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Frenchman Matthieu Pavon has created another French first to be leading the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup points race after the final round of the already weather-affected AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am was cancelled. Pavon, brilliant winner of last fortnight’s Farmers Insurance Open, was just two shots off the lead when strong winds and driving rain ruled-out any chance of play getting underway on Sunday in the $20m ‘Signature Series’ event. The Tour then issued a statement late into ...

Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth are seemingly back on the same page following the American’s pre-AT & T Pebble Beach Pro-Am comments concerning the status of the potential deal between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and also his sensitive ‘anti-McIlroy’ remarks. After more than two years of headlines for all the wrong reasons in the men’s professional game the last thing you would expect is that PGA Tour allies McIlroy and Spieth would need ...

Scott Jamieson’s quietly-confident of taming the continuing strong desert Shamal winds heading into the weekend rounds of the Bahrain Championship. The Jacksonvillle-based Scot toughed-out the winds on day two of the inaugural event posting a one-under 71 for a two-round six-under tally on the host Royal Golf course on the oil-rich Middle East island. It left Jamieson trailing just three adrift of the leading threesome of South African Dylan Frittelli (68), Switzerland’s Joel Girrbach (70) and ...

Call it the Pavon Effect with fellow Frenchman Tom Vaillant brilliantly birdieing his closing two holes to grab a one-shot lead after the opening round of the inaugural Bahrain Championship presented by Bapco Energies. Vailliant, 22, produced a superb bogey-free eight-under 64 in testing afternoon conditions to be one clear of the field and competing in only a fifth DP World Tour event heads to the second clear of the duo of Swiss golfer Joel Girrbach and South African Zander Lombard at seven under. Three ...

Scotland’s Scott Jamieson was pleased to emerge bogey-free over the Montgomerie designed host course on day one of the Bahrain Championship. Jamieson, 40, posted a five-under 67 to be just three shots adrift of 22-year-old French rookie Tom Vaillant. Vaillant, who was runner-up in last year’s Challenge Tour final, birdied his closing two holes in a score of an eight-under 64 and in only his fifth full member DP World Tour event. Jamieson finds himself in a five-way share of eighth place ...

No sooner did we learn news of the PGA Tour and the Strategic Sports Group (SSG) have reached an historic agreement that will see SSG, a consortium of investors and sports franchise owners, infusing up to $3 billion into the Tour and the m is deal is being questioned by three top DP World Tour members. The agreement will result in the launch of PGA Tour Enterprises, a commercial venture under the PGA Tour’s control. Players will have equity in the new company, a first also in the PGA Tour’s ...

Tiger Woods and his fellow PGA Tour board members have unanimously backed a massive $3 billion investmentPGA Tour Enterprise deal with Strategic Sports Group venture PGA Tour Enterprises. The consortium – led by Fenway Sports Group and also including New York Mets owner Steve Cohen’s Cohen Private Ventures, Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank, and former Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Marc Lasry – is preparing to inject the money into PGA Tour Enterprises which will increase the for-profit ...