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Graeme McDowell singled out playing partner Shane Lowry for praise after the Irish duo superbly dovetailed on the opening day of the Arnold Palmer Invitational in suburban Orlando. McDowell capped his round in holing a 16-footer for eagle on 16 in a round of a four-under par 68 while Lowry, and with three birdies in a row near the turn, signed for a 70. McDowell headed to the clubhouse in third place and three shots behind Spain’s Rafa Cabrera-Bello who carded a five-under 67 in the Euro 8.47m ...

Richie Ramsay kept the Scottish ‘feel good’ factor alive in Qatar with a 68 to be one shot off the lead heading to day two of the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters in Doha. Ramsay got his round off to a flyer in the windy conditions by eagling the first and the birding the second and while the triple Tour winner bogeyed his third he sprinted to the top with birdies at his seventh, ninth and 10th holes. It was a case of batten down the Qatar hatches for the next four holes with Ramsay taking pars ...

South African MG Keyser was jetting-off first class after his four shot victory at the Dubai Open presented by Turkish Airlines. Keyser stuck to a simple final round game plan after his MENA Tour record low of a 61 a day earlier on the Dubai Hills course. And he almost did that but for a solitary dropped shot on the 13th hole. However, five birdies ensured a card of four-under par 68 for the Dubai resident, taking his total to 19-under par 197, four better than second-placed Matthew Baldwin ...

Paul Lawrie arrived in Doha looking to carve out another slice of golfing history and become the first to deposit three Commercial Bank Qatar Masters victories. Lawrie followed fellow Scot Andy Coltart in 1999 in capturing the second Qatar title before the Aberdonian used the victory in July that year to lift the Claret Jug at Carnoustie. Then in 2012, Lawrie became the first of now three players to win the Qatar Masters title for a second occasion. He said: “Both wins were different. “In 1999, ...

Defending Arnold Palmer champion Rory McIlroy bizarrely likened his quest to win golf’s coveted Grand Slam to Abraham Lincoln’s goal to become the 16th President of the United States. The current World No. 6 ranked McIlroy will return to Augusta National in some five weeks looking at ‘Take 5’ to the Masters and join Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Tiger Woods in golf’s most exclusive club. McIlroy was asked on the eve of his Bay Hill defence whether he’s come to ...

South African MG Keyser has created MENA Tour is signing for a 61 and the lowest score ever in the eight-year history of the Tour. Keyser was seven-under par for his last seven holes after a brief hail-storm delay and in muscling his way to a two-shot lead going into the final day of the Troon Series – Dubai Open presented by Turkish Airlines following a record-breaking round of 11-under par 61 round. The big-hitting Keyser is no stranger to low scores and probably did not take kindly to his ...

As Darren Clarke finally looks to be finding his feet on the Champions Tour his signature Scotland golf course design project still awaits the first sod being turned. Clarke had been commissioned in 2010 to design a course near Wellbank located to the north of Dundee and around a 15-minute drive from Carnoustie The course is to be the jewel in a £70m, 5-star development project known at The Angus. But nine years on local businessman, Mike Forbes, and according to the Dundee Courier, has struggled ...