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‘Iceman’ Calum Hill brilliantly buried last week’s demons not only to capture a maiden Tour win but also help grab a rare Scottish golfing Tour double with victory at the Cazoo Classic. Hill, 26, held his nerve to win by a shot with a closing 67 for a 16-under par tally on the London Club in Kent. Alex Levy posted a sizzling 64 to finish runner-up at 15-under par but having had to wait five-holes before Hill calmly pared the last to decide the Frenchman’s fate. Hill joins good friend ...

Grant Forrest will return to competition next week determined to cement his place into next year’s 150th anniversary Open Championship. The recent Hero Open winner is continuing to savour his breakthrouh Tour success when he birdied the closing two holes at the Fairmont Resort at St. Andrews. The win lifted Forrest to 35th on the Race to Dubai rankings and while assured of qualifying among the top-60 and the season-ending DP World Tour Championship, it’s next year’s Open he’s also focussed. It ...

On any of the prior Saturday’s Seamus Power has competed at the Wyndham Championship the Irishman would have good cause to be really disappointed. Saying that, walking off with a third round two-over par 72 on this, his fifth visit to Sedgefield Country Club, was not part of the script for the reigning Barbasol Championship champion. It was a second highest round in 16 loops of the Greensboro layout and two fewer than a 74 in missing the third round cut in his 2017 debut in the event while Power ...

Scotland’s David Drysdale and his wife/caddy, Vicky will be no doubt be hoping they have a special ‘guest’ in the back seat when the duo head north following the close of this week’s Cazoo Classic at the London Club. ‘Double D’ superbly muscled his way into a share of sixth place on the back of bogey-free 67 for a nine-under par tally on day three of the inaugural event in Kent. The superb effort on golf’s traditional ‘moving day’ sees Drysdale ...

In-form Calum Hill remains in sight of not only a maiden Tour win but a unique slice of Scottish history heading to the final round of the Cazoo Classic at the London Club in Kent. Hill, 26 posted a bogey-free two-under 70 to be sharing second place and tied at 11-under par with England’s Jordan Smith Dane Rasmus Hojgaard set a new course record 62 to move three clear of the field as 14-under par as the 20-year-old seeks a third Tour triumph. Hill’s ‘moving day’ was a frustrating affair failing ...

A month ago, Rory Sabbatini was lamenting a four missed cut in succession to be languishing outside the leading 125 on the PGA Tour money list. That all changed 12 days ago when the 45-year-old now Slovakian citizen posted a sizzling final round 61 to sensationally secure the silver medal at the Japan Olympics. Now Sabbatini has continued his Olympic Games form grabbing six birdies, and in also headwave conditions as experienced in Japan, in a round of a six-under par 64 to be sharing the lead at ...

Scotland’s Russell Knox has produced his lowest score since his first round last September of the 2020/21 season with a sizzling 63 on day two of the Wyndham Championship in North Carolina Knox sensationally holed his 118-yard second shot for an eagle ‘2’ at the 13th and had six birdies in his seven-under par effort to move to three-uder par in heatwave conditions of the Sedgefield County Club course. And fellow Scot Bob MacIntye birdied three of his closing five holes in a round of 68 ...