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Jose Maria Olazabal says he’ll have no issue if fellow double Masters winning Bubba Watson and now LIV golfer asks him to pass the salt at this April’s ‘Former Augusta Champions’ dinner. Olazabal, who turns 57 early next month, will be attending his 34th Masters since making his debut in 1985 and also a 25th ‘Former Champions’ dinner since winning the first of two green jackets in 1994. However, Olazabal does not agree with fellow Spaniard Jon Rahm, who suggested late last year that the ...

Seamus Power was headed to Abu Dhabi for the first time in his career proudly still No. 1 on the PGA Tour money list. It’s been nearly 10-weeks since Power captured a second PGA Tour title at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship that took him to the top of the FedEx Cup  money chase in the wraparound 2022/23 tour schedule. Power headed into the Christmas/New Year break as the top-earner on the tour’s money-list and remains No. 1 after his share of 25th place in the Sentry Tournament of Champions ...

​ When the curtain came down on season 2022, and easily the most controversial in the history of men’s professional golf, one of the more talked about topics was the lack of comment from the office of the PGA Tour Commissioner. Talk to observers in golf and it was Rory McIlroy, as Players Advisory Chairman, doing all the talking from the PGA Tour & DP World Tour side of the controversy involving LIV Golf, including his infamous verbal hand grenade hurled at LIV CEO Greg Norman, ahead ...

  Jon ‘Rambo’ Rahm has drawn first blood for Europe with his tearaway victory in the PGA Tour 2023 opening Sentry Tournament of Champions (TOC) Rahm came from seven shots back at the start of the final round and despite a bogey at the first, he posted a blistering nine-under 63 to win by two shots at 27-under-par on the host Kapalua course in Hawaii.  The win also comes a year after finished runner-up to Aussie Cam Smith. The champion Spaniard was competing in a regular PGA Tour event for ...

  Scotland’s David Drysdale posted a closing round of 71 to muscle his way among the leading 24 qualifiers heading to next fortnight’s Asian Tour Q-School final in Thailand. Drysdale, 47, shared 14th place at the close of Section C Asian Tour qualifying among 119 starters on the famed Blue Canyon course where in 1998 Tiger Woods, as the then Masters champion and his first major, overcame an eight shot deficit on the final day, shooting a 65 to beat Ernie Els in a play-off and capture ...

Double Tour winning Ewen Ferguson will take the hour’s drive south to Abu Dhabi this coming week and his first New Year competition steps that could hopfully lead to him boarding a charter flight later this year to Rome. Ferguson, 26, has been in Dubai since a week prior to Christmas working on his game before he joins fellow Scot Bob MacIntyre in the 10-man GB & I team to tackle a European side in the inaugural Hero Cup. The Hero Cup, akin to the Seve Trophy that ran from 2000 to 2013, starts ...

As ​​happily predicted by ​GolfByTourMiss, Scott Stallings the professional golfer has reached out to his namesake, Scott Stallings and the Atlanta-based realtor, offering him ​player guest passes into this year’s Masters. The two Scott Stallings have never met nor their two wives who also share the same first name of Jennifer. However, the current World No. 57 ranked Stallings has Stallings, and also a part-time golfer, to thank after the second Stallings thought all his​ golfing​ ...