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Russell Knox is quietly confident he’ll have the numbers to topple ‘superstar’ opponent Rory McIlroy and be elected the first non-American born Chairman of the PGA Tour’s ‘Players Advisory Committee’. Knox has thrown his cap into the ring along with McIlroy and American Kevin Streelman and with the vote among the Tour’s rank-and-file closing Thursday (11th February). The Players Advisory Committee (PAC) is the European Tour equivalent of the ‘Tournament Players Committee’ and answers ...

More encouraging news for those planning to cross the Irish Sea and see Shane Lowry defend his Open Championship title. The R & A has already announced the staging of the 149th Open Championship will go ahead with or without fans and in the latest news, R & A CEO Martin Slumbers has directly reached out to fans with further hope of getting back to hosting a ‘normal’ championship. “We are focused on staging the 149th Open at Royal St George’s from 11-18 July 2021 and on delivering ...

The game of golf is supposedly a game of skill where you tee-up and then try to take as least strokes as possible to find the bottom of hole. That’s the basic principle of the ancient club-and-ball game. At the highest form of the game, and that is on the major tour’s of the world, it is a game of millimetres where a missed putt can cost a golf a major championship trophy or a place in a Ryder Cup, Presidents Cup or Solheim Cup team. The professional player relies on the input of his or her caddy ...

Europe’s Ryder Cup captain is the latest to fail a COVID-19 test and being ruled out of this week’s PGA AT & T Pebble Beach Championship In California. Harrington had been competing in last week’s Phoenix Open but sat out the weekend rounds after missing the cut and in his first showing on the TPC Scottsdale course in five years. Then in travelling to the US West Coast for this week’s $7.3m PGA Tour event along the shores of the Pacific Ocean, the 49-year-old Irishman ...

Scotland’s Calum Hill has returned to the bitterly cold conditions of the snow-covered range at Gleneagles buoyed by his superb showing in the Saudi desert. Hill, 26, sensationally secured his best finish in just 27 Tour starts, eagling the final hole to grab a share of fourth place at the Saudi International. The Crook of Devon golfer was bumped out of third by American Tony Finau who birdied the last on the course laid out along the Red Sea. It had been a bizarre week for the young Scot with ...

Rolex is now the official partner of both European and US Based Ryder Cup matches. The PGA of America today announced an expansive agreement with Rolex, and replacing rivals Omega, as partner of the PGA of America and its three annual Major Championships: the PGA Championship, KPMG Women’s PGA Championship and KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship plus the Ryder Cup. You had the scenario for many years of Rolex acting as partner at European Ryder Cup matches but then when the Ryder Cup was staged ...

Weather: Sunny with a high of 73. Wind SW 4-8 mph.  Final-Round Leaderboard Pos. Name Score 1 Brooks Koepka 68-66-66-65—265 (-19) T2 Kyoung-Hoon Lee 66-66-66-68—266 (-18) T2 Xander Schauffele 66-64-65-71—266 (-18)   The eagle lands from 97 feet. 🦅@BKoepka‘s winning moment was a beauty. 😍 pic.twitter.com/4jRosLxCzR — PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) February 8, 2021 Things to Know Brooks Koepka picks up his eighth TOUR victory in his 145th start Koepka, ...