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Carlos Ortiz’s approach shot from 167 yards on his final hole Thursday at HSBC LIV Golf Hong Kong was headed directly toward the flag. Despite the long odds of holing out, for a brief moment, shooting 59 was a possibility. The ball finished inside 2 feet, leaving Ortiz with a tap-in birdie for a 10-under 60 and a two-shot lead over Dean Burmester after Thursday’s opening round at Hong Kong Golf Club. The Mexican’s round included an eagle and nine birdies with just the one bogey on ...

“It feels a miracle to be able to walk”  declared Andrea Pavan after being released from hospital after sustaining multiple injuries, including a fractured vertebrae, in freak lift shaft fall on the eve of last week’s Investec South African Open in Stellenbosch. The 36-year-old Italan golfer fell three floors after stepping through open lift doors into an empty shaft while staying in a private hotel. Sponsored stories This Game is So Beautiful. If You ...

For champion golfer Shane Lowry it was very much akin to another day in the office. Lowry was fourth out at an early 7.30am tee-off local time in Wednesday’s Arnold Palmer Pro-Am captaining his side of amateur partners Chiro Aikat, Abhivav Arnand and Daryl Risinger each members at the Arnold Palmer Bay Hill Lodge and Club and all four residing the Orlando area. Also joining the group was Lowry’s father Brendan, who this journalist and then working for the R & A media team had arranged ...

Rory McIlroy was always going to asked his views over a conflict that’s come to light between LIV Golf’s top star Jon Rahm and the DP World Tour over Rahm’s refusal to meet event mandates, coupled with the threat of denying the champion Spaniard European Ryder Cup eligibility. Rahm’s dispute with the DP World Tour has escalated after the Spaniard accused the ­organisation of “­extorting” golfers over fines for competing on the LIV circuit. Rahm’s Ryder Cup future remains ...

Despite being in the news for his displeasure with the DP World Tour, Spanish superstar golfer Jon Rahm is to be congratulated in coming to the rescue of eight fellow LIV Golf players stranded in the Middle East due to the Iran war have safely arrived in Hong Kong ahead of LIV’s third event of 2026. LIV Golf confirmed that all eight players, Lee Westwood, Laurie Canter, Sam Horsfield, Adrian Meronk, Thomas Detry, Caleb Surratt, Tom McKibbin and Anirban Lahiri, arrived in Hong Kong on Wednesday ...

Members of Luke Donald’s two winning European Ryder Cup teams are naturally delighted Donald has chosen to remain on board to captain the 2027 European Ryder Cup side. Rory McIlroy headed the good news declaring Donald’s Adare Manor appointment to be ” a huge advantage for European Team to have that continuity back in the team” McIlroy, and a member of eight European Teams, added ahead of this week’s Arnold Palmer Invigtational:  “I was sort of talking about that ...

Luke Donald has been named as the European Captain for the 2027 Ryder Cup at Adare Manor in Limerick, Ireland. The biennial contest will celebrate its 100th anniversary next year and Donald will have the chance to mark the occasion with his own piece of history as he attempts to become the first Captain to lead a Ryder Cup team to three consecutive victories. The 48 year old Englishman previously captained Team Europe to a 16½ – 11½ victory against the United States at Marco Simone, Rome ...