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Regnum Caya, Belek, Turkey … Padraig Harrington’s choice as the 2020 Ryder Cup Captain is now not as clear cut with possibly two others vying for the European Team captaincy. Harrington remains the clear favourite to be named early in December as the replacement to the triumphant Thomas Bjorn but Scotland’s Paul Lawrie is hinted to have thrown his name also into the Whistling Straits voting cap. As well, there is rumours Sweden’s Robert Karlsson has been asked to also put his arm up given ...

The European Tour has released the 2019 Race to Dubai schedule boasting 48 event in 31 countries and on five continents. Click on here for the schedule: http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/tournament/Season=2019/index_full.html The elevation of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship presented by EGA to a Rolex Series event and the continuation of the British Masters with Ryder Cup hero Tommy Fleetwood as host at Hillside Golf Club are two of the many highlights of the 2019 European Tour International ...

Rory McIlroy’s uneventful season continued with far too much Chinese sour than sweet after a horror four days at the WGC – HSBC Champions in Shanghai. For just a second time this season McIlroy failed to break 70 over four days in the event won by American Xander Schauffele. McIlroy posted round of 72, 77, 75 and 74 for a horror 10-over-par tally as the Northern Irishman struggled to get to grips with the tough Sheshan course conditions. One eagle, 13 birdies but also 11 bogeys, three double-bogeys ...

Ireland’s affable Seamus Power launced a back nine birdie blizt in posting a four under par 68 on day two of the Sanderson Farms Championship in Jackson, Mississippi. Power jumped 33 places and into a share of 15th place at five-under par in his second event of the new 2018/19 PGA Tour wraparound schedule. The West Waterford golfer had missed the cut in the Safeway Open and Power’s first event after securing the very last automatic place into the new PGA Tour season. But Power put that ...

Shane Lowry will be looking to move well into the elite Race to Dubai top-60 with a hopeful top-3 finish over what will be now the third and final round of the seriously rain-affected Andalucia Valderrama Masters. Tournament host and defending champ, Sergio Garcia stormed his way to four-shot 36-hole lead birding four of his closing five holes, and including his closing three, in a score of 64 to lead at 10-under par. England’s Ashley Chesters (71) is lying second at six-under par. Lowry returned ...

Marc Warren now needs a top-four finish in the severely rain-affected Andalucia Valderrama Masters to avoid losing his European Tour card. Warren heads into Sunday’s third and now final round having posted a pair of 69s to be sharing third place at four-under par on the famed former Ryder Cup host venue. Spain’s and defending champ, Sergio Garcia stormed his way to four-shot 36-hole lead birding four of his closing five holes, and including his closing three, in a score of 64 to lead at 10-under ...

Shane Lowry remained well in contention despite not playing a single shot on day two of the now seriously weather-affected Andalucia Valderrama Masters in Spain. Despite a four-hour delay to the start of day one, Lowry had managed to play 18 holes in the Euro 2m event in posting a two-under par 69 and trailing just three shots off the lead. Friday dawned under continuing gloomy skies and with play delayed this time by two-and-a-half hours. Padraig Harrington had managed to play just six first round ...