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Major champ Collin Morikawa is not only seeing July’s AIS Scottish Open as a good warm-up for also a maiden Open Championship appearance but he’s out to win at The Renaissance Club to the east of Edinburgh. Morikawa will be making a first visit to the UK in teeing-up at the July 8th commencing event at The Renaissance Club in East Lothian. Surprisingly, it will be Morikawa’s first visit to the UK and as such also his maiden Open Championship a week later at Royal St. George’s. “Playing ...

Newly-crowned PGA Championship winner Phil Mickelson has lavished praised on England’s Richard Bland following his own historic triumph a week earlier at The Belfry. Bland, 47, ending a 478 winless drought with his emotional success on the famed Ryder Cup host venue. The affable Bland returns to competition at this week’s Made in Himmerland (and formerly the Made In Denmark) still very much on a high following his play-off triumph 10 days earlier. And in speaking of his first win on the ...

In a six-week span we’ve had four of the best golfing stories for years. First was Hideki Matsuyama’s history-making Masters triumph and followed a week later by then 47-year-old Stewart Cink, and with son Raegan on the bag, capturing the RBC Heritage by an amazing four shots. A fortnight ago, there were the highly-emotional scenes of England’s 48-year-old Richard Bland’s BetFred British Masters triumph and then eight days later a near 51-year-old Phil Mickelson won a ninth ...

Top-ranked Scot Robert MacIntyre has admitted to being ‘fearful’ of spectators getting too close while competing Stateside. MacIntyre, and speaking ahead of this week’s European Tour Made in Himmerland (Denmark), highlighted examples during last week’s PGA Championship when he may have been off-line with a shot but was then very concerned with the crowd gathering too close ahead of playing executing a next on the Ocean Course. The current World No. 46 was contesting a second ...

Former champ Graeme McDowell has seen two rain delays over two days of what was supposed to be a one-day 36-hole qualifier in Dallas ruin his chances of qualifying for next month’s US Open McDowell’s 10-year exemption in lifting the gleaming US Open trophy on Father’s Day in 2011 along the shoreline at Pebble Beach ended last year at Bethpage Park on New York’s Long Island. It meant unless he was exempt via other means, which he was not, teeing-up in a number of qualifiers and with McDowell ...

Jordan Spieth’s revelation that he retains an autograph of Phil Mickelson from when was around 12-years-old is another of those remarkable stories in golf. Mickelson’s autograph appears on the front cover of a 2004 edition of Sports Illustrated magazine. It’s the now infamous photograph of Mickelson jumping for joy in capturing the 2004 Masters and his first major championship title. Spieth was asked ahead of this week’s Charles Schwab Challenge, and being hosted again ...

Those visiting US-based players could be in for a rude shock when arriving in the UK for July’s 149th Open Championship at Royal St. George’s. The seemingly ‘what global pandemic’ manner now evident in the US,  and so noticeable at last week’s PGA Championship, will give way to the strictness of a first major championship to be played ‘in the bubble’. The European Tour has been back to staging events ‘in the bubble’ since last July’s BetFred British Masters and that protocol ...