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Italian golf, the European Tour and the Association of Golf Writers mourn the passing the Maria Pia Gennaro. Maria Pia was a stalwart of Italian golf working tirelessly as an editor for a number of magazines including Golf Today. She grew-up with the likes of Franceso and Edorado Molinari, Silvo Grapassoni, Alessandro Tardini, Massimo Scarpa and a younger generation of Italian players being lead by Matteo Manassero. In fact, Francesco Molinari, Grappassoni and Manassero contribute to the magazine ...

The 2014 fist official day of practice has been disrupted with Masters patrons informed to leave the golf course around 10am this morning ahead of severe weather set to hit the Augusta region. Weather forecasters have been predicting a 100% chance of rain and with the poor weather to continue for the first few days of the year’s first Major. American Gary Woodland was first out on the golf course this morning at 8am and followed by 2012 Masters Champion Bubba Watson 10 minutes behind. Then ...

Super coach Dave Stockton has welcomed Stephen Gallacher to his first Masters with the advice to treat this week as though it were a Scottish Open. Gallacher will be among some 10 players Stockton will work with ahead of the year’s first Major Championship starting Thursday at Augusta National. And it will be a European theme for the former victorious 1991 USA Ryder Cup captain who will be working not only with Gallacher but Rory McIlroy, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano, Franscesco Molinari and newest ...

Rory McIlroy’s in a best place mind, body and equipment wise heading into any Major Championship. That’s the view of his assistant coach Dave Stockton who will meet with the double Major Champion later today (MON) at Augusta National. And after being left red-faced by his crimson-coloured Nike clubs for the larger part of last season, there’s not been one question about his clubs since late last year when he came from behind to defeat Masters champion Adam Scott in the Australian Open. “Every ...

Matt Jones – 2014 Shell Houston winner  –  Fact File With his victory, he wins for the first time on the PGA TOUR in his 156th career start on TOUR. The win earns him a berth in next week’s Masters Tournament, his first start in Augusta. He earns 500 FedExCup points and is now 16th with 798 points. He also earns $1,152,000 with his victory and is now 18th on the current money list. He becomes ninth Shell Houston Open winner from Australia and joins Bruce Devlin (1972), Bruce ...

Sydneysider Matt Jones made it four wins in seven weeks on the PGA Tour for Australian-born golfers when he brilliantly holed a 46-foot birdie putt and a 42-yard chip shot on the Shell Houston Open’s final two holes to earn his first PGA Tour victory. Jones’ chip-in came on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff in against the hapless American Matt Kuchar on the Golf Club of Houston course in suburban Humble. It is also the second week in succession a ‘Down Under’ golfer ...

Double Major winning Rory McIlroy has revealed his golf bags for this week’s 2014 Masters.