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Rory McIlroy is not putting well enough to win next week’s Masters. That’s the blunt observation from former Tour player and now respected TV analyst, Notah Begay. Begay, who turned 50 last September is one of a handfull of Native American golfers to have competed on the PGA Tour, and brilliantly winning four times in an 11-month spell from the last week in August 1999 to the first week of July, 2000. Though he’s more famous on the golf course for an achievement in 1998,  when ...

Dubliner David Carey has brilliantly booked himself a tee-time in this week’s Valero Texas Open starting out in the last group and finishing first in a Monday qualifier for the $US 8.9m event in San Antonio. Carey, 23, teed-off at 12.35pm local time in the closing match and grabbed eight birdies in a stunning victory round of a seven-under 65 at the Fair Oaks G&CC course at Fair Oaks Ranch, about a 30-minute drive north-east of San Antonio. Four spots were on offer into the Valero Texas Open ...

Next week’s Masters will be Sandy Lyle’s 101st Major Championship apperance and it could very well be his last. The quietly-spoken Lyle is standing down from competition after 46-years being a professional golfer, and with the Scot announcing this following the close of yesterday’s last place finish in the Champions Tour Galleri Classic at Mission Hills in California. “This is the last one”, said the now 65-year-old Scot. “I’ve been travelling for 50-odd years now ...

Scot Ewen Ferguson was pleased to secure a second top-four finish in as many weeks at the close of the co-sanctioned Jonsson Workwear Open in Joburg. Ferguson, 26, posted a final round 68 for a 19-under-par tally and just three adrift of German, and final round playing partner, Nick Bachen and with the Tour rookie signing off in style with eight birdies in a 64 to win by three strokes at 24-under par on The Club course at Stern City, and to the north of the South African capital. Bachen, who collected ...

Taichi Kho – write down his name as here could be a rising star in golf Kho, who only turned professional in January, created history by becoming the first player from Hong Kong to win an Asian Tour event in capturing the rain-shortened inaugural World City Championship presented by the Hong Kong Golf Club. There were wild scenes when the 22-year-old, who had earned his first victory on the same suburban Fanling course as a then amateuer at the 2016 Hong Kong Junior Open, closed out the event ...

A late round eagle sent Scotland’s Ewen Ferguson soaring towards a hopeful third Tour success in the Jonsson Workwear Open at Stern City to the north of Joburg in South Africa. Early morning rain delayed the start of play by three-and-a-half hours till 11am and when the co-sanctioned event got under way, Ferguson didn’t wait. The 25-year-old Scot was five-under for his round when he dropped back-to-back shots at 14 and 15, but he bounced back in brilliantly landing a second shot, 7-wood ...

Scotland’s David Drysdale was making a strong move towards the top of the tournament when heavy rain stopped play and with news of continued rain forcing World City Championship officials into reducing the Asian Tour event to three rounds in Hong Kong. Dyrsdale had grabbed a hat-trick of birdies from his seventh hole on the host Fanling course and had just pared the 14th when play was halted around 11.48am local time. Unfortunately the rain persisted and with Asian Tour officials calling a ...