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Top-ranked Scot Robert MacIntyre has returned home rewarded with the assurance from next month of unlimited invitations on the new 2021/22 PGA Tour schedule. MacIntyre’s quest for full Tour membership ended Sunday with a share of 65th place in the regular Tour season-ending Wyndham Championship in North Carolina. As it turned out, MacIntyre needed to have made the play-off to be assured of finishing inside the top-125 on the money list and the guarantee of full Tour membership for the start of ...

This week’s hosting of the AIG Women’s Open might be one of the most coveted prizes in the world of golf, but the prestigious Smyth Salver is also up for grabs at the championship being played from 19-22 August at Carnoustie, with six amateurs currently in with a chance of claiming the award. Presented to the leading amateur who completes all four rounds, the Smyth Salver has an impressive roll of honour that includes Major champions Michelle Wie West (2005), Anna Nordqvist (2008), Danielle ...

‘Iceman’ Calum Hill brilliantly buried last week’s demons not only to capture a maiden Tour win but also help grab a rare Scottish golfing Tour double with victory at the Cazoo Classic. Hill, 26, held his nerve to win by a shot with a closing 67 for a 16-under par tally on the London Club in Kent. Alex Levy posted a sizzling 64 to finish runner-up at 15-under par but having had to wait five-holes before Hill calmly pared the last to decide the Frenchman’s fate. Hill joins good friend ...

Grant Forrest will return to competition next week determined to cement his place into next year’s 150th anniversary Open Championship. The recent Hero Open winner is continuing to savour his breakthrouh Tour success when he birdied the closing two holes at the Fairmont Resort at St. Andrews. The win lifted Forrest to 35th on the Race to Dubai rankings and while assured of qualifying among the top-60 and the season-ending DP World Tour Championship, it’s next year’s Open he’s also focussed. It ...

On any of the prior Saturday’s Seamus Power has competed at the Wyndham Championship the Irishman would have good cause to be really disappointed. Saying that, walking off with a third round two-over par 72 on this, his fifth visit to Sedgefield Country Club, was not part of the script for the reigning Barbasol Championship champion. It was a second highest round in 16 loops of the Greensboro layout and two fewer than a 74 in missing the third round cut in his 2017 debut in the event while Power ...

Scotland’s David Drysdale and his wife/caddy, Vicky will be no doubt be hoping they have a special ‘guest’ in the back seat when the duo head north following the close of this week’s Cazoo Classic at the London Club. ‘Double D’ superbly muscled his way into a share of sixth place on the back of bogey-free 67 for a nine-under par tally on day three of the inaugural event in Kent. The superb effort on golf’s traditional ‘moving day’ sees Drysdale ...

In-form Calum Hill remains in sight of not only a maiden Tour win but a unique slice of Scottish history heading to the final round of the Cazoo Classic at the London Club in Kent. Hill, 26 posted a bogey-free two-under 70 to be sharing second place and tied at 11-under par with England’s Jordan Smith Dane Rasmus Hojgaard set a new course record 62 to move three clear of the field as 14-under par as the 20-year-old seeks a third Tour triumph. Hill’s ‘moving day’ was a frustrating affair failing ...