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New Zealand’s Ben Campbell edges closer to becoming only the second repeat Link Hong Kong Open champion since the inagural event six-five years ago. Campbell added a second round 65 to his opening 63 and move one clear of the field at 12-under on the host Hong Kong GC course in suburban Fanling. The Kiwi overhauled Thailand’s Nitithorn Thippong who led on day one of the $2m event thanks to a stunning 62 and then on day two signed for  67. Three players – Korean Yongjun Bae (62), ...

Scotland’s Stephen Gallacher continues his brilliant show of over-50 form in birdieing his closing two holes and share the lead heading into the final round of a 2025 Champions Tour qualifier in California. Gallacher, who turned the big Five Zero on November 1st, and with son Jack again acting as caddy, shared the lead on day one and then led by two shots after the second day and tee-up in the fourth and final 18-holes with Gallacher tied at the top on 11-under with American amateur Jeremy ...

It has been 15 years since golf’s oldest major championship was last held at Turnberry. It has also been nine years since the staging 2015 AIG Women’s Open and a year after Donald Trump bought the now renamed Trump Turnberry. However there will be no further R & A sanctioned sanctioned tournaments returning to Turnberry until the present ‘media noise’ still surrounding the Scottish course disappears and the focus is purely on golf. And that will continue to be the scenario ...

Aussie Elvis Smiley hit all the right notes in seizing a one-shot lead in the opening round of the BMW PGA Championship in Brisbane. Smylie, 22 brilliantly birdied three of his closing four holes in a six-under 65  on the rain-softened host Royal Queensland course in the Queensland capital. Four players – Frenchman Victor Perez, Swiss Joel Girrbach, Colombian Cristobal Del Solar and Aussie Matias Sanchez – share second thanks to rounds 66. Eight others, including three-time past Australian ...

The hosting each year of the Link Hong Kong Open rekindles so many fond memoies for this golf writer. I made my debut at the Hong Kong tournament in 2003 and the then third year hosting of a joint Asian Tour and European Tour tournament that was first staged in 1959. The timing each year of the Hong Kong Open was ideal for me as it was late in the European Tour season and in those earlier career visits, it would break the long journey from my UK base and onwards to Australia to join family and friends ...

Scotland’s David Drysdale tees-up in this week’s Link Hong Kong Open clearly buoyed by his efforts in a Champions Tour qualifier last week in Florida. Drysdale and caddying wife Vicky shared seventh place in the four-rounder that finished last Friday on the Buckhorn Springs Golf & Country Club course at Valrico near Tampa. It qualifies Drysdale for next month’s final qualifying event in Phoenix, Arizona and with the leading five place-getters earning a start on next year’s ...

Jason Day has not been home to Australia in seven years but he got dietary priorities correct with one of his first stops after his plane had landed was to visit his favourite Forest Lake bakery a for a meat pie. The humble meat pie is staple food item for Australians the country over. For those not familiar it is a a hand-sized pie containing diced or minced meat and gravy, sometimes with onion, mushrooms or cheese. And it comes as no surprise Day should seek out a meat pie within a short time ...