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Seamus Power boosted his goal of making his Masters debut early next month after superbly fighting his way into the closing two rounds of the weather-delayed Players Championship. The current World No. 50 admitted he was ‘proud’ of his efforts in eventually posting a pair of 71s for a two-under-par day on the third day of the Tour’s flagship event at TPC Sawgrass, and with his efforts more than likely to see him move back up the World Rankings. Once again you could be mistaken it ...

… Fatiha Betscher  Spaniard Pablo Larrazabal has made it back-to-back wins in South Africa after he birdied the second extra play-off hole to win the inauguaral MyGolfLife Open on the Pecanwood course in Pretoria Larrazabal, 38, defeated England’s Jordan Smith after the duo and along with Spaniard Adri Arnuas each ended regulation play tied at 22-under-par. The trio headed back to the 18th where Larrazabl and Smith birdied the hole but with Arnaus posting a bogey ‘5’ to officially ...

... Fatiha Betscher “If you build it, he will come,” is what Kevin Costner’s character is told in the movie Field of Dreams. So Hennie du Plessis Snr. built it. He built a nine-hole golf course on his farm. And young Hennie came. He turned up and started his golf journey there. Now, this Sunday, Hennie du Plessis junior has the chance to arrive at his own dream. Du Plessis has a two-stroke lead on 19 under par going into the final round of the MyGolfLife Open hosted by Pecanwood in the co-sanctioned ...

I have never been formally introduced to Tiger Woods but in the course of reporting on his winning ways around the world, I somehow became a friend. A friend, not in the sense I had his phone number and I could ring him up and see if he wanted to go out for a game of golf and an afterward beer. No, nothing like that.  More in the sense I would be present among the media where Woods was competing, and that he would see me at tournaments, and then in the course of sticking my hand-up to ask a ...

….. Fatiha Betscher  After months of singing the praise of Collin Morikawa likely to move to World No. 1, we have the scenario at this week’s Players Championship of a further three players in with the chance of reaching the pinnacle of the World Rankings. Not only does Morikawa have yet another opportunity but the likes of Norway’s Viktor Hovland and the American pair of Patrick Cantlay and Scottie Scheffler mathematically can move past Spaniard Jon Rahm and into the No. 1 position with ...

Rory McIlroy has spoken often when he first set eyes on boyhood hero, Tiger Woods and that being in attending the 2002 WGC – American Express Championship at Mt. Juliet. McIlroy was a freckle-faced, curly-haired 13-year-old when he jumped in the family car and was driven by his father south to the outskirts of Thomastown. His fondness for wanting to see Woods compete first hand also came to the fore at the 2006 Dubai Desert Classic, and McIlroy’s fourth DP World Tour event and while still ...

… by Fatiha Betscher In his five-year reign as Commissioner, Jay Monahan has not before been put under the spotlight in a manner he faced this morning (local time) at the annual PGA Tour Commissioner’s annual conference at Ponte Vedra in Florida. It’s been just five days shy of two years when Monahan sat in front of the assembled media on Friday 13th, March 2020 to announce the suspension of the Tour due to the impending Covid-19 pandemic that would bring a halt to sport around the globe. But ...