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It’s not final till the 31st December but Ireland will now have three players teeing-up in next year’s Masters The Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR) has released a ‘projected’ end of 2022 ranking of all players and with Rory McIlroy assured in being World No. 1. Shane Lowry is projected to end the year at a career best of World No. 20 and Seamus Power also a career high as World No. 29. For the top-ranked McIlroy the 2023 Masters will be a 15th appearance at Augusta National since a ...

​​Young Tom McKibbin’s rookie season continues to shine brightly ​in the Rainbow Nation w​ith the soon-to-be 20-year old grabbing a third top-20 in as many events at the Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek. McKibbin, ​who ends his teenage years on December 19th, ​ saved the best for last grabbing an eagle ‘2’ and six birdies in muscling his way to a final round 66 for a share of 13th in the co-sanctioned event to the east of Joburg. The effort for the Galgorm Castle ...

Bush-loving South African Ockie Strydom posted a score of 69 for the win the Alfred Dunhill Championship by two shots at 18-under, and with the 37-year-old claiming a maiden DP World Tour win in a 39th event. Strydom’s win, and in the fifth event of the new 2022/23 season guarantees the Serengeti Golf & Wildlife Estate attached golfer a virtual three-year Tour exemption till the end of 2025 following his victory on the course that overlooks the bush of Kruger National Park. A moment to remember ...

Aussie Richard Green has stormed his way onto the 2023 PGA Champions Tour in dramatic manner posting an 18 under par four round score of 266 at TPC Scottsdale to win by four shots and the top spot at the Champions Qualifying School in Arizona. The 51 year-old Melbourne-born lefty, and affectionately long know as ‘Greeny’ capped his career early-on in denying major champions Greg Norman and Ian Woosnam in a play-off to capture the 1997 Dubai Desert Classic and in the process becoming ...

Scott Jamieson remains on target to end a decade-long winless drought heading to the final round of the Alfred Dunhill Championship in South Africa. Jamieson had let slip a three-shot lead going into golf’s traditional ‘moving day’ but regrouped in a round of 70 and end the day tied for the lead at 15-under-par on the Leopard Creek course at Malelane, some 250-miles to the east of Joburg. The Scot’s new course record 63 from day two lasted just one round with South African Ockie Strydom posting ...

It’s a sight not often seen during formal competition in men’s golf and that’s the wearing of shorts. Of course, men are allowed to wear shorts during DP World Tour and PGA Tour practice rounds but once the competition proper gets underway, it’s the standard trousers for all players. Though this is not the rule at this week’s co-sanctioned Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek in South Africa with officials relaxing the trousers-rule to allow the wearing of shorts. NICE ...

Scott Jamieson was devouring the course with a record-setting 63 as a pride of lions dined out close-by on day two of the Alfred Dunhill Championship in South Africa. Jamieson muscled his way to a three-shot lead at 13-under-par on the host Leopard Creek course that borders the famed Kruger National Park at Malelane, some 250-miles east of the capital Johannesburg. The Scot’s nine-under score is one fewer than Tartan colleague David Drysdale’s course record low of 64 on day three in 2016 ...