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Dumbarnie Links has used the winter months to proudly put the finishing touches on Scotland’s newest golf course ready for re-opening today – St. Patrick’s Day. The Fife course had to put back it’s opening last year by two weeks unitil May 29th and the lifting of the golfing lockdown. And in the short time it was opened until a winter closure some 15,000 Scottish golfers teed-up on the already much-acclaimed Clive Clark designed course near Upper Largo. All were Fife golfers under the lockdown ...

It’s overall good news Masters-wise for top-ranked Scot Robert MacIntyre despite dropping two places on the World Rankings and with just 13 days (March 29th) to official confirmation of a maiden Augusta National invitaton. MacIntyre dropped two places to be now ranked No. 44 in the world after missing the halfway cut in last week’s PGA Tour flagship Players Championship and needing to be inside the top-50 on the last Monday this month to be afforded a maiden Masters invitation. The Oban ...

Top 64 players qualify for the World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play Final field to be set Friday, March 15, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. ET   Following the conclusion of THE PLAYERS Championship, the top 64 players in the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) have been locked in to qualify for the World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play, which returns to Austin Country Club, March 22-24, 2021. Five days remain for players to commit and the final field which will be set on Friday, ...

Shane Lowry’s eighth-place finish in the PGA Tour’s flagship Players Championship is an enormous boost for his Ryder Cup selection aspirations. Lowry’s effort at TPC Sawgrass was his first top-10 in eight events in the Tour’s wraparound 2020/21 season and also his best finish since a share of sixth last August in the WGC – FedEx St. Jude Invitational in Memphis. In his Ryder Cup selection goal picture, it has seen Lowry jump five spots on the European ‘World’ points table to 14th on ...

Scotland’s David Drysdale was pleased to end a ‘Shamal’ free windstorm final round at his Qatar Masters campaign with a one-under par 70 for a one-over par tally in Doha. The Borders ace has experienced the Arabian winds many times in teeing-up on the nearby Doha Golf Club course that hosted the event from 1998 to 2019 but Friday and Saturday’s 40-mph sandblast was among the toughest in 14 visits to Qatar. But unlike the often bitterly cold Scottish breeze, the ‘Shamal’ naturally produces ...

Shane Lowry was headed straight to Georgia for two days of practice at Augusta National buoyed a likely top-10 finish at the Players Championship in Florida. Lowry saved the best for the last day with five birdies in a four-under par 68 for a nine-under par showing on the TPC Sawgrass course at Ponte Vedra. The effort is Lowry’s highest finish in the Tour’s flagship event in seven appearances and a big confidence-builder with it also being Lowry’s best Tour finish since a T6 last August ...

Frenchman Antoine Rozner was again singing the praise of Irish-born caddy Darren Reynolds in capturing also a second European Tour title in six events with victory at the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters in Doha. Rozner became the first French player in the 23-year history to win in Qatar by sensationally holing a 60-foot birdie putt at the 72nd hole on the Education City course. The 28-year-old Parisien secured a first Tour victory last December at the inaugural Golf in Dubai Championship and in the ...