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Undefeated former double event champion Jason Day was the first to book his place into the last 16 at the WGC Dell Match-Play Championship in Austin, Texas. Day, 35, sent Collin Morikawa packing with a 4 & 3 defeat and with Day never behind, winning the third and fourth holes with birdies and then moved 4up with birdies at 11 and 12 before the duo each pared the next three holes for the Aussie to be 3 and 0 in his three qualifying encounters in the $20m event being played for a last time at the ...

Scot Ewen Ferguson was singing the praise of being the company of a boyhood idol as he continues to make his presence felt heading to the weekend rounds of the Jonsson Workwear Open at Stern City near Joburg Ferguson grabbed six birdies in a three-under 69 to be sharing 13th place on nine-under, just four from the front in the co-sanctioned event. Germany’s Nick Bahem heads the field by a shot at 13-uner, with the 23-year-old Tour rookie birdieing five of his closing seven holes into six-under ...

Scot Ewen Ferguson’s push for top world-ranked Scot honours continues ​after​ taking route 66 on the opening day of the co-sanctioned Jonsson​ Workwear ​Open at Stern City to the north of Joburg. Ferguson and fellow Scott Calum Hill each grabbed seven birdies, dropping one shot apiece, to be shari​​ng ​seventh​ place and only two shots adrift of the leading ​local ​duo of Darren Fichardt and Martin Voyster with scores of ​eight-under ​64​s​. Bearsden-attached Ferguson ...

Not since Nike Golf stopped making golf clubs has so much attention been focussed on Rory McIlroy’s equipment. With the hosting of the 87th Masters just two weeks away McIlroy may have found a key, well two keys, that hopefully may lead to him unlocking the front door to the most elite club in all of golf. After the clear frustration in missing the cut in last fortnight’s Players Championship, McIlroy headed to Augusta National, playing 54-holes over the course of two days, and a golf ...

Third seed Rory McIlroy was singing the praise of two news clubs in being untroubled, breezing into the second round of today’s (THURS) of the WGC – Dell Match-Play Championship in Texas. McIlroy accounted for American Scott Stallings wrapping-up a 3 & 1 victory in holing a seven-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole in the $US 20m event on the host Austin Country Club course. McIlroy headed into the final hosting of the event having put a shorter shaft, albeit by half-an-inch, into hisTaylorMade ...

David ‘Double-D’ Drysdale has a triple goal teeing-up in this week’s World City Championship in Hong Kong. Drysdale has returned to Hong Kong and the stately Fanling Golf Club course for an eighth time in his career since making his debut since 2010. However, it was his last visit in November 2018 when the affable Scot secured his best result of fifth in the then opening event of the 2018/19 DP World schedule. Drysdale said: “We’ve always enjoyed coming here to Hong Kong. It’s a great ...

There are many golf courses around the world where you can tee-up where major champions, including 15-time winning Tiger Woods, have walked the fairways. Though there’s not too many nine-hole layouts in the golf world that can boast a golfer of Woods great stance in the history of the club-and-ball game has teed-up not just once, not twice but three times. It must say something of the JA The Resort Golf Course at Jebel Ali that Woods chose to play this magnificent nine-hole course in Dubai ...