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Luke Donald’s name is strongly emerging to be confirmed next week as the replacement 2023 European Ryder Cup captain following the shock sacking of Swede Henrik Stenson. Donald’s name had been seriously in the Rome captaincy mix late last year when GolfByTourMiss was talking exclusively during the course of the Hero World Challenge with potential replacements for Irishman Padraig Harrington. The US-based Donald has the distinction of playing in four straight victorious European Teams ...

Defending Hero Open champion Grant Forrest sensationally ended his day’s work with ultra-rare back-to-back eagles on day one of the event on the Torrance course at the Fairmont Resort on the outskirts of St. Andrews. Forrest holed a 40-footer for an eagle ‘3’ at the par-5 sixth or the 15th of his round, and at the next, the short par-4 seventh the Craigielaw player buried a 21-footer for an eagle ‘2’ for a four-under 68. A RARE 🦅🦅EFFORT … As 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ...

Scot David Law grabbed an equal lowest opening score this season after his caddy took ill and the Aberdonian’s manager jumped in to carry the bag on the opening day of the Hero Open at the Fairmont Resort on the outskirts of St. Andrews. Law, 31, capped his equal lowest opening day score​ this year of a seven-under 65 in 17 events this year with five birdies in succession from his 12th hole in bright, warm and unusually calm conditions on the Torrance course. ​Joining Law on seven-under was ...

Six-year-old Olivia Ramsay is the proudest youngster in her Edinburgh school class. Sitting at home in her bedroom is the gleaming Cazoo Classic victory trophy won by her father last Sunday afternoon at Hillside. Olivia was just a twinkle in her now 49-year-old father’s eye when he last won on the DP World Tour over seven years ago in far off Morocco. Ramsay had promised her a trophy a few years back but then close earlier this year only to suffer the bitter disappointment in dunken a ball ...

Darren Clarke made it back-to-back Irish-born over-50 Major Champions in denying Padraig Harrington victory in the Senior Open Championship by Rolex at Gleneagles Clarke birdied the 72nd hole to win by a shot in a round of a one-under-par 69 for a four-round 10-under tally on the Kings Course. The win came just a month after Harrington, who brilliantly birdied six of his closing nine Gleneagles holes including the final two, captured the US Senior Open on June 26th, and while Harrington was naturally ...

Fore please! Doctor Jose Maria Olazabal now driving. This could be the introduction facing the double Augusta winner next April at the Masters. It sounds all right and proper for the winner of two Masters green jackets and that is what Augusta and European Ryder Cup captaincy hero is now to be addressed following the award of an honorary doctorate at the University of St. Andrews ahead of last week’s 150th Open. Joining Olazabal were fellow major winners in Lee Trevino, Sir Bob Charles, Sandy ...

  Dual European Ryder Cup captains Darren Clarke and Jose Maria Olazabal are united in declaring golf’s warring factions need to start talking to each other. Clarke posted a second day 67 Senior Open to move to eight-under and two shots clear of the field while Olazabal struggled in missing the cut on the Centenary Course at Gleneagles. This week’s event, like so many other tournaments in recent months, has again been dominated by the game’s best airing their views on the subject continuing ...