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History beckons on the Old Course for Jordan Spieth. Three players – Aussie Jason Day, South African Louis Oosthuizen and Irish amateur Paul Dunne – are tied for the lead, and with Spieth just one back. It’s a tightly packed leader board with 14 players are at 9 under or better and overall 25 players within five shots of the lead. “I highly doubt somebody really breaks through the pack tomorrow, given this golf course can yield a lot of birdies,” Spieth said. “It will be a pretty bunched ...

Paul Dunne shares the lead in golf’s oldest Major and here is 10 things you didn’t now about the young Irish amateur. Age: 22 Height: 5’ 8” Weight: 160lb Home: Greystone, Ireland College: University of Alabama  1. Qualified for The Open as winner of the Final Qualifying at Woburn with rounds of 70-65, ahead of the likes of Retief Goosen and Colin Montgomerie.It was the second successive year he has won the Final Qualifier at Woburn. 2.In his one previous Open at Royal Liverpool, ...

Seven years after defying a wrist injury to win the 2008 Open Championship and Padraig Harrington is remarkably just one round away from lifting a third Claret Jug. Harrington posted his lowest round in a Major, a stunning seven under par 65, to be lying just two shots behind fellow Irishman Paul Dunne and former Open Champion Louis Oosthuizen. Harrington’s previous best single-round score was back-to-back 66s on the weekend to win the 2008 US PGA, having also made that score at The Open way ...

Three-time Open champion Tiger Woods left Edinburgh Airport around 6.30am this morning (Sunday) vowing he will come back stronger after bowing out of the 144th Open by missing the cut in two major championships in a row for the first time. Woods, 39, finished the weather-delayed second round with a three-over-par 75 for a seven-over aggregate of 151 and 17 shots behind fellow American Dustin Johnson enjoyed a one shot lead at 10-under par at the halfway stage of golf’s oldest major “Next ...

Saturday is traditionally moving day in any golf tournament but the exception this week is the 144th Open Championship. There has only been 32 minutes of golf today and it’s still the second round of golf’s oldest Major. First there had been a 3 hour and 14 minute delay on Friday morning due to heavy rain and then when play restarted at 7am this morning balls began being blown off the greens so much so that 32 minutes later play was again suspended. Firstly, with no prospect of play until ...

Fellow Masters champion Adam Scott has singled out Jordan Spieth for special praise in honouring his decision to defend this year’s Australian Open in Sydney. Spieth has often this season singled out his success this season, that has included back-to-back victories at Augusta National and the U.S. Open, to his tearaway six stroke triumph last December at The Australian Club. Spieth, who finished 24 strokes ahead of World No. 1 and defending champion Rory McIlroy, then headed to Orlando where seven ...

Three years ago Adam Scott was four holes away from lifting the most famous trophy in all of golf – the gleaming Claret Jug. And like 2012 at Royal Lytham and St. Annes Scott’s birthday falls due the week of the Open Championship. In fact, Scott turned 35 today and celebrated with a first round two under par 72 on the Old Course at St. Andrews. If left the Bahamas-based Aussie trailing five shots behind big-hitting Dustin Johnson who had been out in the earlier and calmer morning conditions. Of ...