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The staging of this week’s 2020 WGC – FedEx St. Jude Invitational rekindles memoris of my first visit to Memphis in attending the 1997 FedEx St. Jude Classic. Greg Norman was also making a first appearance in the event in 12-years and I headed to Tennessee to report on the tournament for Australian Associated Press. Norman was also the reigning Australian Open champion having captured a fifth Stonehaven Trophy some seven months earlier.  He then won the Andersen Consulting World Championship ...

Robert MacIntyre has emerged for a fortnight ‘hiding’ in L.A. feeling fitter and looking slimmer to tackle this week’s lucrative and a maiden Stateside showing at the WGC – FedEx St. Jude Invitational in Memphis. It will be a week short of five months since Scotland’s top-ranked golfer last competed in finishing well down in the Qatar Masters in Doha. And now he’s set to make a long overdue maiden pro career appearance on U.S soil having spent the earlier lockdown period in Oban staying ...

Lough Erne Resort reopened on 17th July 2020 for a first time since the COVID-19 related lockdown. While the worldwide pandemic continues unchecked in so many countries around the globe, golf resorts such as Lough Erne are back up-and-running with safety still clearly at the forefront of their operations. However at Lough Erne, and where the health and safety of both their future guests and the resorts team members has always been a top priority, the message for those planning to visit the resort ...

Padraig Harrington has again chosen not to tee-up in a PGA Tour event by withdrawing from Thursday’s starting Barracuda Championship in California. The local Reno Gazette Journal ran a story on Saturday highlighting Harrington would be joining fellow PGA Championship winners Martin Kaymer and Shaun Micheel in the modified Stableford event being played this year for a first time on the Tahoe Mt. Club ‘Old Greenwood’ course at Truckee within the state of California though just 30 south-west ...

Scotland is to lose one of the biggest purse events on the European Tour with the Tour to confirm October’s hosting of the pro-amateur event will be rescheduled to 2021. Double Major winning Sandy Lyle was first to hint last month the event may not go ahead given many of the amateurs teeing-up over the three host courses travel from the U.S. The European Tour has removed the event from its 2020 Race to Dubai schedule and now Johann Rupert, Chairman of Swiss luxury goods firm Compagnie Financiere ...

Robert MacIntyre has Tiger Woods to thank for a shot at this week’s WGC – FedEx St. Jude Invitational $1.745m (£stg 1,578,160) first prize cheque in Memphis, Tennessee. MacIntyre and Irish-born caddy Greg Milne have been self-isolating in the Los Angeles region for the past fortnight ahead of this week’s first ultra-lucrative WGC event since the June 11th Stateside return to competition. Scotland’s top-ranked MacIntyre was first reserve when the elite 78-player field was announced late ...

Lee Westwood has questioned the United States overall handling of the Coronavirus in declaring he has no intention to travel Stateside for this week’s WGC – St. Jude Invitational and the following week’s PGA Championship. Westwood’s name appears on the entry list for Thursday’s starting $10.5m event on the TPC Southwind course in Memphis while the current World No. 34 has also qualified for the following week’s PGA Championship in San Francisco. Both events will also be spectator-free ...