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St. Andrews, Scotland …. Graeme McDowell gets back to normal day job this week in Scotland still on a high after playing his part in Europe’s stunning Ryder Cup triumph in France. McDowell joins five other Irish teeing-up in this week’s starting Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland. McDowell was runner-up in the 2004 event and is competing for a second straight European Tour occasion in Scotland after having contested July’s Scottish Open at Gullane. ‘G Mac’ will partner ...

St. Andrews, Scotland … Triple Major winning Brooks Koepka looked and sounded very concerned in describing it to be the ‘worst day of my life’ in learning the spectator struck in the eye on day one of the Ryder Cup could lose the sight in her right eye. Corine Remande was hit by a wayward shot on the par-four sixth hole at Le Golf National in Versailles. The American, who is contesting this week’s Alfred Dunhill Links Championship here in Scotland, went on Twitter on Tuesday ...

St. Andrews, Scotland … It comes as no surprise Tommy Fleetwood is missing his best friend, Francesco Molinari. “Moliwood’, as the duo were affectionately named last week in France, teamed to win four of four matches for their victorious European Ryder Cup team. And while Molinari, who went on to secure a first in European Ryder Cup history in winning five of five matches, has taken the week off, Fleetwood tees-up in this week’s Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. The reigning ...

“Oh, I’ve missed you!” Rory McIlroy’s comments after being handed the Claret Jug at a corporate outing earlier this week at Royal Portrush. McIlroy got a full 18-hole look at next year’s Open Championship venue where golf’s oldest Major is returning for a first occasion since 1951. And it was McIlroy’s first hit-out on the famed Co. Antrim course since hosting the 2015 Irish Open where he had missed the halfway cut. McIlroy joined winners of a joint TaylorMade and Golf Now promotion ...

St. Andrews, Scotland … Triple Major winning Brooks Koepka scoffed at suggestions he and Dustin Johnson were fighting on board the USA Ryder Cup team flight to France declaring the pair are the best of friends. A London tabloid reported Johnson took exception to Koepka consulting with his fiancée, Paulina Gretsky following earlier suggestions Johnson and Gretsky had split. There were also suggestions both Koepka and Johnson were involved in a further scuffle last Sunday following the USA’s ...

It will now be a double celebration when Edoardo Molinari catches-up next week with baby brother, Francesco. Strangely, Edoardo has not seen Francesco, who is 19-months younger, since well before Francesco’s stunning Open Championship victory at Carnoustie. Not only did Franceso become the first Italian to win a Major but the 35-year old last Sunday became the first ‘European’ Ryder Cup player to win five of five matches in a Ryder Cup. And it was Molinari who secured the point needed for victory ...

St. Andrews, Scotland … Padraig Harrington’s quest to lead Europe into the 2020 Ryder Cup continues to gain favourable momentum with fellow Versailles vice-captain, Luke Donald now backing the Dubliner for the Whistling Straits European Team captaincy. Harrington went public in May at a Wilson Staff corporate outing at Carnoustie of his intention to seek the European Team captaincy ‘sooner’ rather than wait for 2026 when Adare Manor is hot favourite to host the biennial event. Now two ...