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Scotland’s Scott Jamieson pulled off his own ‘Italian Job’ and heads to Tour HQ this week now inside the cut-off mark for those who’ll retain full 2022 European Tour membership. Jamieson grabbed six birdies, including five from the third to ninth holes, in a closing four-under 67 and finished in a share of eighth place at nine-under par in the 78th DS Automobiles Italian Open on Rome’s Marco Simone course that will play host to the 2023 Ryder Cup. The effort is the Florida-based ...

Thomas Bjorn has led the tributes to the 21-year-old Hojgaard twins Rasmus and Nicolai after they created a world first in professional golf in winning back-to-back on the European Tour. A week after Rasmus birdied the last to capture the Omega European Masters in Switzerland and brother Nicolai did the same on the final green to win the 78th DS Automobiles Italian Open on the Marco Simone course in Rome. Nicolai’s birdie at the last in a round of 71 saw him finish at 13-under par and a shot ...

Rory McIlroy has revealed how he ‘gate-crashed’ a team meeting hosted by USA Ryder Cup captain Steve Stricker and believed included a number of Stricker’s big guns and possible and probable team members. McIlroy spoke of casually walking into the meeting within a restaurant at the official hotel for this week’s Tour Championship in Atlanta. He said laughing: “I called in. I was eating in the same vicinity, so I called in and said hello. “It was all good, the players were ...

Rory McIlroy brilliantly birdied his closing three holes to boost hopes of becoming the first to capture three FedEx Cup championship crowns in Atlanta, Georgia. Mcllroy added a second round four-under par 66 and head to the clubhouse then sharing sixth place on day two of the Tour Championship on the host East Lake course. And under the unique scoring format in this the remaining in the 2020/21 PGA Tour season it sees McIlroy, and in the bigger PGA Tour No. 1 title, at eight-under par. McIlroy ended ...

For Scott Jamieson it’s his own ‘Italian Job’ as he goes about retaining his Tour card for an 11th straight season with a gutsy 67 on day two of the 78th DS Automobiles Italian Open in Rome. Jamieson grabbed six birdies in his four-under effort to muscle his way just outside the top-10 at five-under par on the Marco Simone course that will also play host to the 2023 Ryder Cup. Scottish Open champ Min Woo Lee of Australia jumped two shots clear of the field with a second day 68 ...

Stop looking!  The Search is over.  Rory McIlroy’s missing 3-wood has been found. McIlroy ‘lost’ the 3-wood off in hurling it in disgust off the ninth tee at the Liberty National course during the final round of the weather-delayed Northern Trust in New Jersey. The four-time major winner said in disowning the club he hurled in the direction of the New Jersey Turnpike and then once news broke of the incident, and ahead of last week’s BMW Championship, every man and his black dog seemed ...

Rory McIlroy was heading straight for the range after this patience was tested with three bogeys in four holes near the end of his round of 68 on the opening day of the season-ending Tour Championship in Atlanta. McIlroy, under the unique scoring procedure in place at East Lake, began the round at two-under par but eight shots behind American Patrick Cantlay, who headed the 30-player field by two shots at 10-under par. And after McIlroy’s two-under opening round he advances to four-under ...