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Robert MacIntyre’s title as the world’s highest ranked lefty is under threat from South African sensation Garrick Higgo. Higgo, 21, last Sunday strolled to an effortless three-shot victory in winning the Gran Canaria Lopesan Open with a 25-under par total. It had taken the Joburg-born Higgo just seven Tour starts last year for his breakthrough win at the Portugal Open and now in a further 17 events he’s won a second Tour title and the seventh of his pro career. And at this rate, and in ...

The Aussie duo of Marc Leishman and Cameron Smith captured the spirit of Anzac Day to triumph in the Zurich Classic in New Orleans. The duo bravely fought their way into a play-off to defeat the South Africans Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel on the TPC Louisiana course on a day – April 25th – that this year marked the 106th anniversary when members of the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) in 1915 landed on the ill-fated shores of Gallipoli in Turkey. Since then the 25th ...

Niall Kearney revealed he had to arrange for a suitcase full of additional clothing to be shipped to him for a three week European Tour competition stay on the Canary Islands. Kearney superbly made the most of his late entry into the Gran Canaria Lopesan Open posting a closing round 68 for a 14-under par tally on the Meloneras course. South-African lefty Garrick Higgo made it look easier winning a second European Tour title in 24 events thanks to a closing day 63 for his three shot success at 25-under ...

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 ...