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Adam Scott admitted he gave very serious thought as to whether he would leave the four-month security and comfort living with his family back in Australia before making the decision to return to the U.S., and compete in this week’s PGA Championship in San Francisco. And while issues relating to the worldwide Coronavirus have taken a very sharp turn for the worst in the Australian State of Victoria, Scott sympathises with the likes of Irishman Padraig Harrington and the England duo of Lee Westwood ...

“I like Shane.  He’s a funny guy. He’s a character.” The reigning Open Champion Shane Lowry could not have been afforded a better compliment than that by one of his playing partners for the opening two rounds of the 102nd PGA Championship. The compliments being afforded Lowry were by four-time major winning Brooks Koepka and with the American, along with reigning US Open winning, Gary Woodland playing partners for Thursday and Friday over the TPC Harding Park course. Lowry has come to know ...

Dates: August 3-9, 2020 Where: San Francisco, California Course: TPC Harding Park (35-35—70/7,251) Field size: 156 Defending champion: Brooks Koepka Purse: $11,000,000 ($1,980,000/winner) FedExCup: 600 points (winner) Format: 72-hole stroke play Things to Know The 2020 PGA Championship is the first major championship of the year following schedule changes due to COVID-19 Brooks Koepka seeks third consecutive PGA Championship title; in the last 100 years, only two players have won the ...

Tiger Woods is very keen to celebrate a 21st PGA Championship appearance with a 16th major championship triumph. Woods is returning to competition for only a fourth occasion this year and just a second time since the lifting of the lockdown in mid-June. While much of the weeks field had not set foot on the host TPC Harding Park course, Wood still has strong memories in being a member of the victorious 2009 USA Presidents Cup side that won by five points over the visiting International Team. And Woods ...

It’s been nearly 400 days since the golf’s last major championship but never in recent years has there been so many withdrawals in competing at the pinnacle of the game. A total of 14 players have withdrawn from Thursday’s start at the TPC Harding Park course in San Francisco in the first men’s major championship since Shane Lowry left Royal Portrush carrying the claret jug. Many of those have cited COVID-19 safety concerns, including five former Major winners, in not wishing to tee-up ...

Next time you walk into your local Scottish golf club and order a pint it may not be a Tennents, a Belhaven Best, a St. Andrews Ale, a Sheepshaggers Gold or if you’re in Robert MacIntyre’s home town of Oban, a Kilt Lifter IPA that you’ll find on tap. No, the countless visiting Americans heading to Scotland each year to play some of the world’s best golf courses are going to feel right at home with Budweiser to be the preferred pint in Scotland’s some 550 golf clubs. This ...

When you talk about Irish golfing gems there is all the well-known courses such as the European Club, Old Head, Ballybunnion, Ardglass, Donegal, Portmarnock, Portstewart, Royal Portrush, Ballyliffin, Castlerock, Royal County Down and so many. There’s those undiscovered Irish courses that shine just as bright and gems you really should make the effort to appreciate yourself. It’s why a few years ago I returned to Ireland and to a region I had visited on few occasions in reporting on golf ...