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St. Louis, Missouri …. Justin Rose’s lucky number is 99. He has the number 99 stamped on his golf balls while his twitter account features the number 99. The current World No. 3 tees-up this week at Bellerive hoping his No. 99 TaylorMade golf ball will lead to glory in the 100th staging of the PGA Championship. And ahead of teeing-up in what will be his 14th PGA Championship, Rose explained the significance of the number 99. “My wife’s lucky number was always 9,” said ...

St. Louis, Missouri …. Shane Lowry heads into a seventh PGA Championship with his yonger brother, Alan on the bag to do battle this week at Bellerive. Lowry and long-time caddy, Dermot Byrne parted with a handshake following the opening round of last month’s Open Championship and with Lowry’s coach, Neil Manchip on the bag only for Lowry to miss the Carnoustie cut. Alan Lowry has filled in the void caddying for the current World No. 88 and helping big brother to a T12th in the Canadian ...

St. Louis, Missouri ….. The European Tour has apologised to World No. 11 and England’s Tommy Fleetwood after a ‘clerical error’ led to Carnoustie prize cheque for £110,000 deposited into the account of a former club professional and now caddy by the same name but living in the U.S. The World No. 11 ranked golfer Fleetwood earned the amount in sharing 12th place at the 147th Open Championship but for some bizarre reason the sum turned-up in the account of 58-year old now ...

St. Louis, Missouri …. As one of the favourites for this week’s PGA Championship, Southport’s Tommy Fleetwood doesn’t have a great record in the Majors. In fact, Fleetwood’s played a dozen majors since making his debut in the 2014 Open Championship and missed the cut in half including two of his three PGA Championship appearances. But you look at Fleetwood’s peformances on the European and PGA Tour’s and that speaks another sory. The current European No. ...

St. Louis, Missouri … Padraig Harrington’s ‘fear of God’ demeanour over the final few holes in capturing the 2008 PGA Championship has been replaced 10-years on with a fear of simply getting off to a good start at Bellerive. Harrington captured a third Major Championship and a second in two weeks by again denying Spain’s Sergio Garcia along with American Ben Curtis to win the 90th PGA Championship at Oakland Hills in suburban Detroit. The proud Dubliner rebounded from opening ...

St. Louis, Missouri …. Paul Dunne has ruled out any thought of contesting the end-of-season Web.com final series and the likelihood of earning his PGA Tour card. Dunne tees-up tomorrow (THUS) is his first PGA Championship but struggling to find the form that earned him victory in last year’s British Masters and a share of success earlier this year in the Golf Sixes. As well, there’s back-to-back top-10s earlier this year on the PGA Tour and with his PGA Tour earnings this year a few thousand ...

St. Louis, Missouri … What is the odds of Zach Johnson finding himself grouped with Zach Johnson on any of the two weekend rounds in this week’s 100th PGA Championship. Let me explain as it’s quite simple. There is two Zach Johnson’s competing this week at Bellerive in suburban St. Louis. One is the 42-year old double Major winning Johnson born in Iowa City, Iowa and now residing at St. Simons Island in Georgia. The other is the 35-year old born in Salt Lake City, Utah who found his ...