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Muirfield Village, Columbus, Ohio … Tiger Woods heads into the week’s Jack Nicklaus-hosted Memorial, and an event he’s won five times, confident he still remembers how to clinch a ‘W’. Nicklaus had remarked on Tuesday that before Woods does win again, and it is close to five years since Woods last tasted success, the now 42-year does need to learn how to win again. And Woods, who last competed in the Memorial in 2015 and shooting his worst Tour score of an 85, fully agrees with the ...

Muirfield Village, Ohio …. Golf’s greatest champion Jack Nicklaus still believes Tiger Woods can break the ‘Golden Bear’s’ record of 18-Major Championship victories. It will be 10-years in a fortnight since Woods won a 14th and last Major in capturing the 2008 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach and with Woods arriving for this week’s Nicklaus-hosted Memorial event in Columbus, Ohio having played a practice round Monday at Shinnecock Hils and venue next fortnight for the 2018 ...

Some seven hours after Franciso Molinari captured the biggest victory of his career and 2012 & 2014 European Ryder Cup team-mate Justin Rose has stormed to victory in the PGA Tour’s Fort Worth Invitational in Texas. Rose, and as Molinari had done at Wentworth in winning the BMW PGA Championship, was never headed over the final round posting a last day 64, and despite a closing hole bogey, the 37-year old won by three shots with a 20-under par tally in heatwave conditions on the Colonial ...

Wentworth, Surrey …… Agony yet again for Rory McIlroy as he snatched defeat from the jaws of victory to finish runner-up in the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. McIlroy went from a three-shot leader on Friday night to the sad Sunday sight of a 20-foot hopeful ‘eagle’ putt that could have tied him for the lead stop inches from the hole. McIlroy did birdie his closing two holes but his round of 70 for a 15-under par tally was two strokes shy of a second victory toast this year. Italy’s ...

Wentworth, Surrey …. Legendary jockey and fellow Northern Irishman A P McCoy reckon’s Rory McIlroy could have easily shot a round of 60 on day two of the BMW PGA Championship here at Wentworth. McCoy, who knows McIlroy well, rode a record 4,358 winners, and was the UKs champion jockey for a record 20 consecutive times, every year he was a professional. The now retired 44-year old, along with Irish legend J P McManus, were afforded official inside-the-ropes access to walk all 18 holes ...

Wentworth, Surrey …. Rory McIlroy brilliantly struck fear into his BMW PGA rivals soaring to the top of the leader-board with an equal low Wentworth score heading to the weekend in leafy Surrey. McIlroy, and for a first time in two dozen loops of the ‘Burma Road’ course, didn’t drop a shot in a round of 65 as he targets pro career win number 24. The World No. 8 is nursing his way back into winning form after his final round Masters showing and also missing the cut in his last event, the ...

Wentworth, Surrey … Ireland’s Shane Lowry bravely took it on the chin in posting a three-under par 69 and particularly when the Clara golfer was tied with McIlroy at five-under standing on the 18th tee. Lowry sent his final drive right into trees from where he had to take a penalty drop.  He then found water guarding the green with his fourth, found the green with a sixth and holed a great putt for a double-bogey ‘7’. “I played great today for 17 holes and just unfortunate ...