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Red-hot Aussie Min Woo Lee ‘wooed’ crowds with a stunning eagle ‘3’ at the final hole to take a three-shot lead into the closing two round of the ISPS Handa Australian Open in Sydney. Lee, 23, found pine straw in trees down the left side of the 18th hole ahead of playing a 173-metre 9-iron second shot to near tap-in distance at the last, in a round of 64 to move three clear of his rivals at 12-under-par. The highest-ranked player in the co-sanctioned field at World No. 38 ...

Connor Syme is now just two rounds shy of not only a long overdue a first DP World Tour victory but joining a handful to have won both the Australian Amateur and Australian Open victory double. Syme added a second 70 to move into a share of second place at nine-under, tied with American Patrick Rodgers, and three adrift of red-hot Aussie Min Woo Lee who proudly  sits atop of the ISPS Handa board at 12-under-par. Lee, 25, captured last week’s Fortinet Australian PGA Championship and now the ...

Tiger Woods ended a near eight-month competition absence showing a few signs of brilliance but overall, and as he later mentioned, there was also plenty of rust in his game on day one of the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas. Woods walked from the host Albany course after posting three birdies, five bogeys and a 15th hole double-bogey in his round of a three-over 75 to have him lying 18th in the elite $4.5m field of 20. It left him trailing eight shots behind the leading duo of Tony Finau and ...

With just a month to a promised agreement in golf’s ‘potential alliance’ and reports grow that golf will head into the New Year with Jay Monahan standing down from his role as PGA Tour Commissioner. Monahan, 53, has been under attack from both sides in the countdown to December 31st when the golf world hopefully will learn of the nature of how the broken bridges in the men’s professional game will be mended. If that should take place, as all golf followers want to see, there’s more than ...

Golfers are being given the unique opportunity to take a step back in time to play the famous Old Course in reverse, with a new series of events introduced by St Andrews Links Trust. Old Course Reversed has been unveiled by the Trust to commemorate 50 years of the organisation being custodians of the world’s most renowned golfing landscape and is set to become an annual event to give golfers a glimpse of the Old Course’s storied past. From the 1400s the Old Course emerged and evolved from the ...

Scotland’s Connor Syme wasted little time igniting a ‘Down Under’ rare of topping his Australian Amateur win with victory in this week’s ISPS Handa Australian Open in Sydney. Syme, 28, grabbed eight birdies in a sizzling seven-under 64 in wet and overcast conditions to muscle his way to a share of third on the par-71 Lakes course, and one of two courses hosting joint men’s and women’s top Aussie titles. Sydney-sider Cameron Davis, and winner of the event in 2017 at The Australian ...

Double European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald, while saying it would be ‘great’ if Tiger Woods is appointed rival 2025 US Captain, believes the ‘culture’ created under his leadership in Rome will put his European Team in good stead heading to Bethpage Park. Donald, 45, revealed a decision to remain after leading Europe to a 16½ – 11½ victory against the United States at Marco Simone Golf and Country Club in Rome. He becomes Europe’s first repeat Captain since Bernard ...