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The famed La Manga Clubit is leading Spanish golf courses in setting an example in the fight against the Coronavirus. The business, leisure and sports complex located in Cartagena, Murcia, has decided to donate essential products to three local charities with the aim of helping those who need it most during the COVID-19 crisis. Together we can all help beat COVID-19. Given the current global situation caused by COVID-19, La Manga Club has donated different types of food to three local charities to ...

The Open Championship remains on even slimmer tenterhooks with reports, and not official, the U.S. Open has become the third of the four men’s Majors’ to be postponed. The U.S. Open is set to be third of the four men’s Majors to be postponed given the New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo’s ‘executive order’ last week halting all non-essential businesses in response to the Coronavirus pandemic. New York has been one of the hardest hit of all American States by the Coronavirus and ...

The Ryder Cup Captaincy foursome of Padraig Harrington, Sam Torrance,  Paul McGinley and Thomas Bjorn have led the tributes at the passing of Irish golfing legend, John O’Leary. Leary, and aged 70, passed away earlier today (FRD) after a long illness though it is not believed to be Coronavirus-related. The Dubliner turned professional in 1970 and a year later, and in his first full season, he made the cut in The Open at Royal Birkdale. O’Leary won four times in his pro career including two victories ...

Shane Lowry admits he’s comfortable now waiting a further 12 months for his chance in capturing an Olympic Gold Medal in Japan. In the present climate of global uncertainty, the decision to postpone the hosting of the 32nd Summer Olympics to 2021 did not come as a surprise. And the reigning Open Champion is prepared also to accept the staging of the 149th Open Championship, and a week prior to the Men’s Olympic Games tournament, could also be postponed to perhaps later in the year. Though ...

Had this year been like any normal season, the cut-off date in qualifying for The Masters would be the last Monday in March. This year that date is March 30th and it should be the day Augusta National affords an invitation to the 2020 Masters for those players who, and not otherwise exempt, are inside the top-50 on the World Rankings. The cancellation and suspension of so many tournaments led to the Wentworth-based World Rankings body to suspend the Rankings on the Monday following the cancelled ...

We know the opening two of the four men’s 2020 Major Championships this year have been postponed. The staging of the US Open is seemingly somewhat in dissaray following the New York Governor’s ‘executive order’ that directly affects the construction of corporate and spectator facilities at Winged Foot and venue for the 18th to 21st June championship on New York’s Long Island. The R & A  has indicated it is ‘planning to go ahead as scheduled’ for the ...

Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell has now joined the likes of fellow European Team colleagues Paul Casey, Tommy Fleetwood and Scot Stephen Gallacher strongly suggesting it may be best to push back the hosting of the 43rd Ryder Cup a year to 2021. McDowell made his Ryder Cup debut in the 2008 haplessly led Nick Faldo side and is a veteran now of five Ryder Cup’s, and the last being in France as a vice-captain. And while striving to qualify automatically for Padraig Harrington’s team, ...