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Scot David Law grabbed an equal lowest opening score this season after his caddy took ill and the Aberdonian’s manager jumped in to carry the bag on the opening day of the Hero Open at the Fairmont Resort on the outskirts of St. Andrews. Law, 31, capped his equal lowest opening day score​ this year of a seven-under 65 in 17 events this year with five birdies in succession from his 12th hole in bright, warm and unusually calm conditions on the Torrance course. ​Joining Law on seven-under was ...

Six-year-old Olivia Ramsay is the proudest youngster in her Edinburgh school class. Sitting at home in her bedroom is the gleaming Cazoo Classic victory trophy won by her father last Sunday afternoon at Hillside. Olivia was just a twinkle in her now 49-year-old father’s eye when he last won on the DP World Tour over seven years ago in far off Morocco. Ramsay had promised her a trophy a few years back but then close earlier this year only to suffer the bitter disappointment in dunken a ball ...

Darren Clarke made it back-to-back Irish-born over-50 Major Champions in denying Padraig Harrington victory in the Senior Open Championship by Rolex at Gleneagles Clarke birdied the 72nd hole to win by a shot in a round of a one-under-par 69 for a four-round 10-under tally on the Kings Course. The win came just a month after Harrington, who brilliantly birdied six of his closing nine Gleneagles holes including the final two, captured the US Senior Open on June 26th, and while Harrington was naturally ...

Fore please! Doctor Jose Maria Olazabal now driving. This could be the introduction facing the double Augusta winner next April at the Masters. It sounds all right and proper for the winner of two Masters green jackets and that is what Augusta and European Ryder Cup captaincy hero is now to be addressed following the award of an honorary doctorate at the University of St. Andrews ahead of last week’s 150th Open. Joining Olazabal were fellow major winners in Lee Trevino, Sir Bob Charles, Sandy ...

  Dual European Ryder Cup captains Darren Clarke and Jose Maria Olazabal are united in declaring golf’s warring factions need to start talking to each other. Clarke posted a second day 67 Senior Open to move to eight-under and two shots clear of the field while Olazabal struggled in missing the cut on the Centenary Course at Gleneagles. This week’s event, like so many other tournaments in recent months, has again been dominated by the game’s best airing their views on the subject continuing ...

… The Old Course, St. Andrews Three-time Open Champion Tiger Woods has raised serious doubts if he will be fully fit to tee-up in this week’s 150th hosting of the Open Championship. Woods was joined by good friend Justin Thomas playing 17 holes of the famed Old Course earlier today, starting from the 2nd tee that is close to the practice range, and the range located at the New and Jubilee courses clubhouse that is used each year for the Dunhill Links Championship. Woods was walking very ...

… The Renaissance Club, East Lothian In an historic first in this 75th anniversary season of the DP World Tour, and England golfer Jordan Smith has won not one but two spanking new electric cars for an ace on day two of the Genesis Scottish Open. Smith, 29, aced the 203-yard, par-3 17th hole at the host Renaissance Club winning himself a Genesis Electrified GV70, a stylish and sophisticated luxury mid-size SUV. The Englishman’s tee shot, in the bright and very windy conditions, hit the ...