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Saudi Arabia ..   There’s very much more to Phil Mickelson accepting an ultra-lucrative appearance fee to tee-up at this week’s Saudi International playing golf. And there’s more to the fact the five-time Major Champion contested Wednesday’s Pro-Am in the company of a pair of heavy-weight money brokers and the CEO of Saudi Arabia golf. Mickelson was firstly all buddy, buddy on the first tee with current World No. 1 Brooks Koepka who was to be teeing-up also from the first but in the group ...

Saudi Arabia … A big contingent of nine Scots will tee-up along the Red Sea shoreline including Drumoig’s Connor Syme looking to make it four four-rounders in succession this year after regaining full Tour membership last November. Syme, 24 turned pro after the 2017 Walker Cup signing with Niall Horan’s Modest Golf Management. He made his pro debut at the Portugal Masters in finishing a superb T12th. He then secured his full Tour card for the 2018 season but struggled with just one ...

Saudi Arabia ... Cormac Sharvin has won praise from not one but two Major Champions – Shane Lowry and Martin Kaymer. There was plenty of banter on the 10th tee when Sharvin, who is a good friend of Lowry, joined the Open Champion along with the double Major-winning German for a nine-hole practice round ahead of the start to the second edition of the  Saudi International in Saudi Arabia. Sharvin, 27 gained full Tour membership off last year’s secondary Challenge Tour and it teeing-up this ...

Saudia Arabia ..  Sergio Garcia, and like the one of many standout lines from The Shawshank Redemption, admitting he’s a changed man in returning to Saudi Arabi. Twelve months ago, the former Masters champ was thrown out of the inaugural $3.5m event Saudi International for wilfully damaging the Royal Greens Club putting greens. The Spaniard was disqualified under Rule 1.2a after he was found to have damaged at least five putting surfaces during Saturday’s third round on a one-over par 71. And ...

Saudia Arabia … You receive an email from the head of the company you work and what’s the first thing you’d do? Naturally, you’d open the email for fear, and in a worse-case scenario, you’ve lost your job. Take some of the top-ranked Americans plying their trade on the PGA Tour and when asked ahead of this week’s Saudi International if they’ve read an email send to them by PGA Tour Commissioner, Jay Monahan. With the golf world is abuzz with talk of the ...

Saudi Arabia …  Open champ Shane Lowry is so confident of qualifying for the 2020 Irish Olympic team he’s already booked his flights to Tokyo. Lowry’s looks a dead set to join Rory McIlroy behind the Irish flag for the Open Ceremony on 24th August and the start of the 32rd Olympiad. The now 32-year old will be making his Olympic debut having declined to tee-up four years in Rio De Janeiro but with fears for regarding the Zika virus. And now after capturing golf’s oldest Major Lowry ...

Funny how the world golf wheel turns. It’s nearly 30-years since World No. 1 Greg Norman rocked the golfing world by announcing a proposal to create an 8-event championship tour of the world’s top golfers. In fact, it was the eve of the 1994 Australian Open at Royal Sydney with Norman revealing a vision to establish an elite golfing series that would provide an alternative to the PGA and European Tours. Norman’s dream of a World Golf Tour (WGT) was ground-breaking and very forward thinking ...