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Ponte Vedre, Florida … Tiger Woods did not hesitate for one second in accepting long-time arch rival Phil Mickelson throwing down the gauntlet in a ‘high stakes, winner takes all’ showdown call ahead of this week’s Players Championship at Ponte Vedra in Florida. Woods and Mickelson find themselves grouped, and along with Rickie Fowler, for the opening two rounds of this week’s Players Championship om the TPC Sawgrass course at Ponte Vedre in Florida. It will the first Tour occasion ...

Ponte Vedre, Florida …  Fellow former Players Championship winner Rickie Fowler will be looking for more than just being an interested spectator when he joins Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson for the opening two rounds of the Players Championship. Long-time arch rivals Woods and Mickelson will tee-up alongside each other on TPC Sawgrass for a first occasion since 2001. And while Fowler, who captured the 2015 Players with a birdie at the first play-off hole, is friendly with both Woods and Mickelson, ...

Ponte Vedre, Florida …  Despite having to clarify his comments, Rory McIlroy last week spoke of the importance of the Masters and it’s place in the hierarchy of the Majors. Now Phil Mickelson has somewhat sided with the Irishman in also placing the Masters, and a Major he’s now won on two occasions (2004 & 2006), also up on a pedestal ahead of the other three Majors. Mickelson, and a winner of five Majors, was asked ahead of this week’s Players Championship what he thought ...

Ponte Vedre, Florida …  In one of his more revealing interviews, Phil Mickelson admitted 15-years ago it ‘sucked’ when he found himself up against a rampant winning Tiger Woods. Mickelson and Woods have long been arch foes but then in recent years the pair of now 40-somethings have developed a mutual respect for each other and no more evident at the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup where Woods has acted as a vice-captain. The friendship they now enjoy will be evident when the duo, ...

Rory McIlroy has plenty of homework ahead of teeing-up in Thursday’s ultra-lucrative Players Championship. The double Wells Fargo champion left Quail Hollow after frustrating a display with McIlroy posting a last day 71 for a clubhouse share of 16th place at three-under par. McIlroy has posted earlier scores of 68, 76 and a third round 66. He managed three final day birdies, and the best being a 24-footer at the par-3 17th, but takig the gloss off his last round were bogeys at 11, 14 and then ...

Ireland’s Gavin Moynihan almost doubled his career earnings on the European Tour for two days’ work when he partnered Paul Dunne to victory in the second edition of GolfSixes. Moynihan, 23, who has not made a halfway cut in eight events this season, chipped in for a birdie on the first play-off hole to secure victory over South Korea in the semi-finals at Centurion Club in St Albans. The Irish pair then made three birdies and an eagle in the space of five holes to beat France’s Romain Wattel ...

Tiger Woods heads to this week’s Players Championship with an unwanted first in more than four years. Woods failed to record a solitary birdie in Wells Fargo Championship closing round of a three-over par 74 for a two-over tally that included 31 putts on the Quail Hollow course in suburban Charlotte. Not since the 2014 WGC – Cadillac Championship at Doral in Florida has the former long-time World No. 1 played a PGA Tour event without a birdie. And it was just the sixth time Woods has failed ...