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No trip home to Ireland is now more important in Shane Lowry’s already illustrious career than the flight that arrives into Dublin Airport tomorrow morning (Monday). Lowry and his family will touch down on Irish soil with Lowry confident of cementing his place, and without the need for a ‘wildcard’ pick,  next Sunday fortnight in Padraig Harrington’s European Ryder Cup team. He had ideally hoped to be headed to Atlanta, Georgia but instead Lowry will be at home and with now all ...

Robert MacIntyre will now take his ‘every man and his dog wants to play the PGA Tour’ determination to this week’s final Korn Ferry Tour event in Indiana in a goal to win full main tour membership. MacIntyre added a second round 72 to his opening 68 to miss the cut by a shot at the Korn Ferry Tour’s season-penultimate Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship in Columbus. The champion Scot had been well-placed post Thursday’s opener but a hat-trick of bogeys from his sixth hole spoilt ...

It didn’t take long for the management at Liberty National to send out a search party for Rory McIlroy’s ‘missing’ 3-wood. McIlroy unwittingly revealed he had tossed his 3-wood into trees off the ninth tee during Monday’s final round of the Northern Trust at the New Jersey course The four-time major winner, and who it has been also revealed is a member of Liberty National, said in tossing his 3-wood he tried to land it on the New Jersey Turnpike but looking at our Google snap of the area ...

Top-ranked Scot Robert MacIntyre is again hitting ‘the numbers’ with his irons as his efforts to secure his PGA Tour card received a confidence-lift with a three-under par 68 on day one of the Korn Ferry event in Columbus, Ohio. MacIntyre grabbed four birdies, and none beter than a 30-footer at his opening hole, and with an only bogey at 17 at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship on the Scarlet course at Ohio State University. MacIntyre headed to lunch delighted to be behind ...

Rory McIlroy has challenged golf fans to retrieve a 3-wood he hurled deep into bushes off the ninth tee during Monday’s finish to the Northern Trust in New Jersey. McIlroy made the confession of club-throwing ahead of this week’s BMW Championship and after his lowly 43rd finish in the opening event of the lucrative Play-Off Series at the Liberty National course in the Garden State. He said:  “I tried to throw my 3-wood off the ninth hole at Liberty National onto the New Jersey Turnpike, ...

For a second week running Sweden’s Henrik Stenson finds himself directly under the European Ryder Cup selection eye. Last week, Stenson found himself playing the first two rounds in the company of European captain, Padraig Harrington and now this week the five-time Ryder Cup veteran has been grouped for the opening two days of the Omega European Masters with Whistling Straits vice-captain Martin Kaymer and 2018 Ryder Cup hero Francesco Molinari, who is the third member of the group teeing-up ...

Danny Willett has returned to one of his favourite tournament destinations high in the Swiss Alps, hoping it will be all downhill in coming months. The now 33-year-old Englishman has special memories both on and off this week’s host Crans-Montana course and where he tasted success in 2015. Willett’s victory was a harbinger to two remarkable milestones, firstly in becoming a father and then seven months after being fitted with the traditional red victors jacket, he was also helped into a Augusta ...