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Golf’s ‘Next Rory McIlroy’ and fellow Holywood star Tom Kibbin will make his professional debut next Thursday teeing-up in the European Tour’s Tenerife Open. McKibbin had missed out on his big goal to qualify for next month’s GB & I Walker Cup team and instead has made the move to join Holywood’s four-time major winning Rory McIlroy in the play-for-pay ranks. The Tenerife Open will be a first of handful of invitations the 18-year old will be afforded on both the European and secondary ...

Reigning Open Champion Shane Lowry reckons the next six to seven years of his career are crucial. The very affable Irishman took the golf world by storm in July, 2019 not only in capturing a maiden major championship by an impressive six shots but also providing a fairytale storyline 78-years after golf’s oldest major was first held on the Emerald isle. Lowry endeared himself to sports fans the world over with scenes of his wife, Wendy and young daughter, Iris as he held aloft the famed Claret ...

Scotand’s Connor Syme knows he needs to continue his birdie blitz if he’s to secure a maiden Tour win at the Gran Canaria Lopesan Open. Syme, 25, capped his third day’s play holing his second shot for an eagle ‘2’ at the par-4 10th and then birdied his next three in a blistering eight-under par 62 on the Meloneras course. It left him sharing second place on 16-under par with Frenchman Mattieu Pavon (64) and Austrian Matthias Schwab (66) and with the trio two shots adrift of South African ...

For a few seconds Graeme McDowell was totally unaware he had finally recorded a first ace in his PGA Tour career at the 17th hole of the TPC Louisana course on day two of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. McDowell was hitting off the odd-numbered holes in the alternate shot format and with tee shot of some 216-yards landing well short of the flag. G Mac picked-up his tee and moved to his golf bag when Wallace took him by compete surprise in grabbing him wildly on both shoulders given his English-born ...

Golf’s magical 59 still beckons with two rounds to play at the Gran Canaria Lopesan Open. One day one we had a new Meloneras course record of seven-under 63s set by four players. That was lowered by two shots on day two with nine-under par 61s by Dane Thorbjorn Olesen, England’s Sam Horsfield and Scot Connor Syme. Also on day two there were three scores 62s and nine scores of 63. Of the 74 players who made the very low five-under par there was only one who did not break 70 on day two. And ...

Connor Syme admits being taken by surprise in posting a career low and an equal new course record 61 on day two of the Gran Canaria Lopesan Open. Syme grabbed an eagle and seven birdies in a nine-under par score that was 10 strokes lower than his opening round for an eight-under 36-hole tally of the Meloneras course. The effort is the Drumoig golfer’s lowest in 67 Tour events since a 62 on day two of the 2018 Scottish Open at Gullane. Syme said: “The funny thing I didn’t know the course was ...

Congratulations to Dumbarnie Links in winning the 2021 Golf Development of the Year award by Golf Inc. Magazine. The annual award recognizes the best golf developments around the globe and with Dumbarnie Links having been open for less than 12 months. The course, and located around 20 miles from the Home of Golf at St. Andrews, was designed by Clive Clark. “My vision was to design a traditional links on what is a rare piece of genuine links land, but with a modern twist,” said Clark. “There ...