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.... Fairmont Resort, St. Andrews Sergio Garcia will this week strive to achieve something he’s not been able to do in his very illustrious career and that is to win a professional event on Scottish soil. Garcia announced himself to the golf world in capturing the 1998 British Amateur at Muirfield and then nine years later went do close to winning golf’s oldest major losing out in a play-off to Padraig Harrington at the 2007 Open Championship at Carnoustie. This week the now 43-year-old ...

It’s probably happened to the majority of golfers who choose to travel to golf destinations, and that is your luggage arrives but not your golf clubs. Of course, it’s a more of a concern for a professional golfer as the golf clubs at their tools of trade. Little wonder, 21-tournament winning Paul Casey pulled no punches in slamming British Airways when his golf clubs on board his flight from Arizona via London to Scotland missed the short flight from London to Edinburgh, ahead of this ...

Double major winning Jon Rahm will look to achieve a feat that no other Spanish-born golfer has managed and that is to end a PGA Tour season as the FedEx Cup champion. Rahm, 28, tees-up on the famed East Lake course having lost his long-running PGA Tour No. 1 position following an indifferent showing at last week’s BMW Championship and will tee-up as No. 4 on the standings. Rahm, along with Tony Finau and Xander Scheffler, have qualified for the Tour Championship in each of the last seven seasons, ...

PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan addressed the media ahead of this week’s season-ending Tour Championship sounding confident a working agreement with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund will be reached thanks to the “sincerity and intensity” of the negotiations. It was just a few months ago Monahan was facing calls to resign while a fortnight ago, just 25 players from the 70 teeing-up in the FedEx St. Jude Championship chose to attend a players meeting Monahan hosted in ...

The Asian Tour has defended this week’s historic hosting the St. Andrews Bay Championship at the Home of Golf in Scotland. The hosting of the $1.5m event right on the doorstep of the famed golfing city has attracted a number of LIV-based players including Masters champion Sergio Garcia and with fellow European Ryder Cup stars in Paul Casey and Bernd Weisberger. The event is also among 10 tournaments featuring in the Asian Tour’s 2023 International Series in assocation with the Saudi Arabian-back ...

Crail Golfing Society member Connor Graham has become the youngest GB & I player to be chosen to play in the Walker Cup. Graham, who turns 17 in late October, is just one of two Scots who will tee-up on September 2nd and 3rd at the Old Course in St. Andrews for the 49th hosting of the biennial competition against the Americans. We understand his selection makes him the youngest GB & I player ever and nearly a month younger than England’s ‘Mr. 59’ Oliver Fisher who was aged ...

What a huge boost for European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald with five of his key Roman warriors inside the top-11 on the FedEx Cup standings post the BMW Championship, and now heading to this week’s PGA Tour season-decider at East Lake in Atlanta. Norwegian superstar golfer Viktor Hovland jumped five places to No.2 on the FedEx Cup points table after shooting a stunning course record 61 to capture the BMW Championship by five shots with a stunning 17-under victory tally on the Olympia Fields ...