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Padraig Harrington has arrived in Kuala Lumpur and this week’s Maybank Championship quietly confident his injured wrist has fully healed ahead of teeing-up on the Saujana CC course. This week is ‘take two’ in Harrington’s attempt to kick-start his 2019 season after injuring his wrist on December 19th after slipping on the staircase of his Dublin residence.  It wasn’t till he underwent an x-ray that he broken a bone in his wrist. The injury was no more evident when Harrington ...

No sooner had Rory McIlroy been handed the ‘new’ Players Championship golden trophy and he had brushed Dustin Johnson aside to become favourite to capture next month’s Masters. Irish-based PaddyPower.com has installed the new World No. 4 as a 7/1 favourite to capture a fifth Major and with victory at Augusta National seeing McIlroy become just the sixth player in history of the game to win the Grand Slam. ‘DJ’ is second favourite at 10/1 while Justin Rose is 12/1 In ...

Russell Knox has singled out new Aussie new coach, Bradley Hughes for praise after the Scot made it 10 cuts from as many events following last week’s ultra-lucrative Players Championship in Florida. Knox has been golf’s ‘Mr. Consistency’ not having missed a halfway cut since last October’s Tour event in Shanghai. Just once before in a now 175-event PGA Tour career has Knox produced a better run of consistency and that was 12 weekend cuts in succession from finishing T2nd at the ...

It clearly was a day for champagne showers and maybe making a splash diving into the water surrounding the18th green at TPC Sawgrass. Not for new Players Championship champion, Rory McIlroy. Of course, McIlroy was thrilled to become a Players champion in brilliantly lighting-up the course on a dull and overcast day to end a year-long winless drought by posting a final round 70 to win by a shot with a 16-under par tally. The new World No. 4 had captured a 15th PGA Tour title and a 24th pro ...

The long, and sometimes agonising wait is over with Rory McIlroy sensationally celebrating St. Patrick’s Day and silencing his critics with victory at the Players Championship. McIlroy emerged a deserved winner posting very much an emotional roller-coaster 14 holes before birding both the 15th and 16th and go on to claim a one-shot success with a 70 for a one shot 16-under par triumph McIlroy denied last year’s Versailles losing US Ryder Cup captain, Jim Furyk who stormed home under overcast ...

Rookie Robert MacIntyre is heading home to Scotland on high after ending what has been an 11-event, eight-nation journey with a course record 63 on the final day of the Magical Kenyan Open. The Scottish lefty leap-fr0gged 40 places on the final day and into an eventual share of 17th place thanks to an 11th hole eagle and six birdies, including three in succession from the second hole on the Karen GC  course in Nairobi. MacIntyre has been travelling the main Tour for a first time in his career ...

Rory McIlroy is going need the luck of the Irish if he is to not only over-come Tommy Fleetwood for a second day running but he’s also got to silence the threat of  Jon Rahm if he’s to capture the Players Championship on St. Patrick’s Day at TPC Sawgrass. Rahm stormed his way to the top of the third-round leader board posting a 2019 tournament best of an eight-under par 64 to finish at 15-under par. The 2018 Irish Open winner was two-under for his outward half but ignited the fireworks ...