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Padraig Harrington’s likely USA Ryder Cup rival captain and Wisconsin-native Steve Stricker joked Padraig Harrington will be in for a tough time when he leads his European Team into competition later next year in the Badger State. Stricker is widely-tipped to be handed the USA Captaincy reins possibly later this month when the PGA Tour’s Honda Classic returns to PGA National and where the PGA of America’s HQ is located. Like Harrington, Stricker ticks all the USA captaincy boxes and more. The ...

Graeme McDowell is doubly excited to be returning to Pebble Beach twice this year. McDowell has shaken off a wrist injury that forced him out of last fortnight’s Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines to commence his new season further north on the spectacular Pacific Ocean Californian shoreline at Pebble Beach. It is just the third occasion McDowell has competed at Pebble Beach since brilliantly capturing the 2010 U.S. Open championship. He returned to the course in 2014 to finish T7th in the ...

Four-time Major winning Jordan Spieth reckons his game is heading in all the right directions ahead of teeing-up in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Spieth has not tasted victory since his sensational, and very dramatic, victory in the 2017 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale and the newly-engaged Texan would dearly love to get another win on the board each in this 2019 season. Indeed, Spieth has not had a top-10 finish since last year’s Open at Carnoustie ad with the former World No. currently ...

Pebble Beach, California ….. Among the biggest spectator followings in the lead-up to this week’s AT & T Pebble Beach Pro-Am has been Hu Sung Choi. Choi does not speak fluent English but it’s not his talking that has created most interest but more his theatre on the tee. The 45-year old South Korean enjoys a huge worldwide following for his ‘fisherman’s swing’ and to use a fishing term, Choi has reeled-in plenty more fans already this week including a former Pebble Beach champion. “It ...

Pebble Beach, California …. Top-ranked Scot Russell Knox declared ‘common sense’ has prevailed with the decision to lift the bizarre restrictions on caddies lining-up their players. After the fiasco of the past few weeks, the R & A and USGA jointly announced Rule 10.2b (4) has been ‘clarified’ after the scenario that saw China’s Haotong Li slapped with a two-stroke penalty at the Dubai Desert Classic and American Denny McCarthy also penalised at the Phoenix Open but then have the ...

Rory McIlroy again has insisted he is “positive” he will complete his career Grand Slam at the Masters ahead of ‘Take Five’ in that quest in April. Only five players have won all four of the modern Majors but then none of those four needed more than three attempts to win the final leg of the most exclusive club in the history of golf. McIlroy will return to Augusta National again looking to join Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Tiger Woods as the only players to have ...

Triple Major winning Brooks Koepka has pulled no punches in declaring Sergio Garcia acted ‘like a child’ following controversy at last week’s inaugural Saudi International where the Spaniard was disqualified from the event for damaging a number of greens. Garia later issued an apology and with the European Tour’s CEO, Keith Pelley accepting the apology. However, and much to the surprise of many observers, the 2017 Masters champion avoided a fine and also a suspension and this ...