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American Sean Crocker led from start-to-finish to celebrate capturing a maiden pro career title with his one-shot victory at the Hero Open near St. Andrews. Crocker, who turns 29 in exactly a month, posted a gutsy final round four-under-par 68 and hold on by a shot to win with a 22-under victory tally on the Torrance Course at the Fairmont Resort. The win for Crocker comes also in his 107th DP World Tour event and is his very first taste of success in the pro ranks for the golfer, who grew-up in ...

American Sean Crocker admits he would love ‘something shiny’ as he remains on target capture not only a maiden DP World Tour win at the Hero Open but a first pro career success at the Fairmont Resort on the outskirts of St. Andrews. Crocker, and a month shy of his 26th birthday, has enjoyed three second-place results in his prior 106 DP World Tour starts, and now takes a two-shot lead into day four of the Euro 1.75m event The Zimbabwe-born Crocker, who used to play Test cricket before ...

Benbecula is an island of the Outer Hebrides in the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Scotland. It’s joined by a causeway to North Uist to the north and South Uist to the south. The island is about 12 kilometres (7 miles) from west to east and a similar distance from north to south. Benbecula’s main settlement and administrative centre is Balivanich (Scottish Gaelic: Baile a’ Mhanaich, meaning “Town of the Monk”). In 1746, Bonnie Prince Charlie was caught in ...

“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” One of the more memorable lines from Andy Dufresne in the ‘The Shawshank Redemption’. Sharing this theme is USA Ryder Cup captain Zach Johnson, clearly a golfer with hope.  Hope that one day he’ll wake-up and all will be right with the game of golf. At the moment, and with 14 months to tee-off in the Rome Ryder Cup, Johnson hasn’t a hope in hell idea who will be left around who hasn’t already jumped ...

Scott Jamieson is determined to strike a second straight victory blow for the Tartan ‘old guys’ to be lying second to lead the Tartan charge into the weekend rounds of the Hero Open at the Fairmont Resort near St. Andrews. Jamieson posted a second-round bogey-free eight-under 64 to move to 14-under-par and just one adrift of American Sean Crocker, who continues to lead on the Torrance Course at 15-under. Jamieson, and after a blemish-free opening 66, is the only player inside the top-10 not ...

Luke Donald’s name is strongly emerging to be confirmed next week as the replacement 2023 European Ryder Cup captain following the shock sacking of Swede Henrik Stenson. Donald’s name had been seriously in the Rome captaincy mix late last year when GolfByTourMiss was talking exclusively during the course of the Hero World Challenge with potential replacements for Irishman Padraig Harrington. The US-based Donald has the distinction of playing in four straight victorious European Teams ...

Defending Hero Open champion Grant Forrest sensationally ended his day’s work with ultra-rare back-to-back eagles on day one of the event on the Torrance course at the Fairmont Resort on the outskirts of St. Andrews. Forrest holed a 40-footer for an eagle ‘3’ at the par-5 sixth or the 15th of his round, and at the next, the short par-4 seventh the Craigielaw player buried a 21-footer for an eagle ‘2’ for a four-under 68. A RARE 🦅🦅EFFORT … As 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ...