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EXCLUSIVE …. Top-ranked Scot MacIntyre battled the hot windy conditions in a comfortable round of 67 to be assured of playing all four rounds in his maidan appearance in the Puerto Rico Open. MacIntye is the highest world-ranked in the field at World No. 68 and was five-under through 11 holes but finished a little short-changed in playing the last eight holes at just one under, with three birdies and one less bogey in his score of 67. It handed him a top-20 position as the afternoon half of ...

EXCLUSIVE .. Scot Martin Laird says he has no regrets missing out on teeing-up in this week’s whopping $20m (£stg 15.6m) Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando, Florida. Instead, Laird is contesting the PGA Tour’s $4m (£stg 3.1m) Puerto Rico Open and where he’s put himself well into contention in the hot and windy conditions on the Grand Reserve course laid-out along the Caribbean shoreline. Laird, 41, posted rounds of 67 and 68 for a nine-under tally and just three shots from the lead as ...

Champion Italian golfer Matteo Manassero brilliantly reminded the golf world of his talent posting a sensational career-low 61 on day two of the co-sanctioned Jonsson Workwear Open on the outskirts of Joburg. Manassero, 30, grabbed two eagles and seven birdies in his 11-under-par performance on the host Glendower GC. It is also among just a 10th main Tour event for the affable Italian since regaining his DPWT card late last year in Spain, and thus ending a five-year absence from the Tour. Manny, ...

Scotland’s affable Connor Syme is back banging on a hopeful first Tour victory door grabbing five birdies in a four-under 68 on the opening day of Jonsson Workwear Open at Edenvale in the north-east suburbs of Joburg. Syme, 28, birdied three of his opening six holes and then two of his closing three to be inside the top-20 and four adrift of the leading duo of Spaniard Ivan Cantero and South African Keenan Davidse. Two back of the lead is South African Robin ‘Tiger’ Williams, and named ...

The long nights of packing a pillow and blanket and then heading off in darkness looking to find a place to bed down for the night close to the opening tee of the Old Course at St. Andrews and then waking hoping to get to play the course some time the next day, will soon be a thing of the past. The Links Trust that adminster the handing out of tee-times to visitors have moved into the 21st Century by announcing a computerised tee-time draw to play the famed Old Course will be introduced from next ...

International Presidents Cup captain Mike Weir says it’s a shame in being advised by the PGA Tour that LIV Golfers will not be eligible to qualify for the event later this year at the Royal Montreal in Canada. Unlike the PGA of America that runs the US side of the Ryder Cup that last year allowed Brooks Koepka to pull on the USA team colours, the Presidents Cup held every other year is administered by the PGA Tour. However, in a surprising move that goes against continuing moves to rebuild ...

Food and drink prices, as we know, are always surprisingly cheap for patrons attending The Masters. However, there’s a new exclusive Augusta National-run hospitality venue opening right across the road from famed Georgia course set to turn that notion of it not being so expensive within the championship grounds right on its Flowering Crab Apple tail. Are you relaxing in your favourite Masters-viewing chair as it will cost you a cool $US 17,000 in receiving a full Masters week pass to the Map ...