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Seamus Power was brilliantly soaring high on the board with two eagles on day two of the Sentry Tournament of Champions at the Plantation course in Hawaii. Power eagled the fifth and 15th holes and grabbed four other birdies in a blemish-free second round of an eight-under par 65 to jump 17 places and into a share of eighth place in the no-cut, 39-player, winner’s only event on the island of Maui. Aussie Cameron Smith continues to show the way adding a 64 to his opening score of 65 and ...

… by Fatiha Betscher Legendary Jack Nicklaus has expressed his delight with news he’s to be made an ‘Honorary Citizen of St. Andrews’. The local St. Andrews Community Council wrote to the 18-time major champion with the offer and with Nicklaus confirming he will be present during the July 150th Open Championship celebrations to accept the honour. The award comes 17-years after a similar Council proposal was made in 2005 ahead of the Golden Bear’s final Open Championship but with ...

Seamus Power will head into Thursday’s starting Sentry Tournament of Champions in Hawaii carrying the admiration of two Irish-born major champions – Padraig Harrington and Shane Lowry. Power is among just 39 players, including 38 fellow PGA Tour winners from 2021 and also Olympic Gold Medal-winning Xander Schauffle, contesting the first event of the New Year on the Plantation Course at Kapalua in Maui. The West Waterford golfer earned his place in the Euro 7.3m event on the back of last July’s ...

One of the rewards in reporting on tournament golf is to admire first-hand how new golf courses hosting new tournaments have matured. I was present at the 1991 Dubai Desert Classic and have been amazed not only at how the Majlis course has matured but how much Dubai has grown.  It is the same in attending the second Qatar Masters and admiring how the Doha Golf Club has matured and also how the course, once on the outskirts of the Qatar capital is now surrounded by buildings. Scotland’s Kingsbarns ...

The Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR) have been released for the first week of 2022  and with Spaniard Jon Rahm enjoying the honour of leading the world’s best into what is now the 36th anniversary of the Rankings that first began at the 1986 Masters. Here is the golf’s current top-50:- 1. Jon Rahm, Spain 2. Collin Morikawa, USA 3. Dustin Johnson, USA 4. Patrick Cantlay, USA 5. Bryson DeChambeau, USA 6. Xander Schauffele, USA 7. Viktor Hovland, Norway 8. Justin Thomas, USA 9. Rory ...

In working the PGA Tour, we’ve spent many hours driving the Interstates of the U.S. I could probably mention every bend on the I-95 between West Palm Beach and the Georgia border and I could tell how many ‘bumps’ there are on the I-10 between Jacksonville and Texas. Of course, I’m exaggerating but you get the idea. A great thing about driving between Tour stops is the opportunities it presents compared to flying.   I cannot remember the number of occasions we’ve ended-up ...

For the Emirates Golf Club and host to the 2022 Slync.io Dubai Desert Classic, it was an exercise delving into the past in looking ahead to the future. It’s remarkable that the first golf course to be built on the Arabian Peninsula will at the end of January 2022 celebrate the 34th anniversary of the tournament. The Carl Litten-designed course was built in 1987 and two years later joined the European Tour schedule. Back then, the course was sitting all by itself laid out in the desert far away ...