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Paramus, New Jersey … For a second time this season European No. 1 Tommy Fleetwood finds himself grouped with former long-time World No.  1 Tiger Woods. The duo, and along with Aussie Marc Leishman, have been grouped together for the opening two rounds of Thursday’s starting Northern Trust Open and the first of the four FedEx Cup Play-Off Series events being staged on the Ridgewood Country Club course in Paramus, New Jersey. Strangely, it is the second time this year the trio find themselves ...

Panamus, New Jersey … A gleaming new BMW 530i black sedan and his own parking place was awaiting Seamus Power upon arrival at this week’s Northern Trust Open in New Jersey. The BMW is among a fleet of 120 courtesy cars that will be parked at the Ridgewood Country Club course with five players, including Rory McIlroy and Rickie Fowler, who had qualified for the top-125 on the Tour money-list electing not to tee-up for this week’s opening event of the lucrative FedEx Cup Play-Off series. The ...

Ireland’s Seamus Power has brilliantly retained full playing rights by securing the 125th and last automatic place onto the 2018/19 PGA Tour season. Power entered today’s concluding Wyndham Championship lying 123rd on the FedEx Cup points table but after missing the halfway cut at Greensboro the West Waterford player looking for all intention purposes missing in projected to drop to 126th on the money list. But if there is anyone Power can thank then that is 2017 Masters champion, Sergio ...

Those Ryder Cup hecklers heading to Versailles intending to upset Tiger Woods beware. The warning comes after Woods’ caddy, Joe LaCava revealed an incident earlier this month during the final round of the WGC – Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio. Woods was on the 14th hole on the Firestone course and competing in an event he’s won eight times in the past when an alcohol- fuelled heckler began irritating LaCava. And as LaCava pointed out in speaking last week on an ESPN radio ...

The uncertainty that faced three of Ireland’s top golfers has materialised with Shane Lowry, Padraig Harrington and Seamus Power to automatically forfeit 2018/19 Tour status after missing the cut in this week’s regular season-ending Wyndham Championship in North Carolina. The trio posted respective 36-hole tallies of two-under (Lowry), two-over (Harrington) and three-over par (Power) on the Sedgefield Country Club course in Greensboro. Lowry’s three-year exemption in capturing the 2015 ...

Rory McIlroy, and as he hinted last Sunday in St. Louis, has elected to remain in Florida and not contest this week’s Northern Trust tournament in New Jersey. It will be the first time in four years McIlroy has not contested the opening event of the FedEx Cup Play-Off Series. The decision comes after his bitterly disappointing distant share of 50th place in the PGA Championship and with his poor Bellerive showing seeing him drop two places on the World Rankings to No. 7 and also slip to 21st on ...

It is just over a month to the start of the 2018 Ryder Cup and it’s little wonder Jim Furyk can think of nothing else. The USA Captain has managed to temporarily put that aside in posting rounds of 65 and 68 at this week’s Wyndham Championship and the final event of the regular PGA Tour year ahead of the start next week of the four Play-Off Series events. Furyk’s efforts of a seven-under par tally is his best opening 36-holes in just the 15 events the 48-year has contested this ...