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A month ago, Rory Sabbatini was lamenting a four missed cut in succession to be languishing outside the leading 125 on the PGA Tour money list. That all changed 12 days ago when the 45-year-old now Slovakian citizen posted a sizzling final round 61 to sensationally secure the silver medal at the Japan Olympics. Now Sabbatini has continued his Olympic Games form grabbing six birdies, and in also headwave conditions as experienced in Japan, in a round of a six-under par 64 to be sharing the lead at ...

Scotland’s Russell Knox has produced his lowest score since his first round last September of the 2020/21 season with a sizzling 63 on day two of the Wyndham Championship in North Carolina Knox sensationally holed his 118-yard second shot for an eagle ‘2’ at the 13th and had six birdies in his seven-under par effort to move to three-uder par in heatwave conditions of the Sedgefield County Club course. And fellow Scot Bob MacIntye birdied three of his closing five holes in a round of 68 ...

In-form Scot Calum Hill superbly elbowed his way amid many England flags to again be in contention at the Cazoo Classic in Kent. Hill, 26, capped his round chipping-in for an eagle ‘3’ at the fifth and then birdied the sixth in a superb bogey-free 67 to move to a share of third at nine-under par at the London Club. England’s Dale Whitnall (68) and Welshman Rhys Enoch (65) share the lead at 10-under par and Hill tied with with England’s Jordan Smith (69). A week ago, it was Tartan flags ...

Scotland’s Michele Thomson and her manager Paul Lawrie now share a rare double after Thomson set a new ladies Dumbarnie Links course record on the opening day of the Trust Golf Scottish Women’s Open. Thomson, 33, had bogeyed the first but then eagled the par-5 second and while dropping a second shot at the fifth, she grabbed seven birdies over her closing 11 holes for a Ladies European Tour (LET) career low of a seven-under par 65 to the lead the event by two shots. Waiting for Thomson with ...

Seamus Power returned from a three-week maiden Tour victory break to continue his great season form with a 67 on day one of the Wyndham Championship. Power grabbed four birdies and dropped just one shot in a four-under par tally to be just three off the early Sedgefield Country Club lead in heatwave conditions in suburban Greensboro, North Carolina. Last month’s Barbasol Championship winner spent time off celebrating with his father and family back home in Ireland before jetting off to Las Vegas ...

Justin Rose still remembers as a youngster being thrown a golf ball by Payne Stewart who was then competing at the 1993 Open Championship at Royal St. George’s. Nearly 30-years on and Rose has been honoured as the 2021 recipient of the PGA Tour’s Payne Stewart Award. The accolade, in honour of the World Golf Hall of Fame member and 11-time PGA Tour winner who tragically died in an air disaster in 1999, is awarded to the golfer who exemplifies Stewart’s steadfast values of character, charity ...

This week’s European Tour stop brings back special memories of events of 12-years ago at the London Golf Club. It was 2009 and the second of just two years the European Open was staged at the London Club, located to the south-east of London and close to the famed Brands Hatch race car circuit. England’s Ross Fisher had won the event a year prior by a very impressive seven shots on the famed Kent course. Much of the pre-2009 tournament fuss was centered around Ireland’s Shane Lowry who was making ...