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Padraig Harrington may not be the oldest in this week’s Honda Classic field but he is the oldest PGA Tour winner teeing-up this week at PGA National. Harrington is already a two-time Honda Classic winner will be keen to make that a triple victory treat in the now $8m event starting Thursday at Palm Beach Gardens in Florida. The 50-year-old Dubliner captured both his Honda Classic titles going extra holes, first in 2005 when he overcame 1999 winner Vijay Singh and Joe Ogilvie on the closeby Mirasol ...

The Bear Trap! To any avid golfer, those three words should immediately conjure up thoughts of three of the toughest holes on the PGA Tour – the 15th, 16th, and 17th holes at the PGA National’s Champion course in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. The course was the long-time host of the Honda Classic from 1982 to 2023 and it was last year in 2024 we savoured the first hosting of the Cognizant Championship. The Bear Trap is named after tournament host Jack ‘Golden Bear’ Nicklaus who ...

…  Fatiha Betscher Five-time Masters champion Tiger Woods will attend the 2022 Masters ‘Past Champions Dinner’ and possibly play the Par-3 Contest but has again reiterated he remains uncertain if he’ll be teeing up for the first time at Augusta National since 2020. Woods has competed just once since the events of a year ago this Wednesday and that was at December’s PNC Championship in Orlando where he rode for the two days in a motorized cart partnering with his ...

The 2022 Qatar Masters is back on the 2022 DP World Tour schedule after being dropped due to Covid-related travel issues. The Tour announced the event now will be held March 24-27, 2022 and back at the Doha Golf Club after a two-year absence at the Jose Maria Olazabal-designed course at Education City. Frenchman Antoine Rozner is the defending champion having posted a closing 67 to win at eight-under-par and hold off Italian Guido Migliozzie, South Africa’s Darren Fichardt, and Indian star ...

Russell Knox was soaring with a historic PGA Tour first of two eagles in the same round muscling way into contention at the Genesis Invitational in suburban Santa Monica. Knox, 36, eagled both the first and 11th holes in the 807th Tour stroke-play round of his PGA Tour carer in a second-day score of 67 to climb the 50 or so steps to the stunning Riviera clubhouse in the then lead at seven-under-par before ending nine shots shy of tearaway leading Joachim Niemann and posting a pair of 63s to lead ...

... Fatiha Betscher. One year ago next week, the sports world was aghast with news Tiger Woods had been seriously injured in a one-car accident in suburban Los Angeles. The world saw the totally wrecked state of the Genesis Invitational SUV Woods had been driving that clearly must have flipped over many times before coming to rest in a gully and well off the roadway. It was not till days later details emerged of the extent of Woods’ injuries and then we all began to wonder how lucky the 15-time ...

… Fatiha Betscher  Rory McIlroy has a new sponsor announcing he’s signed with Workday, the US financial management giant that featured the great TV ad where ‘Rob’ had his laptop on mute. The four-time major winning McIlroy joins fellow PGA Tour stars Phil Mickelson, Steve Stricker, Brandt Snedeker, Davis Love 111 and the LPGAs Lauren Kim as brand ambassadors. Workday, founded just over 15-years ago, also is involved with tournament sponsorship as we saw last year with their hosting ...