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Embattled Matt Kuchar has finally shown some common decency and agreeing to pay his Mayakoba Golf Classic winning caddy the reported $50,000 fee he has been seeking following the American’s success late last year. In a statement released by Kuchar mid-afternoon Friday at the Genesis Open, Kuchar apologised for being out of touch and insensitive, and making a bad situation worse. All credit to leading US golf journalist, Michael Bamberger who reached out to caddy David Ortiz that will now see ...

Scottish golf is on a real high with Euan Walker becoming the sixth Scot in the past nine years to capture the prestigious African Amateur Championship with his success at Leopard Creek. Walker, 23 stormed his way in the heatwave conditions to win by three shots and with the Kilmarnock (Barassie) golfer’s win coming just four days after Aberdonian David Law brilliantly eagled the last to win a maiden European Tour victory in Australia. Scottish amateurs have now won six of the last nine African ...

Graeme McDowell may have forfeited full PGA Tour membership but his standing in the game speaks volumes with the Ulsterman now headlining alongside fellow Major Champions Jordan Spieth, Jim Furyk, Jason Dufner and Jimmy Walker in April’s Valero Texas Open in San Antonio. McDowell returned to competition at last week’s AT & T Pebble Beach Pro-Am on an invitation but had to sit out the Farmers Insurance Open a fortnight earlier, and also having been afforded an invitation, after bruising ...

Embattled Spaniard Sergio Garcia has now apologized to the players in his group but is yet to face three-time Major-winning Brooks Koepka after damaging six greens on day three of the recent Saudi International. The 2017 Masters winner has previously apologised via a statement and on social media and now while in the locker room of the Riviera Country Club locker-room and host course venue for this week’s Genesis Open. “I’m sure I’m going to hear it throughout the year,” ...

Pacific Palisades, California … Rory McIlroy finds himself for a tenth time in his career playing alongside Tiger Woods and also for a second year running at the Genesis Open. The last occasion the Nike-sponsored duo were each other’s company inside the ropes was last August at the season-ending Tour Championship where McIlroy was a Sunday spectator in posting a disappointing final Atlanta round of 74 to finish in a share of seventh and six shots behind as Woods brilliantly and emotionally ...

Pacific Palisades, California ….   Rory McIlroy’s latest consciousness read has the four-time Major winner playing both the part of biblical legends Goliath and also David in the countdown to this year’s Masters. McIlroy has become a real bookworm having read a number of similar theme books of late and with his current choice the England-born, Canadian national and now US-based Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘David and Goliath’. Gladwell brings a modern interpretation to the ‘good ...

Bryson DeChambeau admitted he is still ‘adapting’ to having the flagstick in while he putts and this after his seemingly being totally comfortable with this important rule change. Indeed, DeChambeau travelled to the Middle East for a first time in his career winning the 60th anniversary Omega Dubai Desert Classic and then competing in Saudi Arabia. And in both European Tour events there was plenty of talk of the American putting with the flagstick unattended. “I haven’t had ...