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Open champion Collin Morikawa fended off a late Robert MacIntyre challenge to win 2 & 1 over Scotland’s top-ranked on day one of the WGC- Dell Technologies Match-Play in Austin, Texas. The World No. 2 ranked Morikawa was never headed in his match against the now No. 70 ranked MacIntyre, sealing the win with a par at the par-3 17th in windy conditions on the Austin Country Club course. The 25-year-old Morikawa, and just six months older than his Oban rival, won the first with a 15-foot birdie, ...

Like most things in Texas, the Austin Country Club is a big golf course. The course that again plays host, somewhat we understand controversially, to this week’s final hosting of the WGC – Dell Technologies Match-Play championship measures 7,062-yards, was carved out of hillsides, with many holes over-looking steep gorges, and also with a handful of holes running along the floodplain of the Colorado River in the north-western outskirts of the Texas capital. The Austin Country Club was ...

Robert MacIntyre has jetted into Texas for back-to-back tournaments ready to ‘release the hounds’ and a much-needed boost in form ahead of next month’s Masters. MacIntyre has qualified for Wednesday’s starting WGC – Dell Technologies Match-Play Championship in the Texas capital of Austin while he’s also been afforded an invitation to tee-up in the following week’s Valero Texas Open in San Antonio. The world’s leading 64 on the World Rankings qualify for a place into this ...

A frustrated Shane Lowry was hoping the wind blew over the closing stages of the second round to dry out the Copperhead Course heading to the weekend rounds of the Valspar Championship near Tampa in Florida. Lowry grabbed three birdies in a round of 68 and headed to lunch at five-under-par and just outside the then leading 20 in the $7.8m event. It left him trailing seven shots adrift of Canadian Adam Hadley and with the 2017 Valspar winner adding a 66 to his opening 64, and move to 12-under ...

.. Fatiha Betscher Henrik Stenson’s selection as 2023 European Ryder Cup captain clearly will not make it any easier if Graeme McDowell is to captain Europe in 2027 at Adare Manor. It was mid-2019 when Adare Manor was awarded the 2026 Ryder Cup and McDowell was immediately touted as the possible European Team captain on Irish home soil. That view did not change when the worldwide pandemic saw the 2020 Ryder Cup pushed back to 2021, resulting in all future Ryder Cup’s returning to an odd-numbered ...

Shane Lowry was not only full of praise for new European Ryder Cup captain Henrik Stenson but also declaring his determination to qualify automatically next year for the Swede’s team heading to Rome. Lowry and fellow Irishman Graeme McDowell found themselves grouped with Stenson for the opening two rounds of this week’s Valspar Championship near Naples in Florida. And as hinted ahead of tee-off, it came as no surprise what the topic of conversation was among the trio of Major Champions as they headed ...

Ex-winning Ryder Cupper Stephen Gallacher delivered new European Team captain Henrik Stenson a ringing endorsement declaring: “Henrik is the best man for the job’ heading into next year’s Rome showdown. After months of negative headlines and selection uncertanity Stenson was handed the Rome reins and, in the process, becoming the first Swede to captain a European Team Gallacher, and a member of Paul McGinley’s winning 2014 team at Gleneagles, was asked what he thought of Stenson’s ...