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The Irish duo of Paul McGinley and Graeme McDowell have been drawn into the rules controversy that has erupted following an incident on the final green of last Sunday’s Omega Dubai Desert Classic. China’s and defending champion, Haotong Li was slapped with two-stroke penalty after it was deemed his caddy to have helped in lining-up his birdie putt. A European Tour rules official advised the actions were illegal and with the bogey that Li had to place on his card, and this after he had ...

A very special 96th birthday to golf’s oldest-living Major Champion – Jackie Burke Jnr and a person I had the great pleasure of meeting and sitting in his office at his beloved Champions GC in Houston, Texas in March of last year (2018). Burke Jnr was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1923. Thirty-three years later n 1956 he wrote his name into the golfing history books in capturing the 1956 Masters and also that same year, the PGA Championship at the Blue Hill CC in Canton, Massachusetts. In ...

Torrey Pines, California …. Justin Rose has dedicated a maiden Farmers Insurance Open victory to his long-time caddy, Mark ‘Fooch’ Fulchar. Rose, 38 captured the 24th victory of his pro career posting a final round 69 to win by two shots with a 21-under par tally on the South Course at Torrey Pines. The win also has seen Rose become the winningest Englishman in the modern era history of the PGA Tour after he and Nick Faldo were tied on nine wins apiece, and with Faldo last winning ...

Torrey Pines, California …. Rory McIlroy headed into a fortnight competition break with plenty of positives after contesting two new PGA Tour events for a very first time in his pro career. McIlroy added a share of fifth place in Sunday’s conclusion to his maiden appearance at the Farmers Insurance Open to a share of fourth in his debut showing earlier this month at the Sentry Tournament of Champions in Hawaii. “Of the eight rounds of golf I have now played this new year, I would say ...

Torrey Pines, California …. Justin Rose has surprassed Nick Faldo as the winningest Englishman in the PGA Tour modern era with a two-shot victory in the Farmers Insurane Open near San Diego. The World No. 1 ranked Rose birdied two of his closing four holes in a score of 69 to capture a 10th Tour title by two shots with a 21-under par total on the Torrey Pines course. And Rose captured also a 24th worldwide success remarkably with a new set of Honma clubs that the 38-year old virtually still ...

Torrey Pines, California ….. Tiger Woods will head to a fortnight break with a lot of positives after posting a closing round 67 at the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines, Woods, and as he had done a day earlier, finished birdie-birdie to end his first touranment of 2019 as promised in ‘double-digits’ at 10-under par. The 14-time Major winner was level par after a birdie and bogey over his outward nine but then stormed home over his inward half, and the actual front nine on ...

China’s Haotong Li fell foul of the new Rules of Golf and with his subsequent two-stroke penalty on the final hole in the last round of the Omega Dubai Desert Classic costing the China golfer a share of third place and some Euro 100,000 in prize-money. Li was preparing for his birdie putt on the 18th green at the Emirates Club when his caddie was seen standing behind him as he was taking his stance. The World No. 43 holed the putt, but European Tour officials decided that he had violated the ...