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2019 PGA Championship, Bethpage Park ‘Black Course’ Things to know Bethpage State Park to host the PGA Championship for the first time (two U.S. Opens, two THE NORTHERN TRUSTs) Tiger Woods (2002 U.S. Open), Lucas Glover (2009 U.S. Open) and Patrick Reed (2016 THE NORTHERN TRUST) have won events at Bethpage and are in the field The PGA Championship is Tiger Woods’ first opportunity to tie Sam Snead’s record for 82 PGA Tour wins Brooks Koepka aims to become first to successfully ...

Fellow PGA winner, John Daly insists if Tiger Woods was in full possession of the facts he would sympathise with Daly’s knee issue. Daly, 53 is suffering with arthritis in his right knee, and as he is allowed he applied to use a motorised cart through the Americans with Disabilities Act and claimed diabetes also contributed to his special request. The PGA of America considered the request and agreed to allow Daly the use of a cart, and as he has been doing on the PGA Champions Tour. Woods was ...

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 ...