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Irish rookie pro John Murphy has a real spring in his step heading to the all-important third round of the Alfred Dunhill Links at St. Andrews. Murphy shares the leading Irish honours after a gutsy round of a three-under par 69 in cold and very windy conditions on the Kingsbarns Links course and move into a share of seventh place in the Euro 4.31 event Joining Murphy just three shots from the lead is Shane Lowry who was also at Kingsbarns Links where he birdied three of his closing four holes in ...

Glasgow’s Ewen Ferguson remains ‘on song’ as the leading Scot heading to the third round of the Alfred Dunhill Championship. Ferguson, and with The Vamps lead singer Brad Simpson as his partner, capped his round with a 14th hole eagle ‘3’ in posting a gutsy 73 at Carnoustie to be just four off the lead at six-under par. Both Ferguson and Simpson are managed by Niall Horan’s Modest Golf and at 25-years (Ferguson) and 26-years of age respectively, Ferguson is loving teaming with Simpson. He ...

Ryder Cup stars Tyrrell Hatton and Tommy Fleetwood clearly are revelling in a home crowd environment to be in contention at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. Hatton, winner of the event back-to-back in 2016 and ’17, toughed-out a round of 70 in very windy conditions at Kingsbarns Links to move to 10-under par and one clear of fellow Englishman Daniel Gavins who signed for a 68 at Carnoustie. Danny Willett grabbed a 12th hole eagle at Kingsbarns Links in a score of 69 to be tied in ...

Crestfallen captain Padraig Harrington reckons his European Team team were beaten at their own-game by a copy-cat Stars and Stripes winning side. Harrington has returned to regular competition fighting wind and rain in shooting a three-over 75 at Carnoustie Links on day one of the 20th anniversary Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. Europe’s captain however found himself being warmed at every turn of the Scottish course where in 2007 he captured the first of back-to-back Open Championship titles ...

Thirty-seven years on and Javier Ballesteros brilliantly repeated his father Seve’s effort with a birdie at the final hole of the Old Course at St. Andrews. Javier, 31, had not been born when his father drained a 15-foot left-to-right birdie putt to win the 1984 Open Championship at the Home of Golf and Seve’s fourth of five major victories in his career. And Javier, in his first competitive round at the Home of Golf, duplicated his much-missed late father’s effort landing a wedge shot to just ...

Oban Celtic’s Bob MacIntyre tees-up in this week’s 20th Alfred Dunhill Links Championship sporting a bunch of bruises from his side’s 8-nil thumping last Saturday of Aberdour. As the best golfers in Europe were struggling last Saturday along the shores of Lake Michigan, MacIntyre was loving being in the deep end of the Mowi Senior C League at Silversands. And while Rory McIlroy missed-out in contesting the 2015 Open at St. Andrews after injuring his leg in a friendly football match, MacIntrye ...

Visiting American Billy Horschel, and while delighted for his victorious Ryder Cup team-mates, revealed a recent conversation with Rory McIlroy when the duo agreed it would be good to rewind the clock to their pre-professional ‘rambunctious’ ways, The conversation Horschel spoke of with McIlroy was during the recent PGA Tour’s BMW Championship as they discussed how they carried themselves in being on opposing teams at the 2007 Walker Cup at Royal County Down compared to the events that now ...