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Scottish-born Aussie golfer Connor McKinney has brilliantly posted the first 59 in Australia in nearly 20 years and in the process storming his way into contention in teh second round of the Challenger Tour’s Gippsland Super 6 on the Warragul Country Club club in Victoria. McKinney, 22 teed-up on day two thinking more about making the halfway cut and in starting from the 10th, he birdied his second and third holes before unleashing the fireworks over his inward half starting with a birdie on ...

Rookie pro Gregor Graham enjoyed an adventurous affair on his DP World Tour debut at Leopard Creek in South Africa. Graham, 21 received a late invitation last Sunday into the co-sanctioned Alfred Dunhill Championship and teed-up in a first play-for-pay event and signing for a one-over 73. The young Scot was two-under after just five holes but came unstuck over the next five, posting one birdie but also two bogeys and two doubles before regrouping to birdie 12 and 13 ahead a further bogey on 14 before ...

Double Masters winning José María Olazábal and his Olazabal Design company have designed or renovated golf courses in his native Spain, Greece, Qatar, China, Austria, The Maldives Islands and now have signed a deal to design a golf course in Bahrain. Bahrain boasts just three golf courses, including the Royal Golf Club course designed by Colin Mongomerie and that played host in 2011 to the inaugural European Tour’s Volvo Champion and won by England’s Paul Casey.   The Al Areen ...

Exclusive ….. Scotland’s newest pro Gregor Graham is hoping host course knowledge will add bite to his game when he makes his DP World Tour debut at this week’s co-sanctioned Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek on the edge of the famed Kruger National Park in Malelane. Graham, 21 turned pro mid last month in a surprise move after having certainly booked himself a place in next year’s Walker Cup showdown at famed Cypress Point. However, the lure of being afforded secondary 2025 ...

Rory McIlroy has won the AGW Golf Writers Trophy for an unprecedented fifth time. Members of the Association of Golf Writers voted to reward the Holywood, County Down-born player for a year of three ‘individual’ wins and teaming with fellow Irishman Shane Lowry to capture the Zurich Classic of New Orleans that culminated in a sixth DP World Tour Race to Dubai triumph. McIlroy’s fifth victory is a record for an individual in the 74 year history of the award, breaking his tie with Lee ...

What a 2024 season it has been for Scott Alexander Scheffler or ‘Scottie’ as the golf world knows him. Nine victories, six more than his nearest rival.  A second Masters green jacket in three years. Back-to-back wins in the Arnold Palmer Invitational and the Players Championship and ending with legendary Tiger Woods donned in his traditional final round red shirt handing Scheffler an 18th career title on the 18th green in The Bahamas. In his next start after the Players,  Scheffler ...

After his best-ever season there is more celebration ahead for red hot Chilean golfer Joaquin Niemann will ‘tie the knot’ on December 21st. Nieman’s future wife is Christina Hellema Puga, a fellow Chilean who is into architecture, art, photography and traveling, and is studying architecture at the University de Desarrollo in Santiago, the capital of Chile. The couple will marry after Niemann captured a 15th pro career win and  third victory of this year at the PIF Saudi International ...