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PGA of America CEO Seth Waugh remains in damage-contol mode as he seeks confirmation from embattled Phil Mickelson he will return to competitive golf to defend what will be his 30th PGA Championship title in Oklahoma. Mickelson, 51, has been persona non grata in golf circles since his controversial thoughts on the Saudi-backed breakaway league, comments that also saw him dropped by a number of personal sponsors. And it is understood, the green jackets at Augusta National reacted by advising Mickelson ...

Dane Thorbjorn Olesen sensationally ended a four-year victory drought, claiming a sixth Tour win, holing a curling, downhill monster 35-foot birdie putt at the last to win by a shot at 10-under. Olesen, 32, went into the last day leading by three but with three to play he was two off the lead after a round of just one birdie but also five bogeys, and then proceeded to eagle the 17th for a second day running and then birdie the last as he had also done a day earlier. Three years ago, Olesen’s ...

Rory McIlroy found calm amid chaos, wearing five items of clothing in producing the second-best round in continuing wet and miserable conditions on day three at the Wells Fargo Championship in Maryland. The defending tournament champion was two-over after two holes but then played the next seven in four-under, ahead of nine closing pars in a two-under-par 68 to jump just over 40 spots and sharing sixth place on two-under. Fellow PGA Championship winner, Keegan Bradley celebrated his 1000th PGA ...

Scotland’s Richie Ramsay remains quietly confident of ending a seven-year winless drought and, in the process, dedicating Betfred British Masters success to his six-year-old daughter, Olivia. Ramsay, 38, fought back from a mid-round double-bogey while leading, and though hitting back with a next hole birdie, his third-round level par 72 sees him tied at eight-under and four shots off the lead. Dane Thorbjorn Olesen muscled his way to a three-shot lead, finishing eagle and birdie in a three-under ...

Birthday boy Rory McIlroy may be out of his North Carolina victory comfort zone but it won’t deter him in blowing out the candles on a hopeful career first successful defence at this week’s Wells Fargo Championship in Maryland. There were the sounds of ‘Happy Birthday’ for the now 33-year-old as he teed-up in Wednesday morning’s Pro-Am ahead of this week’s event, and for a first time, in 19-year history of the Wells Fargo Championship being on the TPC Potomac course. The Euro 8.53m championship ...

A year ago, it was a river of tears flowing around the final green at The Belfry as Richard Bland ended a 478th tournament winless drought to capture the BetFred British Masters. There was an ocean of tears from those viewing coverage of one of the nicest players in golf also becoming, at age 48, the oldest first-time winner on the European Tour; only Malcolm MacKenzie, with 509, had played more tournaments before claiming his first win on the tour. Among those to greet Bland, in a Covid spectator-restricted ...

….  Bernie ‘Randolph Scott’ McGuire Mention of the Wells Fargo Championship trips a switch and has me thinking of stagecoaches being chased by a gang of masked bandits atop of their equally mean-looking horses, firing Colt-45s that never run out of bullets. It’s an image, I admit, that comes from watching far too many Randolpn Scott, John Wayne or Jimmy Stewart Western movies. Having been in the States for the 2020 Players Championship when PGA Tour Commissioner, Jay Monahan announced ...