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… Accordia Golf Narashino Country Club, Japan  Fifteen-time Major winning Tiger Woods sensationally roared into the lead remarkably turning around three opening bogeys to then complete his closing 14 holes in a remarkable nine-under par and snatch the lead with a 64 on day one of the inaugural ZoZo Championship in Japan. His score of 64 was Woods’ lowest round since a last day score of 64 to finish second to Brooks Koepka in the 2018 PGA Championship at Bellerive in Kentucky. Woods was ...

Portugal’s West Cliffs Golf Links has not only made a big splash in the golf world but it’s now making waves among some of the world’s greatest ever surfers to its ever-expanding global fan club. Surfing legends including 11-time world men’s champion Kelly Slater, Australian ace Stephanie Gilmore – who has won the ladies’ world title seven times – and former women’s world number one Lakey Peterson were among the stars that jumped at the chance to swap the beach for the fairways ...

… Accordia Golf Narashino Country Club, Japan  World No. 2 Rory McIlroy confirmed he will contest only one regular European Tour in 2020 ahead of the 149th Open Championship. That event will be the May 28th to 31st 2020 Dubai Duty Free Irish Open and more than likely to be held at Mt. Juliet. It means also, and for a second year running, McIlroy will skip the European Tour’s ‘Middle East Swing’ and travel to Hawaii in January for the 2020 PGA Tour’s winners-only Sentry ...

England amateur Josh Hill has created Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) history in becoming the youngest-ever to win an official OWGR event in capturing the Al Ain Open by Arena on the MENA Tour.  Hill is aged 15 years, 6 months and 27 days with his amazing victory on the Al Ain Golf and Equestrian course in the UAE. That is nearly two months younger than Japan’s Ryo Ishikawa was in setting the OWGR in 2007 when aged 15 years and two months in capturing the Japan Tour’s Munsingwear ...

… Accordia Golf Narashino Country Club, Japan  Forget Brooks Koepka or Rory McIlroy as it’s been Justin Thomas who has been one of the best-performed players in recent weeks on the PGA Tour. Thomas had slipped to 10th in the World Rankings mid-August at the Northern Trust but since then the now 26-year old has been one of the best performed on the Tour. Indeed, Thomas has won twice in capturing the BMW Championship and last week’s second victory at the CJ Cup in South Korea, and ...

… Accordia Golf Narashino Country Club, Japan  World No. 2 Rory McIlroy has removed any doubt in confirming he will represent Ireland in the 2020 Olympics. The news is a huge boost for the Ireland Olympic Team and comes after McIlroy had indicated earlier this year he would be ‘likely’ to play in the Japan Olympics after joining so many other leading golfers in boycotting the 2016 Rio Olympics for fear of catching the Zika virus. “I’m excited to play the Olympics and call myself ...

…. Accordia Golf Narashino CC,  Chiba,  Japan  Four-time Major winning Rory McIlroy admits he would be scared to even take regular pain-killers, such as the ultra-popular Advils in the wake of the recent suspension of fellow PGA Tour colleague, Matt Every. Every was suspended by the PGA Tour to early January 2020 after the Tour announced he had been in voilation of the Tour’s policy on drug abuse in taking a ‘banned’ substance and with the Florida golfer soon after revealing ...