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TPC Boston, MA … Rory McIlroy returns to competition this week buoyed by thoughts of a third Boston victory party and eager to help steer Europe to success later next month in Versailles. McIlroy emerged onto the TPC Boston practice range just after 3pm local time Tuesday in sweltering sauna-like conditions ahead of Friday’s start to the Euro 7.7m final Dell Technologies Championship just to south of Boston. McIlroy tees-up, and after skipping last week’s Northern Trust, having dropped ...

TPC Boston, MA …. Double Major winning Zach Johnson has described as a ‘coincidence’ a tweet that may suggest he will be travelling with the USA Team to next month’s Ryder Cup. Johnson, and a veteran of five Ryder Cups, tweeted a picture Tuesday of the bag handed to him as a gift by one of his sponsors. In the bag was a white 2018 USA Team Ryder Cup cap. The picture of the cap in Johnson’s bag immediately had Twitter followers, including rival European Team captain, Thomas Bjorn, ...

TPC Boston …. Was it Zach Johnson’s honest mistake to tweet a photograph showing a small portion of a 2018 USA Ryder Cup cap in a bag of goodies he received in joining other PGA in a Net Jets corporate outing on New York’s Long Island. The double Major winner had played in four Ryder Cup’s before being a member of a first victorious team in 2016 at Hazeltine. There is three ways to look the image Johnson posted on Twitter. Firstly, and more than likely, Johnson will be taking ...

TPC Boston, MA .... There would seem to be two Spainish-born golfers heading to the Ryder Cup later next month and one of those will not be Masters Champion, Sergio Garcia. Jon Rahm earned his place in a maiden Ryder Cup by automatically qualifying for Thomas Bjorn’s European Team. Two others, Rafa Cabrera-Bello and Garcia, are figthing to win Bjorn’s approval when the Dane confirms the eventual 12-man make-up of his team in annoucning his four ‘wildcard’ picks at 2pm (BST) ...

Paramus, NJ .. New Northern Trust winner Bryson DeChambeau declared he is now on a ‘double mission’ after his impressive four-shot success in New Jersey. DeChambeau, 24 was never headed capturing a second PGA Tour victory this year and the third of his short pro career courtesy of a two-under par 69 for an 18-under par total on the Ridgewood County Club course. The American headed into the last round of the opening event of the FedEx Cup ‘Play-Off Series’ enjoying a four-stroke lead and stretched ...

Seamus Power’s competitive nature came to the fore when expressing his disappointment in not heading north to this week’s Dell Technologies Championship near Boston. Instead, and after a few weeks off, he will return home to Ireland for a friend’s wedding delighted to have ended a first PGA Tour ‘Play-Off Series’ event with a rousing round of 67 at the Northern Trust in New Jersey. Power jumped 25 places to just outside the leading 30 in a bogey—free final day effort of four ...

Paramus, New Jersey … It has been officially some nine months since Tiger Woods officially worked with a coach. In this time he’s been able to show to the golf world he not has the game to win what would be an 80th PGA Tour title but also capture a 15th Major as we saw last fortnight in St. Louis. The now 42-year old had just posted a Northern Trust closing round 70 for a then share of 34th place at four-under par. A check of his overall Ridgewood Country Club statistics reveal the following: Fairways ...