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Richie Ramsay may need to deviate from the ‘straight and narrow’ if he’s to win this week’s Canary Islands Championship in Tenerife. The event is the final in a three-event ‘Canary Islands Swing’ before the Tour heads next week to the UK for a first time in 2021 and the BetFred British Masters at The Belfry. Ramsay is among four Scots who remained on Tenerife after contesting last week’s Tenerife Open and with this week’s event again being staged for a second week running on the ...

Rory McIlroy is returning to competition for a first time since last month’s Masters but lost amid talk of the Special Golf League and the Tour’s Player Impact Program is his superb record of success at Quail Hollow and venue for this week’s Wells Fargo Championship. Eleven years ago, McIlroy celebrated the first of now 18 PGA Tour victories and posting a new course record 62 on the final day to capture the then 2010 Quail Hollow Championship. Five years later, McIlroy stormed ...

PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monihan again has treatened suspension to any PGA Tour member tempted to join a breakaway Super Golf League (SGL). Monihan was on hand to speak to the PGA Tour rank-and-file at a mandatory players meeting late on Tuesday afternoon (US time) ahead of this week’s Wells Fargo Championship at Charlotte in North Carolina. The meeting was called following an article in a London newspaper that the PGL has again been approaching some of the PGA Tour’s top players with ...

Webb Simpson was headed into a  mandatory PGA Tour ‘Players Meeting’ late Tuesday afternoon (US time) at this week’s Wells Fargo Championship hoping, and like each of his Tour colleagues, that PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan and Players Advisory Chairman Rory McIlroy between them had answers to the continuing questions being asked of the Tour’s best. The questions, and clearly clouding pre-tournament interview, have been originating from the media covering golf in seeking answers to the ...

Seamus Power brilliantly returned from a self-quarantine curfew to finish first in a qualifier for this week’s lucrative Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina. The West Waterford golfer grabbed six birdies in a bogey-free 62 on the Gaston Country club course and located some 40-minutes from this week’s Euro 7.1m event. The 34-year-old Power had to sit-out the recent Zurich Classic due to testing positive to Covid-19 on April 20th and returned to competition for a first time Monday ...

Dates: May 3-9, 2021                           Where: Charlotte, North Carolina Course: Quail Hollow Club (35-36—71/7,521) Defending champion (2019): Max Homa Purse: $8,100,000 ($1,458,000/winner) FedExCup: 500 points to the winner Field size: 156 Format: 72-hole stroke play Things to Know Due to COVID-19, the Wells Fargo Championship was not contested in 2020 Field includes four of top-five players in Official World Golf Ranking: Justin Thomas (2), Jon Rahm ...

New Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama has been honoured with the Prime Minister’s Award from Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga in Tokyo in recognition of him becoming the country’s first male major champion. Matsuyama, 29, brought a golf mad nation to a standstill earlier this month in become the first Japanese male not only to be the first to win the Masters but a first to win a Major. However, the continuing Covid-19 restrictions meant both Matsuyama and Prime Minister Suga had to ...