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Scotland boasts a remarkable seven players contesting this week’s PGA Championship including Texas-based ot Steven Young. Young was born at Inverallochy near Fraserburgh and played in the same 1997 Walker Cup team as Justin Rose, and was the only played to win a Singles match the last day, and on a 6 to 18 point defeat. He also contested the 1997 Open Championship, and in the year he turned pro, along with the 1998 Open but missed the cut at Royal Troon with scores of 79 and 80 and then a ...

Shane Lowry’s joy in capturing the Bridgestone Invitational has been somewhat short-lived by the European Tour’s decision not to co-sanction or afford Ryder Cup counting points to next year’s event. The return of golf to the 2016 Olympics has meant for a completely revamped schedule on both the European and PGA Tour’s next year. One big change is the WGC – Bridgestone Invitational will move from its traditional August date to June and two weeks following the U.S. Open and three weeks prior ...

Anirban Lahiri has won the PGA Championship ‘Longest Drive Contest’ for the second time in three years. India’s top-ranked player bombed a drive of 327 yards on the 593-yard, par-5 second hole at the Straits. Lahiri, 28, of Bangalore, India, edged reigning PGA Professional National Champion Matt Dobyns of Glen Head, New York, who was four yards shorter at 323, while J.B. Holmes of Bradenton, Florida, was third at 315 in the competition on a hole dubbed “Big Country.” The PGA ...

Padraig Harrington is warming at the thought of Shane Lowry next year joining the PGA Tour full-time only if for an added traveling and dinner companion. Lowry indicated he will adopt the ‘Harrington model’ in tackling the PGA Tour and that will be not to base himself in the States but rather play a few events at a time and fly back-and-forward from Dublin. “I’m not going to base myself over here as I like being at home in Ireland too much, so I will be staying local to Europe in that sense,” ...

Four-time former PGA Championship winner Tiger Woods is not only fighting gremlins in his game but biting mosquitos all about this week’s Whistling Straits host venue. Woods was sporting a few ‘mossie’ bites on his arms following an early Tuesday morning practice and showing he’d lost none of his human appeal with a ‘plague’ of few hundred of fans up early to walk the Lake Michigan shoreline with the former long-time World No. 1. “I’ve never seen mosquitos like these up ...

While 156 of the world’s best golfers have made their way to Whistling Straits in Wisconsin for this week’s PGA Championship, Bernie has beaten them to the prize. On show in the locker-room of the Whistling Straits clubhouse is the item they each will be seeking this week – the gleaming Rodman Wanamaker Trophy. But then while Bernie was in the clubhouse congratulating Ireland’s Shane Lowry he managed to get a snap beside the largest trophy in Majors competition.

World No. 1 Rory McIlroy was first singing the praise of Shane Lowry but then revealed how his trainer stopped him from defending last week’s WGC – Bridgestone Invitational and won by Lowry. McIlroy managed to squeeze in a third straight practice round before the first of two electrical storms deluged the region located about an hour’s drive north of Milwaukee. “After playing 18 holes yesterday I got back to the house we’re renting this week and managed to watch much of Shane’s ...