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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, ...

Scotland’s Russell Knox singled the support of PGA Tour legends Fred Funk and Len Mattice as pivotal to producing his best finish at the Players Championship in Florida. Knox, 36, signed for a final 70 for a share of sixth and 28 places higher than his prior best of T34th on his Players debut in 2014. Cam Smith, sporting his ‘Mullet’ hairstyle, became the sixth Aussie to win the Players but only after a bizarre last hole where, and when leading by two shots, he chipped his second shot from ...

… by Fatiha Betscher  2022 Players Championship -Final-Round Notes – Monday, March 14, 2022  Weather: Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. High of 67 Wind E 10-20 mph. Final Leaderboard                  Cameron Smith                       69-71-69-66—275 (-13) Anirban Lahiri                          67-73-67-69—276 (-12) Paul Casey                              70-69-69-69—277 (-11) Kevin Kisner   ...