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Open champion Shane Lowry was at his political best in reserving strong criticism of the greens in posting a frustrating level par 72 on day one of the Turkish Airlines Open at Belek. There was a warm applause on the first tee with Lowry again being introduce at a European Tour event as ‘The Open Champion’ and Lowry responded sending a booming drive down the par-5 first hole. It led to Lowry walking off with a birdie ‘4’ but any joy was short-lived with the Irishman frustratingly posting ...

Padraig Harrington was at a loss to recall the last time he’d posted a double-figure tally on his scorecard in sending three shots into the drink and taking a ‘10’ on day one of the Turkish Airlines Open. Europe’s Ryder Cup captain put three balls into the water at the par-5 fourth hole of the Montgomerie Maxx course and while dropping to six-over through six holes Harrington bravely regroup to sign for a three-over par 75 but be sharing 71st place in the 75-player event. Harrington ...

… Belek, Turkey Top-ranked Scot Bob MacIntyre will get to boost his ‘Rookie of the Year’ claims alongside Masters champion, Patrick Reed for the opening two days of the Turkish Airlines Open at Belek. MacIntyre is currently lying ninth of the ‘Race to Dubai’ money list and four places clear of nearest rookie rival, Victor Perez of France and with Perez just one place clear of American Kurt Kitayama, a double winner this year and also in his rookie season. In past seasons, the ‘Rookie ...

…Belek, Turkey Shane Lowry is so excited at the prospect of marching out behind the 2020 Ireland Olympic flag he and wife, Wendy have already booked their flights to Japan. Unlike the Zika virus that robbed the 2016 Olympics of many of golf’s best, the Games of the XXX11 Olympiad will see the ancient game’s brightest stars competing over four days in Saitama to the north-west of Tokyo. Spearheading Ireland’s push for golfing gold will be Rory McIlroy and team-mate Lowry, and with each ...

… Belek, Turkey For Race to Dubai front-runner Bernd Wiesberger it could be likened to a World Havyweight title fight. There is just 12 rounds of competition remaining in 2019 before the Austrian hopefully delivers the knock out blow to be crowned European No. 1. Wiesberger, 34 tees-up in the first four rounds in that goal at this week’s Turkish Airlines Open here at the Montgomerie Maxx course in the Turkish golfing capital of Belek. The triple Tour winner this season leads Spaniard Jon ...

Richie Ramsay has defended Scotland having just two players inside the top-100 on the World Rankings. The two in question, Robert MacIntyre and Russell Knox, are currently ranked a respective 83rd and 96th while Ramsay himself is ranked the World 216th. The rankings are, of course, dominated by the US but then again there is two Canadians inside the leading 55, two Italian-born golfers inside the top-74, four South Koreans inside the top-80. It could easily be argued the Home of Golf nation should ...

… Belek, Turkey Rival Presidents Cup Captain Ernie Els says an in-form Tiger Woods has every right to appoint himself as a playing captain at next month’s biennial showdown in Melbourne, Australia. Woods is set to announce his four ‘captain’s’ picks at 7pm (Eastern Time US) on Thursday, 7th November while Els, the International Team captain, is scheduled to announce his four ‘captain’s’ picks later today (Wednesday) at 9pm (Eastern Time US) Woods is leading a USA Team for a first ...