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After what he described as the ‘gut wrenching’ decision to cancel last year’s Players Championship and PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan spoke of his excitement and pride in being back on the first tee this week for the return of the Tour’s flagship event. As Monahan pointed out, it’s been 362-days since Friday, 13th March, 2020 – Golf’s Black Friday as it’s been referred – when Monahan hosted a press conference to advise of a three-week shutdown of golf’s biggest stage. Little ...

“Trust me, it won’t happen!”  With Rory McIlroy ruling out rumours the European Tour will not be staging three events next month in Florida McIlroy was speaking ahead of this week’s ‘second’ defence of his Players Championship crown at TPC Sawgrass after the Tour went into lockdown a year ago and just a few hours post the close of the opening round of their flagship event at Ponte Vedra in Florida. It has been suggested in a London newspaper that three European ...

Bizarrely for someone who spends some 30 weeks a year directly reporting on golf, this week marks 12 months since I’ve spoken in person, face-to-face to any Tour player either side of  ‘The Pond’. The day was Friday the 13th of March, 2020 and now known as tournament golf’s ‘Black Friday’. The last player I spoke face-to-face was Henrik Stenson and he was behind a shopping trolley following Mrs. Stenson around the Whole Foods store at Ponte Vedra, Florida. The store ...

Rory McIlroy’s disappointing Arnold Palmer Invitational showing will seen him likely drop outside of the top-10 on the world rankings for a first occasion in three years since winning Arnie’s event in 2018. For McIlroy the story of the last day was two balls into the water after just six holes and not even King Neptune could salvage McIlroy’s Bay Hill fortunes. McIlroy did well in walking off with only a double-bogey ‘7’  on route to an eventual round of 76 for a three-under par ...

Bryson DeChambeau has captured a maiden Arnold Palmer Invitational title and an eighth PGA Tour success revealing he was inspired in receiving a text message before tee-off from Tiger Woods. DeChambeau, 27, holed a testing four-footer for par at the final hole in a round of 71 to win by a shot at 11-under par from England’s Lee Westwood. The reigning European No. 1 ranked Westwood could stand enormously tall in handling everything DeChambeau threw at the 47-year old over the closing 18 holes. Westwood ...

The Scottish trio of Robert MacIntyre, Martin Laird and Russell Knox will be seeking less difficult scoring conditions heading into this week’s PGA Tour flagship Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass at Tour HQ in Ponte Vedre All three Scots came unstuck over the weekend rounds with MacIntyre eventually posting scores of 71, 71, 76 and a gutsy last day level par 72 to be just outside the top-40 finish at two-over par. MacIntrye’s opening two rounds was pretty respectable at the Tour’s hardest ...

There was drama aplenty early on day three of the Arnold Palmer Invitational. First there was defending champion, Tyrrell Hatton posting a sizzling 66 to move into the early clubhouse lead in a round that included six birdies and a 16th hole eagle ‘3’. Three-time Major winning Jordan Spieth, and slowly returning to the form that won him the 2017 Open Championship, had birdied the first and then sensationally aced the second. Spieth’s long-time caddy, Michael Greller was seemingly ...