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Padraig Harrington’s dream of continuing an unbroken 14-year appearance at the Masters ended the with triple Major Champion missing the halfway cut in the Shell Houston Open. Harrington ended his round just after 5.30pm local time with a last hole triple bogey in a round of 79 for a seven over par tally. And the Irishman refused to blame an injured middle finger on his left hand as the cause is being cut from the $US 6.2m event being staged on the Golf Club of Houston course. Harrington injured ...

Sergio Garcia declared he’s in the best frame of mind heading to a Major in some six years as evident in storming four shots clear of the field midway through round two of the Shell Houston Open. Garcia tamed the windy conditions not dropping a shot in a round of 67 to move to 12-under par on the Houston Golf Club course in suburban Humble. However he then had his lead cut to just one with American Matt Kuchar, who had also been in contention in last week’s Valero Texas Open, shooting a 67 ...

Our our visit from San Antonio to Houston we stopped a number of locations simply to ‘break the trip’. Another of those was the Shiner or Spoetzl Brewery in Shiner, Texas. I spent time looking at a video package of the history of the brewery along with inspecting the visitor’s center and best part of all, getting to sample a few of the various Shiner Beers including the company’s leading seller – Shiner Bock. The brewery was founded in 1909, and is the oldest independent ...

While being credited by the European Tour in the news the Irish Open will be staged in 2015 at Royal County Down and in 2017 at Loch Erne, Rory McIlroy now intends to continue to use his influence to meet with the Tour to secure a more favourable date for future Irish Open’s. The staging of the 2015 Irish Open has been set as May 28th to 31st and a month prior to the US Open. However with the location and date of next year’s Irish Open along with a date not yet set for the 2017 Loch Erne ...

The date for the 2014 Emirates Australian Open has been confirmed to be staged from 27-30 November at The Australian Golf Club in Sydney. It will the first time the Jack Nicklaus redesigned course has hosted an Australian Open since 2007 when Craig Parry lifted the Stonehaven Cup, and with the championship to be the penultimate event on the 2014 PGA Tour of Australasia schedule. A new-look Australian Golf Club was unveiled last year following Nicklaus’ extensive re-design of one Australia’s ...

Double Major winning Rory McIlroy came up short on the opening of the Shell Houston Open needing 31 putts in a round of a two under par 70. It left next week’s Masters favourite trailing five shots behind the leading American-born duo of Charlie Hoffman and Bill Haas who were also out in the afternoon half of the draw in posting seven under par 65s in overcast and sometimes drizzling rain conditions. McIlroy was returning to competition for a first occasion since finishing T25th in last month’s ...

Padraig Harrington strongly insisted he is not prepared to travel to Augusta for next Wednesday’s Par Three Contest unless he captures this week’s Shell Houston Open. Harrington kept alive hopes of extending an unbroken 14-year Masters appearance with a three under par 69 in overcast conditions on day one of the $US 6.2m event in Texas. It left the triple Major Champion trailing three strokes behind the clubhouse leading American trio of Keegan Bradley, J B Holmes and Matt Kuchar. Five-time Major ...