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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 ...

George Burns will be looking for plenty of Crail Golfing Society support as he now looks to follow in the footsteps former good friend Bob MacIntyre and capture the Scottish Amateur Championship at golf’s seventh oldest club Burns, 22 brilliantly fought back from being 2-down after 10 holes to win 1up on the final hole over Cupar Golf Club’s Markus Rickard and earn a place in the semi-finals on the acclaimed Gil Hanse-designed Craighead Links course. Burns and MacIntyre were members of the ...

  Callum Macaulay’s return to the amateur ranks could be spectacularly rewarded at Crail Golfing Society with a second Scottish Amateur Championship title in 11-years. Macaulay, 35 brilliantly burst into the last-16 of the Scotland’s premier men’s amateur event thanks to a ‘professional-like’ 4 & 3 win over Royal Aberdeen’s Craig Leith on the Craighead Links course. Helping steer Macaulay to hopeful success was the sight of having his father, Harry back on the bag as he had been ...

George Burns kept the Crail Golfing Society flag flying high with an impressive 7 & 6 demolition of Ballumble Castle’s Dan Lawrence and win through to the last-16 in the Scottish Men’s Amateur Championship. Burns played the least number of holes among the 64 players that teed-up for the first of the match-play stage of the championship after having won his Thursday morning match 6 & 5 over Bonnybridge’s Gary Wright. It means the 22-year old Burns, and a very proud Crail member, played ...

In my early days starting out reporting on the European Tour there was one golfer who stood out as one of the characters of the game – Gordon Brand Jnr. It was only last fortnight ‘Brandy’, as he most-affectionately known, and myself were again taking the mickey out of each other at the Open Championship at Royal Portrush. It is why it has come as a huge shock to learn ‘Brandy’ has passed away and just 19 days shy of his 61st birthday. The Scottish-born golfer was due ...