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European Ryder Cup captain Padraig Harrington has stolen a 12-month advantage over USA team rival Steve Stricker winning a Ryder Cup replica made of ‘Wisconsin Cheese’ in a bizarre ‘double or nothing’ axe throwing contest at Whistling Straits. Wisconsin-native Stricker first hosted Harrington to a 14-club challenge on the par-3 17th hole that is laid-out along the Lake Michigan shoreline. It was a final get-together for the 2020 team captains in a five-day ‘Year to Go’ celebration. The ...

Top-ranked Scot Russell Knox kick-started his new PGA Tour season with four birdies in a 68 on the opening day of the Shriners Hospital for Children Open in Las Vegas. Knox headed to a well-earned lunch trailing just three shots behind Canadian Nick Taylor who was in the clubhouse thanks to an eight-under par 63 while the American-born trio of Phil Mickelson, Brian Gay and Sam Ryder posted six-under par 65s on the TPC Summerlin course Knox produced a flawless opening 13 holes in holing a 21-footer ...

Four-time Major winning Brooks Koepka has responded to being snubbed by his fellow PGA Tour peers after rival Rory McIlroy was awarded the ‘2010 PGA Tour Player of the Year’ award. McIlroy’s choice for the award following the close of the 2018/19 PGA Tour season came as somewhat as a surprise but then the No. 1 vote for the Northern Irishman also reflected just how popular he is on the PGA Tour. This is stark contrast to the ‘stone cold’ demeanour Koepka exhibits whether ...

Top-ranked Scot Russell Knox competes this week in Las Vegas very much looking for a victory jackpot. Knox joins fellow Scot Martin Laird in the $7m Shriners Hospital for Children Open on the TPC Summerlin course just to the west of the gambling capital of the world. Knox has not pulled four winning aces or lined-up all the ‘7s’ on the PGA Tour since capturing the 2016 Travelers Championship in Connecticut. The Las Vegas event will be Knox’s first on the 2019/20 wraparound schedule ...

Australia’s Adam Scott this week makes his appearance in the Shriners Hospital for Children Open in Las Vegas, Nevade and where some 20-year years the now Masters champion was a student at the University of Las Vegas. Scott, and now aged 39, competed on the universities golf team from 1999 to 2000 before electing to turn professional late in June 2000 on the European Tour and this after having been competing early that same year on the European Tour. But then nothing quite prepared the young ...

EUROPEAN TOUR – 2019/2020 Race To Dubai Schedule November 2019 Date Tournament Venue 28 Nov – Dec 1 Hong Kong Open Hong Kong GC, Fanling, Hong Kong 28 Nov – Dec 1 Alfred Dunhill Championship Leopard Creek CC, Malelane, South Africa December 2019 Date Tournament Venue Dec 5 – 8 Afrasia Bank Mauritius Open Heritage GC, Heritage Bel Ombre, Mauritius Dec 19 – 22 Australian PGA Championship RACV Royal Pines Resort, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia January ...

Irish Open organisers have the assurance of Rory McIlroy teeing-up and now they have a prime 2020 date, so all that is needed is rubber stamping of a host venue. The European Tour has confirmed Ireland’s premier golf event will be held from May 28th to 31st next year. That’s two weeks after the PGA Championship and a week prior to the Jack Nicklaus-hosted Memorial on the PGA Tour. It’s around a month earlier than in recent years and will occupy a date previously taken by the BMW PGA Championship ...