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Three-time Masters winner Phil Mickelson has downgraded his injury concern from ‘painful’ to just ‘sore’ after posting an encouraging 68 on the opening day of the Shell Houston Open. Mickelson has returned to competition after an oblique muscle injury in his back forced him out mid-way through the third round of last week’s Valero Texas Open. And Mickelson arrived in Houston after playing 27 holes Tuesday and Wednesday at Augusta. “I feel a lot better now five days later ...

Padraig Harrington boosted hopes of securing the final Masters invitation with a 69 on the opening day of the Shell Houston Open. The $US 6.2m event is a ‘Last Chance Saloon’ for Harrington and another 45 players, including the Dubliner’s playing partners Ryo Ishikawa and Ryder Cup star Nicolas Colsaerts, in the 144-player Houston field. Harrington has competed in every Masters since his debut in 2000 but has run out of exemptions while he’s tumbled to 164th on the World Rankings. However ...

Hopes of golf’s oldest Major returning to Northern Ireland in 2019 have been further boosted by the announcement the European Tour is taking the 2015 Irish Open to Royal County Down and the 2017 Irish Open to Loch Erne near Enniskillen. News the 2019 Open may be heading to Royal Portrush was reported last week by www.golfbytourmiss.com The Open has been staged just once outside of England and Scotland and that was in 1951 at Royal Portrush. However after the success of the 2012 Irish Open at Royal ...

The Irish Open is certainly taking to the road with the European Tour announcing today the 2015 event will be staged at Royal Country Down while the 2017 event will also be in Northern Ireland at the Loch Erne Resort course. The European Tour today confirmed that the Irish Open will return to Northern Ireland in 2015 and 2017, with Royal County Down Golf Club hosting next year’s event from May 28-31, 2015, followed by Lough Erne Resort in three years’ time. It will be the first time in 76 years ...

eme McDowell has proudly announced on Twitter he has taken delivery of a few new items of equipment ahead of his next event – the 2014 Masters. Of course, the former US Open champion is packing new wedges but also a ‘little 3-wood’ and as reported exclusively earlier this week by www.golfbytourmiss.com McDowell’s been working on his Augusta National game at the little known Mountain Lake course about an hour’s drive south of his Lake Nona residence. It is the second ...

On the drive east earlier this week from San Antonio  to Houston we deviated off the I-10 and onto Texas State Highway 90. The drive was very Texas passing through one town after another on the 150-mile drive to America’s fourth largest city. However what caught me eye was a handful of rusting American icon cars circa 1950s. As you can see from the photographs below there was a Chevrolet and Ford F-100 and a few other cars just lying idle but then hoping one day someone may come along and ...

The drive from San Antonio to Houston was enhanced when we decided to deviate off I-10 and take one of the ‘backroads’ to Houston and this week’s Shell Houston Open. No sooner do your leave San Antonio and your eyes are drawn to a series of billboards promoting Buc-ees. Buc-ees is a chain of facilities incorporating shops, gas station and boasting the world’s cleanest bathrooms. Among the goods you can purchase is Buc-ees golf balls and Buc-ees head cover – a must for ...