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Swede Henrik Stenson has secured his best World Ranking best finish in well over two years in finishing runner-up in the Asian Tour season-ending PIF Saudi Open. Stenson posted a closing six-under 65 to finish at 15-under and two behind Thai-born champion Dewit ‘David’ Boriboonsub. The ultra-talened 19-year-old Boriboonsub signed for a closing 64 to comfortable win by three shots at 18-under on the Saudi Club course in Riyadh. The win is Boriboonsub third official Official Golf World ...

If reports are correct then Paul McGinley’s recent transAtlantic audition for the vacant NBC TV hosting role may have be to no avail. Aussie Geoff Ogilvy has seemedingly bumped the Irishman out of favouritism for the prime PGA Tour TV commentary position. That’s the view according to Sports Business Journal naming the 43-year-old and former 2006 US Open winning Ogilvy as set to replace Paul Azinger for the next month’s opening event of the 2024 PGA Tour schedule. Ogilvy’s captured a ...

Golf fans around the globe know that Ireland is famed for some of the best links courses on the planet. Courses such as Royal Portrush, Royal County Down, Castlerock, Portstewart, Rosapenna, Enniscrone, Donegal, Portsalon and Ballyliffin in the north and north-west to the likes of Waterville, Ballybunnion, Dooks and Tralee in the south-west where there right there on the virtual front doorstep of Dublin is the likes of Portmarnock, Royal Dublin, The Island and then my favourite a little to the south, ...

Scot David Drysdale maybe a tinge disappointed but he’s heading home sky high delighted to have secured his 2024 Asian Tour card. Drysdale signed for a disappointing second round, not helped by the shortest club in his bag in posting a five-over-par 76 to miss the cut by four shots in the season-ending PIF Saudi Open in Riyadh. He recorded two early round double-bogeys to make the turn in four-over before dropped shots at 12 and 14 ahead of a birdie at the par-5 15th. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED ...

Mention Mull of Kintyre and first thoughts is the ex-Beatles Paul McCartney’s hit tune of the same name. The Mull of Kintyre is located on the southern tip of Kintyre peninsula, and the most southerly point of Home of Golf nation. The word ‘Mull’ is Gaelic and means a rounded hill, a summit, and a mountain that is bare of trees. There is certainly no trees on this mostly windswept, rocky and very steep location, and certainly no sandy beach where a full Scottish pipe band could ...

Sainte-Mere-Eglise is a lovely French village located around 12 kilometres straight inland from the famed D-Day beaches at Normandy. Some 80-years ago, Sainte-Mere-Eglise and its surroundings was a strategic area along the national road connecting Cherbourg to Paris, at a key road junction between five departmental roads. Early on the morning of June 6th, 1944 Saint-Mere-Eglise would become the first town in Europe to be liberated from more than four years of German occupation. Welcome to Saint-Mere-Eglise On ...

Scot David Drysdale will look to get into top gear heading to day two of the Asian Tour season-ending PIF Saudi Open in Riyadh. Drysdale, 48, bogeyed two of his closing three holes in a one-over 72 to be just inside the top-50 but trailing eight adrift of Thailand’s Chapchai Nirat, who signed for a seven-under 64 and lead by two shots. Super Swede while Henrik Stenson got to the par-4 18th having recorded nine one putts, including one-putting both the 16th and 17th holes for bogeys before sensationally ...