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A frustrated Shane Lowry was hoping the wind blew over the closing stages of the second round to dry out the Copperhead Course heading to the weekend rounds of the Valspar Championship near Tampa in Florida. Lowry grabbed three birdies in a round of 68 and headed to lunch at five-under-par and just outside the then leading 20 in the $7.8m event. It left him trailing seven shots adrift of Canadian Adam Hadley and with the 2017 Valspar winner adding a 66 to his opening 64, and move to 12-under ...

.. Fatiha Betscher Henrik Stenson’s selection as 2023 European Ryder Cup captain clearly will not make it any easier if Graeme McDowell is to captain Europe in 2027 at Adare Manor. It was mid-2019 when Adare Manor was awarded the 2026 Ryder Cup and McDowell was immediately touted as the possible European Team captain on Irish home soil. That view did not change when the worldwide pandemic saw the 2020 Ryder Cup pushed back to 2021, resulting in all future Ryder Cup’s returning to an odd-numbered ...

Shane Lowry was not only full of praise for new European Ryder Cup captain Henrik Stenson but also declaring his determination to qualify automatically next year for the Swede’s team heading to Rome. Lowry and fellow Irishman Graeme McDowell found themselves grouped with Stenson for the opening two rounds of this week’s Valspar Championship near Naples in Florida. And as hinted ahead of tee-off, it came as no surprise what the topic of conversation was among the trio of Major Champions as they headed ...

Ex-winning Ryder Cupper Stephen Gallacher delivered new European Team captain Henrik Stenson a ringing endorsement declaring: “Henrik is the best man for the job’ heading into next year’s Rome showdown. After months of negative headlines and selection uncertanity Stenson was handed the Rome reins and, in the process, becoming the first Swede to captain a European Team Gallacher, and a member of Paul McGinley’s winning 2014 team at Gleneagles, was asked what he thought of Stenson’s ...

Updated ahead 2026 Valspar Championship …. The Snake Pit!  Three words that may quickly conjure up thoughts of horror, excruciating pain and possibly death. Though for those enjoying the game of golf the Snake Pit is the famed final three-hole stretch on the Copperhead Course at the Innisbrook Resort that is again proudly playing host to the 2026 $9.1m Valspar Championship at Palm Harbor on the Florida west coast. The PGA Tour’s Shot Link rate the 16th, 17th and 18th holes at Copperhead ...

No guessing what the first topic of conversation will be when the Irish duo of Shane Lowry and Graeme McDowell are joined by Sweden’s Henrik Stenson for the opening two rounds of this week’s Valspar Championship in Florida. It will be a first-round for Stenson as the 2023 European Ryder Cup captain and, if all goes well over the ensuing 18-months, the two Irish will be joining Stenson later next year in Rome. Lowry will look to be making a first Ryder Cup appearance on home European soil, ...

For Henrik Stenson, it’s been a bizarre four months, the likes never experienced before on the European Tour in the choosing of the 2023 European Ryder Cup captain. Stenson’s appointment to lead Europe into competition in Rome did come as a surprise to many given his strong connection since near the inception of talk of a breakaway Saudi-backed Premier Golf League. Though in now congratulating Stenson, the soon-to-be 46-year-old Swede ticks the European captaincy box when it comes to age, ...