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Rory McIlroy will return to World No. 1 should he capture this week’s Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines. It’s been well over four-years since McIlroy was last atop of the rankings and that was in teeing-up in his defence of the 2015 PGA Championship at Whistling Straits and where a 17th place result dropped him to World No. 2. In the intervening period we’ve seen Jason Day, Jordan Spieth, Dustin Johnson, Justin Thomas, Justin Rose and Brooks Koepka rule the golf world. Koepka, ...

Dubai, UAE ... Struggling Robert MacIntyre remains ‘optimistic, and without any confirmed injury, he’ll be fit to tee-up in Thursday’s starting Omega Dubai Desert Classic. Scotland’s top-ranked was forced to withdraw from last week’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship with pain in his lower righthand. The ultra-talented Oban lefty underwent an MRI last week in Dubai, and a second MRI in four months, with again the result showing nothing untoward with his hand. The 23-year old has his right wrist ...

Dubai, UAE …. Graeme McDowell joked there’s no chance of him becoming a Chief Referee on the European Tour despite earning a distinction in passing a Tour ‘Rules Test’. The European Tour emailed a quiz to all Tour members inviting them to test their Rules of Golf knowledge and with McDowell among nine to excel in the test Others to pass the exam include Spain’s Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano, Soren ‘600 Tour Events’ Kjeldsen, Tournament Players Committee Chairman David Howell and ...

Dubai, UAE ….  Some will say that before you first win a Major you have to lose one. Tommy Fleetwood has been runner-up in the 2018 US Open and also was second in last year’s 148th Open Championship at Royal Portrush but not for a moment did the Englishman ‘lose’ either major. Indeed, his final round 63 in the 2018 US Open at Shinnecock Hills tied the single round lowest score in history of that Major. Since turning professional in 2010, Fleetwood has received three invitations ...

Dubai, UAE ... It’s taken double Major-winning Martin Kaymer just one event of the New Year to again realise the enormous worth of Scottish-born caddy Craig ‘Weeman’ Connelly. The on-again, off-again player/caddy relationship is back on again and with Kaymer posting a final round 65 to share eighth place in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Kaymer had Connelly on the bag when the German won in Abu Dhabi in 2010 and was by his side when Kaymer dramatically captured the 2010 PGA Championship and ...

Dubai, UAE …. Padraig Harrington predicts the goal of Europe retaining the Ryder Cup could be that much tougher should Tiger Woods qualify automatically or be picked to compete at Whistling Straits. This is the view of Europe’s Ryder Cup Captain after sitting through four days TV coverage of last month’s dramatic Presidents Cup showdown at Royal Melbourne in Australia. Woods’s USA Team went into the decisive Sunday Singles having been behind in four earlier sessions over the prior three ...

Who’d ever thought arch-rivals Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson would one day end-up becoming neighbours. They have been competing to beat each other since the early 1990s and between the duo they’ve won 20 Major Championship and 126 PGA Tour victories. We saw last November their rivalry first-hand with a ‘Tiger-v-Phil’ showdown in Las Vegas was essential viewing for golf fans around the globe. But neighbours?  Surely not! Well it seems on December 23rd the Michelson’s ...