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Martin Laird reckons Bob MacIntyre’s presence full-time on the PGA Tour  is a huge lift for Scottish men’s pro golf. Laird, 41, has been used to having Scottish company competing on the Tour for well over a decade thanks to fellow countryman Russell Knox. However, the double-Tour winning Knox lost full Tour status last year and it was only last week at the Puerto Rico Open the Inverness-born played a first Tour since the end of last year. In fact, there were three Scots last week teeing-up ...

Connor Syme arrives home to his beloved Scotland for a well-earned six-week break pleased after after a third best run of results in his DP World Tour career. Syme, 28, made it four rounds in the 60s in sharing sixth place at the close of the lightning-affected Jonsson Worldwear Open at Joburg. The Scot posted six birdies in a five-under 67 for a 20-under-par and just minutes before play was halted on the Glendower host course. Syme headed straight to the airport after doing everything the past three ...

Matteo Manassero brilliantly ended a 3,942 days DP World Tour winless drought and climbing back to game’s highest level in capturing the co-sanctiond Jonsson Workwear Open in Jobugh. Manassero claimed an emotional fifth Tour victory but only after play was halted for nearly two hours due to lightning, strong winds and heavy rain and with the the Italian and six others still to complete their rounds on the host Glendower course in the north-eastern suburbs of the South African capital. The champion ...

Scot Connor Syme is looking to make it a third time lucky heading into the final round of the Jonsson Workwear Open in Joburg. Syme, 28, jumped into the overtaking on golf’s traditional ‘moving day’ posting a bogey-free six-under 66 with the effort taking him to 15-under and four shots off the lead. Former Italian teenage sensation Matteo Manassero benefitted from an hour’s lightning delay, and with just two holes to play, as he returned to birdie 17 in a score of 67 and lead by a shot at ...

Greens staff were ‘hopping’ mad after the sight of a large number of kangaroos stole the tee and run riot down the fairways at the Heritage Golf & Country Club outside Melbourne in Australia. Melbourne is well-known for its famed ‘Sandbelt’ courses and while the sight of kangaroos on ‘down under’ golf courses is not uncommon, as this Aussie-born golf journalist can testify, including the sight of two kanagoos standing toe-to-toe punching each other while ...

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 ...