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Former champ Padraig Harrington boosted his season-ending Tour Championship qualifying credentials with a bogey-free 67 on the opening day of the Portugal Masters. Harrington, and winner of the event five years ago, ended the round in a six-way share of fourth place at four-under par on the Victoria course at Vilamoura. Swiss-born Italian Nino Bertasio went within two shots on the third-year anniversary in matching England’s Ollie Fisher’s 2018 Tour milestone of a score of 59 with an impressive ...

Top-ranked Scot Robert MacIntyre will make his Portugal Masters debut this week promising a far more ‘aggressive’ approach on the course to host the European Tour’s only 59. It’s just over three years since Englishman Ollie Fisher became the first and still only Tour player to finally become a a member of the Tour’s ’59 Club’. MacIntyre got his first look at a rain-softened host Victoria course and reckons 69 would be good score as he returns to competition after a fortnight’s break. He ...

Scotland’s Russell Knox was heading to Mexico looking for less bruising weather conditions than he faced on the final day of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. Knox had been out in the second group on day one experiencing cramps in  both hands as he fought to control his umbrella in the wet and very windy conditions on the Port Royal course. And it was a repeat of the wild Atlantic weather on day four with Knox standing tall in shooting a gutsy four-under par 67 for an eventual 10-under ...

Lucas Herbert has become the newest Aussie to win on the lucrative PGA Tour, brilliantly capturing the Butterfield Bermuda Championship in brutal conditions on the Port Royal course. Trailing three shots from the lead heading to the final round, Herbert closed out a third pro career success with a final round 69 to win by a shot at 15-under par. Masters champion Patrick Reed had set the clubhouse mark at 14-under par thanks to a rousing 65 to finish joint second with Kiwi Danny Lee who signed for ...

Scotland’s Russell Knox revealed he was still recovering from Thursday’s battering despite taking advantage on golf’s ‘moving day’ with five birdies in a rousing round 67 on day three of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. Knox found one of the shortest routes early on the largest of the 181 islands that make-up the Bermuda group in moving to six-under par ahead of the final day in the £stg 4.7m event. Inverness-born Knox was off to a great start with birdies on two and three ahead ...

Graeme McDowell maybe eight shots off the final round lead but he is relishing the opportunity being presented with the forecast of a return to strong winds and rain over the final day of the Bermuda Championship. McDowell looked to have found one of the shortest routes on the largest of the 181 islands that make-up the Bermuda group in racing to four-under par through seven holes but then stalling to complete the remaining 11 holes in level par. It handed McDowell a second straight four-under par ...

Scotland’s Russell Knox battled his way into the weekend rounds after the weather had earlier done the Scot little favour at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship. Knox birdied three of his closing five holes in posting a second round three-under par 68 and moved to two-under in the £stg 4.7m event on the Port Royal course. And there was none better than the delight of grabbing a birdie at the last as Knox revealed in the video hereunder A day earlier the Scot was out in the second group on ...