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Rory McIlroy has advised organisers he intends returning to the Valero Texas Open for a first time in seven years. The event is again being staged on the Greg Norman designed TPC San Antonio course and with McIlroy choosing to tee-up in the Alamo City in the week before the Master. McIlroy elected to contest the 2013 hosting of the event at a very late hour having played poorly a week earlier at the Shell Houston Open. The decision seven years ago to head to the city founded in 1718 proved hugely ...

Sixteen-time Tour Graeme McDowell shares the view of golfs’s two ruling bodies in declaring unrelenting distance gains is lessening overall enjoyment of golf. Some two decades after warning that further significant distance increases would “have the impact of seriously reducing the challenge of the game,” the USGA and R&A finally appear poised to tackle one of the ancient club-and-ball game’s biggest issues. In collecting data from industry experts, tours and stakeholders, golf’s ...

MENA Tour by Arena debutant David Langley took a one-shot lead into the final round of the $75,000 Journey to Jordan #1, the opening event of the 2020 season, with a battling four-under par 68 at Ayla Golf Club on Tuesday. The 25-year-old from Marlow, England, who turned pro late last year, made six birdies against two bogeys to add to his overnight one-under par 71 and move to five-under 139 for the tournament. Shergo Al Kurdi, Jordan’s 16-year-old amateur, missed a chance to open a big lead on ...

Jedda, Saudi Arabia …… Speculation the Saudi Government is behind a breakaway Premier Golf League (PGL) has now led to confirmation the mega-rich Arab nation’s ambition to seek a second European Tour event, a first PGA Tour and also the maiden hosting Asian Tour event plus the staging of the World Cup of Golf. The day after Graeme McDowell holed the winning putt to capture the second Saudi International and the Saudi Golf Federation played host to the Golf Saudi Summit. The summit ...

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia … Newly-crowned Saudi International and former Scottish Open champ Graeme McDowell confirmed he’s likely to contest this year’s Aberdeen Standard Investments Scottish Open despite not a fan of The Renaissance course. McDowell’s stature as a true global superstar was enhanced in ending a near six-year European Tour victory drought in winning by two shots along the stunning Red Sea shoreline. The victory was the 16th of McDowell’s career and remarkably a 12th in ...

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia … Graeme McDowell celebrated his Saudi International victory in impressive manner as ‘guest-of-honour’ of the Saudi Government. McDowell’s stature as a true global superstar was enhanced in ending a near six-year victory drought in winning the Saudi International by two shots along the stunning Red Sea shoreline and then dining in the grandiose host Royal Greens Club clubhouse. The win was the 16th of McDowell’s career and remarkably a 12th in a dozen different ...

It somewhat comes as no surprise Greg Norman is backing plans for a breakaway Premier Golf League. Rewind to late 1994 and Norman attends the Media Centre at the Australian Open at the Royal Sydney Club in Sydney. The golfer known as the ‘Great White Shark’ has rocked the golfing establishment to its collective foundations with talk of a 10-event World Championship Series. Tim Finchem is at the helm of the PGA Tour and he and Norman never really saw eye-to-eye so it seemed relatively easy for ...