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Torrey Pines, California … Shane Lowry’s good news start to his new season continues with confirmation he will contest next fortnight’s AT & T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. The reigning Abu Dhabi HSBC champion will tee-up in the event starting February 7th and on the famed Pacific Ocean washed course that in June will also host the U.S. Open. It will be Lowry’s first full PGA Tour event since the bitter disappointment of losing his Tour after a pair of 69s to be cut from last August’s Wyndham ...

Torrey Pines, California …. Rory McIlroy clearly delighted a heavily pregnant woman with a bizarre autograph request moments after a very disappointing ‘no frills’ opening round and in his first appearance in the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines. McIlroy was level par coming down the last hole on the ‘harder’ South Course when he found a back bunker with his second shot at the par-5 18th. He then superbly splashed out to some four feet and then delighted packed ...

Torrey Pines, California … Tiger Woods admitted he got the new season ‘juices flowing’ from his very first tee shot in his very first event of 2019. Woods, and a former seven-time Farmers Insurance Open winner, split the fairway with a 288-yard drive ahead of producing a very respectable two-under par 70. The effort handed Woods a share of 53rd place and trailing eight strokes behind Spanish sensation Jon Rahm, who had the distinction of having his Spanish-based grandmother on hand ...

Torrey Pines, California …. Russell Knox brilliantly cut a mid-round swath through the field thanks to an eagle and six birdies in a score of 67 on day one of the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines. Knox, and contesting a third event of the new season, was two-over early in his round following bogeys at one and four before the top-ranked Scot landed a 3-wood to 10-feet at the par-5 fifth hole for his first eagle of 2019 and with the best of the half-a-dozen birdies from the sixth to the ...

Torrey Pines, California ….  New European Ryder Cup captain, Padraig Harrington and Sergio Garcia have never really enjoyed a ‘best mates’ relationship. Twice in their careers, Harrington denied the feisty Spaniard Majors glory, first in 2007 at Carnoustie and then a year later in the 2008 PGA Championship. Then as a reminder of their uneasiness Harrington​, and commentating at the 2017 Masters for SKY Sports,​was asked ahead of the final round about the heart wanting Garcia ...

Torrey Pines, California …. The former coach to Tiger Woods admits he will be keeping a keen eye from afar on Stephen Gallacher’s showing in this week’s 30th anniversary Dubai Desert Classic. The double Dubai winner is among six Scots, and including 1996 champion, Colin Montgomerie, teeing-up on the famed Emirates Course. Gallacher took the bold move prior to Christmas to travel from Scotland to Orlando and spent three days with renowend coach, Sean Foley. The Canadian-born Foley has worked ...

A week after Shane Lowry ended a five-year absence to win in Abu Dhabi and he’s looking to now achieve the same in this week’s 30th anniversary Dubai Desert Classic. Lowry had not teed-up in Abu Dhabi since 2014 and returned to brilliantly manage to hang on to become the first Irishman to win in the UAE capital. The Offlay golfer now tees-up in nearby Dubai also not having competed on the Emirates course in five years. “I haven’t played here in Dubai since 2014, and I’m actually ...