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Shinnecock Hills, NY …. Tiger Woods is avoiding any Long Island traffic snarls this week by jokingly referring to his home this week, and his £15m, 155-foot luxury yacht ‘Privacy’, as a dingy. Woods is not for a first time using his 15-cabin ocean-going vessel and manned by a crew of nine as his floating residence for this week’s U.S. Open. The boat is moored in nearby Sag Harbor and only a short distance from the host course at Shinnecock Hills on New York’s Long Island. “Sag Harbor ...

Shinnecock Hills, NY … Tiger Woods tees-up in a U.S. Open for a first time since 2015 admitting he’s missed playing in America’s national championship. Woods is a three-former U.S. Open winner having won the event in 2000, 2002 and 2008 while USGA organised events have been kind to Woods as far back as 1991 when he won the first of three US Junior Amateur titles. And in 1994 Woods then went onto the brilliant capture the first of three U.S Amateur titles. Woods this week is also ...

This week marks the 12th anniversary of Graeme McDowell’s resounding Father’s Day U.S. Open triumph at Pebble Beach. Since then McDowell has contesed every U.S. Opene including teeing-up at Congressional (2011), Olympic (2012) and where he was tied second, Merion (2013), Pinehurst (2014), Chambers Bay (2015), Oakmont (2017) and then a year ago at Erin Hills in rural Wisconsin. Suffice to say two of the past three U.S. Open courses, and without singling out the venues, have hardly been ...

If there is a U.S. Open venue Rory McIlroy loves more than Congressional it’s Shinnecock Hills. McIlroy has spent this past week playing a number of golfing gems in the Hampton’s region of Long Island in readiness for next Thursday’s start to the year’s second Major. Pick of the Hamptons courses is Shinnecock Hills but either side of this year’s U.S. Open venue is Sebonack and Southhampton Golf Club’s where McIlroy has been spotted. In fact, McIlroy first played Shinnecock Hills four ...

Connor Syme grabbed the best finish of his short pro career and has gone close to locking-up his Tour card for next year with a brilliant share of second in the Shot Clock Masters in Austria. Syme, 22 holed a monster 50-foot putt at his closing hole for a birdie ‘2’ in a round 69 for a 10-under par tally on the Diamond Country Club course near Vienna. It left him trailing six shots behind Finland’s Mikko Korhonen, who after a dozen visits to the Tour’s Q-School, claimed his maiden Tour title ...

Kinsale’s John Murphy brilliantly celebrated his 20th birthday calmly holing a 25-foot birdie putt at the Old Course first extra hole to capture the prestigious St. Andrews Links Trophy. Murphy posted a final 71 that included sensationally getting up-and-down from notorious 17th ‘Road Hole’ bunker in holing an eight-footer for par to remain tied with German Jannik De Bryn who had finished with a 68 for his nine-under par tally. Murphy then just missed his birdie putt on 18 in a round ...

Memphis, TN …. It seems getting engaged is catching on the PGA Tour with Rickie Fowler the latest set to tie the knot. Fowler and girlfriend, Allison Stokke were walking along the Atlantic Ocean shoreline, and no doubt close to his Jupiter abode in Florida, when the current World No. 7 turned around the brim of his his Puma golf cap, and got down on one knee to pop the question. And in a response that will disappoint many of Fowler’s female followers Stokke did not hesitate in saying ...