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BREAKING NEWS …. It’s not the result he sought but PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan would welcome an invitation to return to future Dunhill Links Championships. Monahan made his debut in the $US 5m event teeing-up at Carnoustie on Thursday and paired Billy Horschel however, not all went well for the all-American team with Horschel missing the third round cut by a shot at 8-under while they fell well shy of being inside the top-20 on the team standings. Monahan found his way into this ...

Despite the presence at the Home of Golf this week of the supposed two key ‘fixers’ currently in men’s golf, Rory McIlroy believes it could be at least more three years of ‘cross-overs’ before men’s professional golf is fully mended of the rift that has virtually torn the heart out of the game. McIlroy had just posted a disappointing third round two-under-par 70 but after letting slip a stunning start to his round when he raced to seven-under for his round through ...

Despite unfounded reports of widespread Hurricane destruction to the famed Augusta National course and premises the club’s Chairman Ridley believes golf’s first major of the season will go ahead as planned from 10th to 13th April 2025. It has been just over a week since the southeast of the US was hit by Hurricane Helene sadly resulting the deaths of 95 people, knocking out power to millions and trapping families in floodwaters. In hard-hit North Carolina, days of unrelenting flooding ...

It was Louis Oosthuizen who enlightened me on the speech delivered to Dunhill Links players and guests by tournament chairman Johann Rupert at last Tuesday night’s official first night dinner get-together in St. Andrews. Oosthuizen remarked Rupert’s address to guests was very much to the heart of what should be important to the world at large and that the main concern is not those involved in men’s pro golf being at loggered heads. Rupert spoke with a handful of media earlier today ...

There was plenty of spectator support, an abundance of uncharacteristic October sunshine and a golf course where he produced a second in the 2018 Open Championship but then there was little golfing fireworks from World No. 3 Rory McIlroy. McIlroy posted four birdies and also dropped a shot in the definition of a no-frills round and given the fact that so many players went low, and really low. Seventy-two players posted a score lower than McIlroy’s three-under 69 headed by South African Darren ...

…. by Bernie McGuire, Carnoustie The sounds of rifle shots sent a slight scare into the two of the more high-profile golf officials competing on day one of the 2024 Dunhill Links Championship in Carnoustie. PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan and Saudi Arabia’s Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the Governor of the Public Investment Fund that supports the PGA Tour’s rival LIV league were well into their opening round when shots could be heard from the north-end of the famed course. However, there was no ...

Rory McIlroy is no different to all real followers of men’s pro golf in expressing the wish that the presence at this week’s annual Dunhill Links Championship of the two men centrally involved in talks aimed at ending the split in men’s professional golf is a “good sign” progress is being made. This most important pro/amateur fourball since LIV Golf was founded in June 2022 will feature American Billy Horschel who will partner PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan while ...