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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 ...

When Tom Watson went so close to capturing a sixth Open Championship in 2009, the American made then then biggest jump in the Official Golf World Rankings (OWGR) Watson’s efforts, and 23-years after the founding of the OWGR, in eventually finishing runner-up to Stewart Cink saw him jump 1,269 places to become the then new World No. 105th ranked golfer in the world. Since then Watson’s OWGR feat has been surpassed by many and with American Michael Arnaud now credited with the biggest OWGR ...

It will be the biggest change in the now 35-year history of the men’s Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR) with the governing body announcing major improvements to rankings from August next year. As of 8th of August 2022, each player in the OWGR system has a Strokes Gained (SG) World Rating based on their actual scores in stroke-play events adjusted for the relative difficulty of each round played over a rolling two-year period. A player’s SG World Rating determines the number of Performance ...

USA Ryder Cup captain Steve Stricker could be facing one of the biggest decisions in the countdown to next month’s Ryder Cup or is the choice easy? Does he pick a present average playing Phil Mickelson or does he hand the now 51-year-old current PGA Champion his 13th straight USA team cap? Mickelson has dropped to 18th place on the USA Team rankings following last Sunday’s share of 17th place at the WGC – FedEx St. Jude Invitational. Mickelson has been a cornerstone of a USA Ryder Cup side ...

Seamus Power has crossed ‘The Pond’ so many times in his career but there was nothing to match the emotion of a recent trip home nor the comfort and a new sense of security in returning to the States. Power is returning to competition as this week’s regular season-ending Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina. It will be a fifth straight yearly visit teeing-up on the Sedgefield Country Club course but this week’s appearance will be extra special as Power tees-up as a PGA Tour ...