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Australia’s Adam Scott is celebrating Christmas a few days early after sensationally capturing a second Australian PGA Championship on the Royal Pines course on Queenland’s Gold Coast Scott, 39 came from two shots back of the lead mid-round to stamp his enormous class comfortably winning by two shots after posting a final round 69 for a 13-under par tally. The effort was good enough to edge out New Zealand’s Michael Hendry who, in overcoming a rib injury, had taken the lead over ...

Adam Scott is just one round shy of capturing a second Australian PGA Championship after posting a third round 69 to move a shot clear of the field at 10-under par on the Royal Pines course on Queensland’s Gold Coast. The World No. 15, and the highest-ranked player in the co-sanctioned field, birdied two of his closing three holes to break free on a day when five players had shared the lead at one stage in the event. Scott, 39 won the title for a first occasion in 2013 and a victory would be ...

Open Champion Shane Lowry has been enticed to cut short his Christmas/New Year break to tee-up early next month in the rescheduled Hong Kong Open. Lowry was due to commence his 2020 season in the Middle East with the January 16th starting defence of his Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship title in the UAE. Instead, Lowry is cutting short his off-season break and will now tee-up a week earlier in the Hong Kong Open at suburban Fanling. The 2019 Hong Kong had been due to be staged earlier this month but due ...

The Adelaide-born pair of Adam Scott and Wade Ormsby have much more in common than sharing the lead midway through the second round of the Australian PGA Championship being staged on the RACV Royal Pines Resort course on the Gold Coast. Scott and Ormsby are tied at 7-under par with Scott backing-up his opening score of 70 with a 5-under par 67 on Friday’s ‘Yellow Day’ and with Ormsby adding a 69 to his Thursday 68 in the group immediately behind. Their fathers, Phil Scott and Peter ...

Adam Scott brilliantly rebounded from an unlucky 13th hole double-bogey in eagling the par-5 15th hole in a round of 70 on day one of the co-sanctioned Australian PGA Championship at Royal Pines on Queensland’s Gold Coast. The former Masters champion, and highest world-ranked played in the field, ended the first day of the last event of the year sharing 15th place and trailing just three shots behind the leading fellow Australian duo of Lucas Herbert and Brett Rankin who share the lead on five-under. Scott, ...

Rookie Scot Calum Hill tees-up on Australia’s Gold Coast for this week’s co-sanctioned Australian PGA Championship already focussing on a gleaming silver end to his rookie season. Just weeks after management stablemate and good friend, Robert MacIntyre captured the European Tour ‘Rookie of the Year’ trophy and Hill admits he would dearly love to add his name to the gleaming silver trophy. Hill, 25 is competing in far off Australia for a first time in his career after brilliantly finishing ...

European Ryder Cup Captain Padraig Harrington heads the field set to tee-up in next month’s 31st staging of the Omega Dubai Desert Classic at Emirates Golf Club. Joining the triple Major winning Irishman will be victorious 2018 European Ryder Cup captain, Thomas Bjorn and brilliant winner of the 2001 event when he denied then World No. 1 Tiger Woods as well as Harrington who shared second place and two shots behind the Dane. Defending champion, Bryson DeChambeau is returning along with former ...