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The opening salvo of the 2020 Ryder Cup between rival captains Padraig Harrington and Steve Stricker will take place next month at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. Harrington will partner fellow Irishman Shane Lowry while Stricker will have fellow Wisconsin-born Jerry Kelly for his partner in the event to be again staged on the alligator-infested TPC Louisiana course from April 25th to 28th. “Having both 2020 Ryder Cup captains playing our tournament indicates the importance they see in ...

With just over two weeks to the Masters and a new consciousness alert Rory McIlroy has gone from declaring ‘I need to win a Masters’ to ‘I would love to win the Masters’. McIlroy will head to Augusta National in what will be take ‘five’ in a goal to win the one Major he requires to gain membership in the elite of elitist golf clubs. He’s currently a 7/1 favourite to be fitted with an Augusta National members green jacket and on the eve of this week’s WGC – Dell Technologies Match-Play ...

Tiger Woods has won 107 tournaments around the globe but for a first time in his long and distinguished career he is staring at contesting seven matches over five days if he is to capture a fourth WGC – Dell Technologies Match-Play this week in Austin, Texas. Woods is a three-time winner of the event but his wins in 2003, 2004 and 2008 were under a format if you win, you advance and if you lost, you went home. “I hope to play well to get to the point where I make that point where I ...

Rory McIlroy has played down a possible last-16 Texas showdown with Tiger Woods should both players emerge from the round robin stages in today’s (WED) starting WGC – Dell Technologies Match-Play in Austin, Texas. McIlroy is first facing American Luke List in one of 32 opening matches in the Euro 9.05m event. The Ulsterman then on Thursday faces South African, Justin Harding who captured the Qatar Masters earlier on St. Patrick’s Day when McIlroy landed victory in the Players Championship. McIlroy, ...

It took Paul Casey nine years to capture a second PGA Tour title and now he has won a third 12 months on by becoming the first player to successfully defend the Valspar Championship at the Innisbrook Resort near Tampa, Florida. Casey, 41 went head-to-head with World No. 1 Dustin Johnson over the final posting a last day one-over 72 to win by a stroke with an eight-under par tally. ‘DJ’ was never a threat uncharacteristically failing to post one birdie in a three-over par 74 to end in ...

Padraig Harrington’s return from injury to competition was given a huge lift when he birdied his closing three holes for a second day running at the Maybank Championship in Kuala Lumpur. The effort, and in Harrington’s first event for some four months, handed the triple Major winner, a round of 69 for a five-under par total and a share of 30th place in the co-sanctioned event. Aussie Scott Hend made amends in losing out in a play-off at both the 2016 and 2017 Omega European Masters to capture ...

Affable Aussie Scott overcame a wasp sing, bird droppings and a final green storm delay to capture the Maybank Championship in remarkable play-off at the Saujana Resort in suburban Kuala Lumpur. For the 45-year old Hend it was also a European Tour third time lucky after losing out in both 2016 and 2017 in a play-off at the Omega European Masters in Switzerland. The victory is also Hend’s 14th professional success, a third on the European Tour, a 10th counting Asian Tour title and with all ...