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Martin Kaymer shares much with Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy. For starters, the three are multiple major champions sharing nine major titles amongst them and with Kaymer a PGA Championship and US Open winner. Until recently the trio had struggled to regain winning form with Spieth ending a near four-year winless drought early last month in capturing the Valero Texas Open while it was last Sunday when McIlroy ended his own winless run of 18 months in capturing a third Wells Fargo Championship. Kaymer ...

Martin Slumbers, the Chief Executive of The R&A, has issued the following message to fans. “As we look forward with increasing optimism, and continuing caution, to an exciting summer of sport in the UK, I would like to update you on our planning for The 149th Open at Royal St George’s from 11-18 July 2021. “The situation with the Covid-19 pandemic continues to improve in the UK and the rapid roll-out of the vaccine programme gives us growing confidence that we will be able to welcome ...

Paul McGinley believes Rory McIlroy’s Wells Fargo Championship will ‘inspire’ him to return to major championship winning glory. McIlroy brilliantly ended the second-longest winless streak of his 13-year pro career albeit anxiously posting a closing hole bogey to capture a third Wells Fargo Championship at a now beloved Quail Hollow course in Charlotte, North Carolina. Waiting for the now 19-time PGA Tour McIlroy, and for a first time at an event, was wife, Erica and daughter, Poppy ...

    Weather: Partly Cloudy. High of 81. Wind SSW 12-15 mph with gusts of 30 mph. Final-Round Leaderboard Rory McIlroy                      72-66-68-68—274 (-10) Abraham Ancer                  69-70-70-66—275 (-9) Viktor Hovland                  69-72-68-67—276 (-8) Keith Mitchell                    67-71-66-72—276 (-8) Gary Woodland                 67-69-70-71—277 (-7) Things to Know Rory ...

Rory McIlroy declared his third Wells Fargo Championship triumph to be a ‘huge boost’ heading into next week’s PGA Championship at Kiawah Island. McIlroy, and with his wife and eight-month old daughter watching on, ended an 18-month winless drought at his much-loved Quail Hollow course in suburban Charlotte. McIlroy had broken through to win on the PGA Tour in 2010 at Quail Hollow and he won again in 2015 but there was something very special about Sunday’s victory despite ...

Rory McIlroy revealed a neck injury almost forced him out of the Wells Fargo Championship before finally ending an 18-month winless drought but only after superbly avoiding near disaster on the final hole of the Wells Fargo Championship in North Carolina. McIlroy, and no thanks to an errant driver that included landing within a lateral water hazard off the tee on 18 and forced into taking a penalty drop, closed with a final round 68 to win by a shot with a 10-under par at Quail Hollow. Texas-based ...

South African sensation Garrick Higgo has joined Tiger Woods in the records books with victory at the Canary Islands Championship. Higgo, 21, posted an ace and seven birdies in a closing 64 to win by six shots with a 27-under par victory tally on the spectacular clifftop Costa Adeje course at Tenerife. The Joburg-born Higgo’s winning total was just two shots shy of matching fellow South African who owns the Tour 72-low of 29-under set at the 2003 Johnnie Walker Classic in Perth, Australia. It had ...