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  Lone Scot Robert MacIntyre will be ​looking​ for ​Tartan ​compatriot company when he tees-up early in the New Year in the inaugural Hero Cup in Abu Dhabi. MacIntyre is a certainty to be picked in a Tommy Fleetwood captained GB & I team as Fleetwood’s men go head-to-head with European team captain Francesco Molinari, and the Englishman’s unbeaten ‘Moliwood’ partner from the 2018 ​victorious ​Ryder Cup in Versailles. Fleetwood and Molinari have been confirmed as playing ...

Scottie Scheffler’s odds are now even shorter in his quest to return to World No. 1 at this week’s hosting of the Cadence Bank Houston Open. The US$8.4m event is the eighth on the 2022/23 wraparound PGA Tour schedule and takes place at the Memorial Park course just to the west of the city centre in America’s fourth largest city. Rory McIlroy dethroned Scheffler as World No. 1 in successfully defending last month’s CJ Cup in South Carolina. In the absence of McIlroy last week at the World ...

​​ There is certain to be three Irish in Tommy Fleetwood’s GB & I team for next January’s inaugural Hero Cup in Abu Dhabi. Fleetwood has been named as one captain and with Francesco Molinari to captain a 10-man European Team ​and with the team event ​taking early January on the National course at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club. Of course, it was Fleetwood and Molinari who came together so sensationally​ ​forming their now famed ​unbeaten ​‘Moliwood’ partnership at the 2018 Ryder ...

  There’s no questioning Jarmo Sandelin’s determination in teeing-up later this week in the torturous six-round Q-School final​ qualifing​ in Spain. Sandelin, now aged 55, is among 156 players ​now ​confirmed to tee-up Friday on the Lakes Course at in Tarragona, Spain and then at the close of qualifying on Wednesday 16th November, the leading 25 ​will have earned full 2023 DP World Tour membership. The sometimes madcap but always very affable Swede last played a full DP ...

The golf world is naturally abuzz with confirmation 15-time major champion Tiger Woods will team early next month with Rory McIlroy to take on Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth in The Match on Saturday December 10 at the Pelican Golf Club in Florida. It’s been rightfully reported this will be Woods’ first appearance in a golf event since those highly-emotional scenes last July at the 150th Open Championship at St. Andrews. However​, there’s a golf event featuring 20 of the world’s ...

The R&A and the USGA have unveiled a regular update to the Rules of Golf as they seek to make the Rules easier to understand and apply. The new Rules will go into effect on 1 January 2023. And one of the major changes announced is that you can replace a broken club during the course of competition, but only if the club was broken in the course of playing a shot. It does not include breaking a club through anger etc. The 2023 edition continues the modernisation process, with an emphasis on both ...

​Seamus Power has bumped Rory McIlroy off his No. 1 spot on the FedEx Cup standings with another impressive showing in finishing in a five-way share of third place at the World Wide Technologies Mayakoba Championship in Mexico. Power posted a closing three-under-par 68 for an 18-under-par total at Riviera Maya on Mexico’s north-east Caribbean shoreline. American Russell Henley strolled his way seemingly at ease to his fourth PGA Tour triumph, signing for a one-under 70 to win by four shots at ...