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Victorious 2014 European Ryder Cup captain, Paul Ginley has ruled-out any likelihood of being a vice-captain under Padraig Harrington for the 2020 Ryder Cup. McGinley and Harrington had attended the same Dublin school and played amateur golf together and against each other, so they were friends long before they emerged on the European Tour and when they did back in the last 80s the duo were virtually insperable. They brilliantly teamed in 1997 to deliver Ireland its first and still only victory ...

Shane Lowry’s start to a 20-month journey to the shoreline of Lake Michigan could not have been choreographed any brighter. At the commencement also to a 10th full season in the pro ranks Lowry became the first Irishman in the events 14-year history to lift the gleaming Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship Falcon trophy. Not only did Lowry first equal the course record, he set a new record for the number of ‘2s’ in four Tour rounds and also bravely burying any lingering 2016 US Open near-victory demons ...

Shane Lowry – With his 2019 Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship Victory  Captured a fourth European Tour win in his 214th appearance It is Lowry’s first win in his fifth appearance at this event and the first by an Irishman. His best previous finish was fourth in 2010. Moves to first in the 2019 Race to Dubai Rankings presented by Rolex with 1,165 points Could jump as high as 40th in the Official World Golf Ranking, up from 75th Will qualify (Top-50 World Rankings/Top 20 Race to Dubai) for ...

Through pure resilience and belief, Shane Lowry has won his first European Tour title in four years by lifting the HSBC Championship in Abu Dhabi. The Clara man entered the final day with a three-shot lead over Richard Sterne and birdied the first to get his final round off to the best possible start. But Sterne wasn’t for shifting with the plucky South African matching Lowry’s birdie before playing his front nine in five-under, six shots better than Lowry. Golf is a funny game however ...

New European Ryder Cup Captain, Padraig Harrington along with Michael D. Higgins, and the President of Ireland were among the first to congratulate Shane Lowry who ended a more than three-year victory drought to brilliantly capture the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Lowry led from start-to-finish to secure a fourth European Tour victory in birding the final hole in a closing round of 71 in windy conditions and win by a stroke at 18-under par from South African Richard Sterne (69). Lowry’s victory, ...

Shane Lowry’s return to the European Tour is headed for the spectacular reward of all four Majors this new year should he capture the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Lowry will take a three-shot lead into Saturday’s final round after producing a gutsy third day 67 to brilliantly move to 17-under par in the UAE capital. The Offlay golfer seized seven birdies, including three on the four par-3s, to remarkably be eight-under alone on the par-3s for the three days. Lowry has piled on 21 birdies over ...

Phil Mickelson flirted with a magical score of 59 before signing for an equal career low 60 as Ireland’s Seamus Power sadly again continued to struggle on day one of the PGA Tour’s Desert Classic at La Quinta, California. Mickelson needed to birdie the closing two holes on the 60th anniversary of the event at the La Quinta Country Club to join another of golf’s elite clubs but could only manage to birdie the 18th and in the process he also became the first player on the PGA Tour ...