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England’s Paul Casey produced a bright four under par 66 on the opening day of the Wyndham Championship and one stroke more than his prior best Sedgefield Country Club commencing rounds of two 65s (2011 & 2014). It put Casey in a strong position and just four shots behind the leading pair of Americans Erik Compton and William McGirt. Casey’s also in a good place FedEx Cup Play-Off series-wise arriving to Greensboro lying 22nd on the list but then also looking to qualify for the season-ending ...

Ireland’s ultra-talented Leona Maguire has won the Mark H. McCormack Medal as the leading women’s player in the 2015 World Amateur Golf Ranking. Maguire has enjoyed an outstanding season, which she came close to rounding off with a victory in a professional event on the Ladies European Tour when she finished one shot behind the winner, Beth Allen, at last month’s ISPS Handa Ladies European Masters at the Buckinghamshire Golf Club. The 20-year-old, who attends Duke University in Durham, N.C., ...

It was ‘Tigermania’ some 20 years on with Tiger Woods sending fans into a frenzy as he posted a lowest score in two years on the opening day of the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina. Woods grabbed seven birdies and dropped just one shot in a six under par 64 under a ‘preferred lie’ rule on the rain-softened par 70 Sedgefield Country Club course. He is contesting the event first time in his career and made a big impact with Woods signing for his best round since ...

Congratulations to Soren Kjeldsen in joining the ‘European Tour 500 Club’. Actually, it’s 501 events as the reigning Irish Open winner made it 500 last week at the PGA Championship but then Kjeldsen could not have expected what was in stall in returning home. Kjeldsen enjoyed his “best day” on a golf course as he registered an opening 66 at the Made in Denmark at Himmerland Golf & Spa Resort. The Danish fans made a big impression on the Race to Dubai last year at ...

Fellow Queenslander and fellow Major Champion Adam Scott has lavished praise on Jason Day after Day’s stunning PGA Championship triumph at Whistling Straits in upstate Wisconsin. Day became the fifth Australian-born winner of the year’s traditional season-ending Major and just 16 months after Scott became the first Australian in some 77 years to win the Masters. Victory along the shoreline at Lake Michigan finally erased the disappointment for golf’s ‘Nearly Man’ who ...

Tiger Woods will tee up in his first Wyndham Championship on a golf course in Greensboro that could very much be in Australia or Japan. Why? Because in the 27 holes Woods has played on the Sedgefield the 14-time Major Champion chose to use 2-iron off many of the tees. And there was one scenario at the uphill par four 17th hole where Woods pro-am partner, Chris Park and who plays in the NBL for the L.A. Clippers, was so impressed with Woods’ 2-iron  shot he used the same club and after also ...

Tiger Woods will need to make some big noise in what he describes as the ‘small town atomsphere’ ahead of making his first appearance in this week’s Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina. Scotland’s Sandy Lyle is a former two-time winner of the event yet Woods has never contested the event that has also been won in the past and eight-times by legendary Sam Snead. Woods, who has slumped to 284th on the World Rankings, is not only desperate to win for a first time in ...