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American golfing heartthrob Rickie Fowler will return to the scene of his 2015 victory when he tees it up in the Aberdeen Standard Investments Scottish Open, a Rolex Series event, at Gullane Golf Club on July 12-15, 2018. Fowler captured a maiden European Tour win with scores of 66, 68, 66 and a closing 68 the last time Gullane hosted the event, birdieing the 18th hole on Sunday to deny compatriot Matt Kuchar, who is also part of the world class field gathering on Scotland’s Golf Coast this ...

The US state of Minnesota , and known as the Land of 10,000 lakes, is about to be granted a first PGA Tour event in some 60-years. Good friend and colleague, Will Gray of the Golf Channel, reports Minnesota has hosted numerous marquee tournaments, including the 2009 PGA Championship and 2016 Ryder Cup but with the TPC Twin Cities course in line for an upgrade beginning in 2019 that could lead the way to a Tour stop. There is strong suggestions the 3M Championship is poised for an upgrade, which ...

Memphis, TN ….. There is pretty much one main reason why tourists from around the globe flock to Memphis, Tennessee. Top of the sight-seeing priorities is Graceland and the former home and also now the resting place of Elvis Presley. You can also visit the Birthplace of Rock & Roll museum, Sun Studio, lively Beale Street, get a close-uip look of the mighty Mississippi River and there’s a very moving vist to the Lorraine Motel, and now the U.S. Civil Rights Museum, and where 50-years ...

Memphis, TN …. Padraig Harrington has flown some 6.500klm from London to Memphis and host city for this week’s FedEx St. Jude Classic to find he’s spending two days on course alongside fellow Irishman and very good friend Shane Lowry. Harrington touched down Tuesday in the ‘Land of the Delta Blues’ and after having just missed out a day earlier in qualifying for the U.S. Open in a 36-holer at Walton Heath in Surrey. On arrival in Memphis the triple Major winner learned he and Lowry ...

Memphis, TN …. Thailand’s Kiradech Aphibarnrat and red-hot Chilean Joaquin Niemann have accepted PGA Tour ‘Special Temporary Membership’ for the remainder of the 2017-18 PGA TOUR Season. Aphibarnrat and Niemann, who are both in this week’s FedEx St. Jude Classic field, bring the total number of active international PGA TOUR members to 87 from 27 countries. Both players needed to earn 269 non-member FedExCup points to become eligible for Special Temporary Membership, equal to ...

Little known Scottish amateur Ryan Lumsden, and the World No. 100th ranked amateur, has brilliantly qualified for next week’s U.S. Open at Shinnenock Hills. Bizarrely, at the start of qualifying on Monday there was no Scots into this year’s second Major but the Home of Golf nation will now boast three after Richie Ramsay qualified by sharing third place at Walton Heath and some five hours later with Russell Knox being tied for fifth and among the leading 14 at similiar 36-hole qualifier ...

Shane Lowry has shared the leading honours to brilliantly qualify for next week’s U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills on New York’s Long Island. Lowry put aside his disappointed of officials moving the Walton Heatlh qualifier back a week and tee-up in suburban Columbus a day after playing all four rounds of The Memorial in nearby Dublin, Ohio. The Clara golfer will now join Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell in what will be Lowry’s sixth U.S. Open and his fifth in succession. Of course, ...