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Rory McIlroy has a simple, straightforward plan to eradicate tour tortoises. The four-time Major winner has called on golf’s leading tours for slow players to receive a solitary warning before receiving shot penalties. The issue of slow play came to the fore again during the final round of the Open Championship at Royal Portrush, where World No. 1 Brooks Koepka tapped his wrist in the direction of officials to signal his displeasure with the time taken by playing partner JB Holmes. Holmes had ...

It has been two weeks of celebration for golf’s newest Major Champion – Shane Lowry. Lowry has been the toast of Ireland after his stunning six-shot triumph at Royal Portrush and now in returning to competition at this week’s Northern Trust, he’s the toast of the broader golf world. Indeed, Lowry hosted his first formal golf media news conference today in the Media Centre at the Liberty National Golf Club and host venue for this week’s $US 9.25m event, and the opening ...

Fellow Open Champion Rory McIlroy played nine holes on Tuesday on this week’s Northern Trust host course with Shane Lowry and took the opportunity to offer advise to golf’s newest Major winner. Lowry arrived into New York earlier this week and unlike past visits, including three years ago when he got married and with just a photographer present, he was mobbed as he and wife, Wendy made their way to the top of the Empire State Building. The fact Lowry was carrying the most recognised trophy ...

Tiger Woods has likened radical changes to the three-event FedEx Cup Play-Off Series starting this week in New Jersey to Paul Lawrie coming from 10 shots back to capture the 1999 Open Championship. Woods is returning to competition for a first occasion since missing the halfway cut at the Open Championship at Royal Portrush. He is joining 122 of the PGA Tour’s leading 125 money-earners this season in the Northern Trust being staged on the Liberty National course overlooking the Statue of Liberty. The ...

Seamus Power has singled out former teenage amateur partner and now Open Champion, Shane Lowry for special praise following Lowry’s sensational triumph at Royal Portrush. The duo were once team-mates in the Ireland amateur ranks and with Lowry emerging to become Ireland’s sixth Major Championship winner. “It was just unbelievable for Shane to win and I just wish I had of been there at Royal Portrush,” Power said. “I was competing myself at the time so I was trying to ...

New Open Champion Shane Lowry and his young family have arrived in New Jersey for this week’s Northern Trust. The $US  9.25m event is the opening tournament of the three-event FedEx Cup Play-Off Series and with Lowry making his debut in the Series. It’s also a case of ‘back to work’ for the Royal Portrush victory hero and after a fortnight’s celebrating in capturing the Claret Jug. Indeed, the Claret Jug has hardly been out of Lowry’s hands since his stunning six-shot triumph. Though ...

Crail Golfing Society hero George Burns not only brilliantly captured a first Scottish Amateur Championship but he delivered Crail the Scottish Amateur crown remarkably on a first hosting in the near 100-year history of the event. It is also the first occasion in 31-years a ‘home’ club player has captured Scotland’s premier men’s amateur crown while Anstruther-born George Murray, and a former European Tour member, was a member of Crail in winning the event in 2004. Burns, 22 won at the 19th ...