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Double Masters winning Bubba Watson birdied the second extra hole to deny England’s Paul Casey in a playoff Sunday at the Travelers Championship. The victory is the eighth of Watson’s career and second at TPC River Highlands — he won there in 2010, also in a playoff. The win also is Watson’s second this season and moves him to third in the FedExCup standings. “I proved to myself in ’10 that I could win under pressure in the playoff; I proved to myself that I could mess up ...

European Ryder Cup captain Darren Clarke will add another first to his illustrious playing career by travelling to Communist Russia later this year. Clarke indicated he is very likely to be present in Moscow to tee-up in the September 3rd starting M2M Russian Open being played on the Skolkovo course on the south-western outskirts of the Russian capital. The European Team Captain will join fellow Ulsterman, and former tournament winner, Michael Hoey in what will be the commencement in Russia of the ...

Pablo Larrazabal – With His 2015 BMW International Open Victory • His fourth European Tour International Schedule victory in his 228th European Tour event. • Moves to 576,068 points in The Race to Dubai. • Could move into the top 70 of the Official World Golf Ranking, from 118th. • His first European Tour victory since the 2014 Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship. • The first time during his European Tour career he has won in consecutive European Tour seasons. • This victory beats ...

Spain’s ‘Giant Killing’ Pablo Larrazabal has struck again in capturing a second BMW International Open in four years in Munich. Larrazabal came from an equal-record five shots back to win by a stroke with a final round 66 for a 17-under par tally and one fewer than in winning in 2014 on the same Munich Golf Course course. Sweden’s and World No. 7 Henrik Stenson came from seven shots behind to take second place with a round of 65 for a 16-under par total. Seven years ago this coming ...

No sooner had Michael Hoey signed his scorecard of a BMW International Open third round 71 when he was confronted by two young German women seeking a photograph with the five-time Tour winner. Hoey had ended the day sharing fifth place at 11-under par and just marginally behind England’s James Morrison who dropped a shot at the last in bizarre circumstances in a round of 67 to still lead by two shots at 14-under par. see:- http://www.golfbytourmiss.com/2015/06/morrison-leaves-bmw-int-open-marshall-with-bruised-arm-breast/ And ...

It was pure and quintessential Colin Montgomerie after his second straight round of 68 on day two in his defence of the U.S. Senior Open. Check out the link to a video clip that could easily go viral:- http://www.usga.org/videos/2015/06/26/colin-montgomeriefri062615fv-4324468761001.html

England’s in-form James Morrison left an elderly woman marshal nursing a bruised upper arm and breast following an errant shot down the last on day three of the BMW International Open in Munich. Morrison, who was leading by three shots and called ‘fore’ when his second shot cleared a corporate enclosure but striking the woman who was marshaling near the entrance to the scorer’s hut. The reigning Spanish Open winner’s ball cannoned off the women and landed in deep rough from where Morrison ...