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Scotland’s Ewen Ferguson produced plenty of magic taking full advantage of playing at close to 6,000-feet above sea level to set up a 66 on the opening day of the Magical Kenya Open in Nairobi. Ferguson, 25, grabbed an eagle and six birdies en route to a share of fourth at five-under on the Muthaiga course just to the north of the Kenyan capital. The club hosted the first Kenya Open in 1967 when amateur Guy Wolstoneholme denied five-time Open Champion Peter Thomson by four shots whereas this ...

… by Fatiha Betscher It’s time to cut embattled Phil Mickelson some slack. That’s the view of Rory McIlroy as long-time sponsors of Mickelson wasted little time in dumping the six-time major winner over recent controversial comments. Mickelson is taking a break from the game after losing sponsors KPMG, Amstel Light, and Workday, while Callaway Golf only a few days ago stated they would be ‘pausing’ their long-time equipment deal with the now 51-year-old. Speaking ...

One of the delights in driving up to the Bay Hill Club and Lodge, and home each year to the Arnold Palmer Invitational in surburban Orlando is there are no security gates, no security guard box and now even a simple electronically-operated boom gate. This is so vastly different to the scenario across America where, and even at some public courses, unless you have prior permission or a suitable pass, you just cannot get past the front gates. Of course, in this dangerous world that’s how sometimes ...

Shane Lowry will not take his near-winning Honda Classic form into this week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational and he disclosed he also will bypass for a second year not teeing up in Texas in the week prior to next month’s Masters. Not for a moment is Lowry throwing the toys out of his tournament’s pram following last Sunday’s bitter second-place finish. No, Lowry’s simply sticking to the plans he had in place before teeing up last week at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens. Lowry has ...

Shane Lowry was joking when he hopes he does not come under the watchful eye of a long-time good friend and now DP World Tour referee Michael Hoey. Hoey, 43, has won eight times in his pro career including five wins on the DP World Tour but is hanging up his clubs for a Golf Rules book. The Belfast golfer competed in 308 events capped with his two-shot victory over Rory McIlroy at the 2011 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship and won Euro 588,000 of his near Euro 4m in prize money. “I’ve known  ...

Scotland’s Russell Knox has welcomed the start of the ‘Florida Swing’ in boosting his bid to earn a long-overdue Masters return invitation. Knox tees up in this week’s Honda Classic and the first of four events the Scot is currently exempt on his home ‘Swing’. His return to Florida corresponds with an improvement in Knox’s world ranking and back to 230th in the world having corrected a recent Rankings slide in picking up 32 places in his last two events. And Knox has done so in ...

Shane Lowry wants it known he has no future ties with Saudi Golf and dispelled hurtful rumors he’s been offered any contract to be involved in a proposed Premier Golf League (SGL). Lowry took the highly unusual step of contacting www.golfbytourmiss.com first expressing his allegiance to the DP World and PGA Tour and then ruling out unsettling talk of being linked to controversial SGL. “I have never really said anything about it (SGL) because no one has ever asked me but the way I see it, ...