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Victorious European Ryder Cup hero Tommy Fleetwood was not only disappointed with his day’s play but revealed he had to retire his victoirous Rome winning driver after cracking its face during the second round of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. It was Fleetwood who holed the winning putt that sealed Europe’s eventual five-point vicvtory on the host Marco Simone course. However the proud Englishman was sounding a little disheartned following his second round one-over par 73 for ...

Padraig Harrington is on the committee to select the next European Ryder Cup captain and in singing the praise of victorious Rome captain Luke Donald he’s strongly backing Donald to stay on for 2025. Harrington was not in Rome instead, and somewhat disappointingly, Europe’s immediate past captain spent the weekend at home, glued to the couch watching TV coverage of Europe’s successful Roman conquest. “I was thrilled with the result last week .. Oh yes”, he said. “I was at home watching ...

American and LIV golfer Peter Uihlein shared the lead on day one of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship and revealing how it came about the head of the Saudi-based PIF fund Yasir Al-Rumayyan and also head of LIV Golf  is his amateur partner for the week in Scotland. Uihlein signed for a sizzling eight-under 64 in cold and sometimes rainy conditions on the famed Old Course at St. Andrews, and end the opening day sharing the lead with Swede Sebastian Soderberg, who was out earlier on the Old Course ...

It’s been just over a month since Mark Power last teed-up on the famed Old Course and that being the disppointment of losing the 2023 GB & I Walker Cup to the visiting Americans. However, it definitlely not Power’s mood with the Irishman buoyed returning to the Auld Grey Toon now as a rookie professional competing on the DP World Tour. The 23-year-old Kilenny golfer, and despite a penultimate hole bogey, had signed for a two-under-par 70 on the opening day of the $US 5m Alfred Dunhill Links ...

David Drysdale continues to ride a wave of good form birdieing three of his closing six holes in a three-under 69 after day one of the Asian Tour’s International Singapore event. The lone Scot in the $US 2m event over an early round bogey to birdie his ninth, 12th, 14th and final holes in the sauna-like conditions on the Tanah Merah host course. The Borders golfer who arrived into the island nation having secured a rookie Tour best of a T3rd last week in Taiwan while he has strong memories of ...

There’s no missing the sight of Alfred Dunhill Links Championship banners about the Old Course here in St. Andrews lowered at half-mast. It is a moving tribute to Sir Michael Bonallack, the former long-time Secretary of the R & A who passed away late last month. However, the sight of the flags fluttering at half-mast brought back immediate memories of cricketing legend Shane Warne. ‘Warnie’, as he affectionately known worldwide, passed away in March 2022 aged just 52, and it ...

David Drysdale enjoys a double delight heading into this week’s Asian Tour International Series Singapore. The $US 2m inaugural event is being played on the famed Tenah Merah course, a former Johnnie Walker Classic host venue (1996), and featuring major champions Charl Schwartzel and Graeme McDowell. Drysdale’s returned to the island nation buoyed by a rookie Asian Tour season best of T3rd in last week’s Taiwan Masters, a most timely effort that saw him take a big leap to 46th on ...