 59 on the European Tour. Ormsby and Lawrie went within two shots of golf’s magical number in posting similar nine under par 61s in ideal conditions on day one of the KLM Open at Zandvoort. However despite that disappointment Ormsby’s round in the lowest by an Australian competing on the European Tour. The 35-year old Ormsby, ...

More exciting news from the MENA Tour with Muscat Hills Golf & Country Club and The Els Club Dubai to make their debut on the 2015 MENA Golf Tour in October according to a revised schedule in a sign of the growing strength and popularity of the tour. The addition of two new stops has taken the tally of the tour events to a record 11, including nine on the ‘Gulf Swing’ that will see the golfing odyssey travel to Oman and Saudi Arabia in addition to the UAE. Missing out on the journey is ...

England’s affable Lee Slattery ended a four-year and 105 European Tour victory to capture the M2M Russian Open. Slattery, 37 posted rounds of 66, 67, 67 and 69 to win by two shots with a 15-under par tally. And Slattery’s second win has taken him to the top of the 2016 European Ryder Cup points table, and in the first qualifying event of the year long Hazeltine selection process. Slattery capped his round in holing a superb chip shot for birdie from rough behind the pin at the 17th before ...

Double Major winning Jordan Spieth continues to struggle in missing the cut for the second week in a row at Deutsche Bank Championship just outside of Boston. Spieth, who was replaced last week by World No. 1 Rory McIlroy, added a second round 73 to his opening 75 to crash to six over par and just a week after shooting scores of 74 and 73 at the Barclays Championship in New Jersey. The Texan had just one birdie in his round and that was at the final hole while a check of his two scorecards this week ...