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European Ryder Cup captain Padraig Harrington sounded a warning to any potential 2020 European Ryder Cup hopeful and that is if you are seeking a Whilstling Straits ‘wildcard’ pick then you better tee-up in the 2020 BMW PGA Championship. This September’s BMW PGA Championship is the start of the 2019 Ryder Cup qualifying process and the 2020 staging of the event is closing qualifying event to make the European Team “Nobody has an excuse not to turn up,” said Harrington ...

Tiger Woods has always been good when it comes to the one sentence responses when it comes to someting controversial. We saw that today when the 15-time Major winner visited the media centre ahead of this week’s PGA Championship at Bethpage Park. Woods was asked his thoughts on fellow PGA winner John Daly being given approval to ride on a motorised buggy at this week’s event. The 53-year old Daly, and winner of the 1991 PGA Championship was last week granted exemption to used a motorised ...

It’s official!  Rory McIlroy will travel to Japan next year to represent Ireland in the 2020 Olympic Games. After all the uncertainly with many of the world’s leading golfers ahead of the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil, along with fears of the Azika virus, there will be no such indecison this time around. Indeed, it seems the world’s top-ranked golfers will be climbing over each other to get to Tokyo. “It would be a great experience. We’re going to play the Open and then ...

Knock knock.  Who’s there? Robert MacIntyre joint runner-up in the Betfred British Masters. The Oban lefty, and thanks to a game of ‘Knock, Knock’ before he went to bed, has brilliantly taken a huge step in wrapping-up next season’s Tour card with a gusty share of second in the British Masters. MacIntyre, 22 muscled with way into a four-way share of the lead finishing eagle, birdie in a round of 68 before having the chance at a play-off snatched from him by the similar aged Swede Marcus ...

Marcus ‘Cool Hand; Kinhult holed the most important putt of his pro career in birdiing the 72nd hole to break a four-way log-jam atop of the board and capture the Betfred British Masters at Hillside. Kinhult, 22  held off challenges from defending champion Eddie Pepperell, four-time winner Matt Wallace and Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre to win his first European Tour title in his 52nd Tour event. In fact, the Swede birdied the final two holes after dropping two strokes on the previous two ...

Hillside … European Tour rookie Robert MacIntyre found an ideal way to tune-in to again playing links golf with a practice round last Sunday at the famed Southerness Golf Club in Scotland. MacIntyre produced a Betfred British Masters second round 68 to move to five-under par and highlighting his day’s work with an eagle ‘3’ at his 11th hole of this week’s host Hillside course. And after missing the cut in last week’s Volvo China Open and getting back home on Saturday, MacIntyre ...

Hillside … A clealy revitalised Michael Hoey made it seven new season cuts in succession with a five-under par tally heading to the weekend rounds of the storm-affected British Masters at Hillside. An electrical storm late morning lashed the course just after Hoey had bogeyed his 16th, forcing a 75-minute delay and with the Belfast golfer emerging from a short ‘snooze’ to par his 17th and hole a birdie on 18 in a round of 71. Hoey, 40 left the course just inside the top-20 and seven shots ...