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Houston, TX …. Four Irish will breast the bar at the Houston Open Last Chance Saloon this week seeking the final invitation into next week’s Masters. The four – Padraig Harrington, Shane Lowry, Seamus Power and Paul Dunne – tee-up in the $7m event looking to join Rory McIlroy in the year’s first Major. Harrington is no stranger to the Golf Club of Houston course having contested the event on 1o occasions since 2006 with a best finish of eighth in 2011. Lowry is making his third appearance ...

Houston, TX … Past Master champion, Jordan Spieth may have singled out Bubba Watson as favourite next week to win a third Masters but says all the pressure will be on the shoulders of Rory McIlroy. McIlroy squeeezd in the first of two further Augusta National practice rounds (Wednesday) and will play a second Thursday. And while McIlroy and caddy, Harry Diamond make themselves more familiar with the year’s first Major Championship venue Spieth is looking to find a lost game by again contesting ...

Houston. TX … In a very blunt admission Jordan Spieth says he has headed into a prior Masters in poorer form than the current crestfallen nature of Texas golfer’s golf game. The 24-year old Dallas native tees-up this week on Lone Star State home soil and in the Houston Open not having tasted success since capturing last year’s back-to-back Travelers Championship in Connecticut and then collecting a third Major with victory at The Open championship at Royal Birkdale. Spieth did go ...

Houston, Texas … Former victorious European Ryder Cup captain, Paul McGinley and now respected SKY Sports commentator, Paul McGinley believes it’s a big ask to expect Tiger Woods to win next week’s Masters. McGinley, and one of the more astute observers of the game, knows Woods game well and close hand having played in Ryder Cup’s where Woods has teed-up in the opposing USA team. But after just five events this year since returning to full-time competition McGinley believes ...

Houston, TX …. Eight months ago, there was the sight of canoeists rowing down the first fairway of this week’s host Houston Open golf course. Hurricane Harvey deluged America’s fourth largest city and with the Golf Club of Houston submerged under four-feet of water. Among those praising the work to restore the course back to championship standard is the leading American duo of Jordan Spieth and Rickie Fowler. Spieth, and a native of Dallas, missed the cut in the event a year ago but tees-up ...

Justin Rose returns to Augusta National with no regrets, no play-off loss hangover and treating this year’s Masters as a fresh ‘body of work’. Indeed, Rose has won enormous praise over the past 51 weeks given how he’s handled his sudden-death loss to Sergio Garcia and that was no more evident at last year’s green jacket presentation ceremony. Now after three wins at the tail of last year and with four top-10s in six PGA Tour events this year, and the exact same number of top-10s ...

Houston, Texas … Four Irish will breast the bar at the Houston Open Last Chance Saloon seeking the final invitation into next week’s Masters. The four – Padraig Harrington, Shane Lowry, Seamus Power and Paul Dunne – tee-up in the $7m event looking to join Rory McIlroy in the year’s first Major. Harrington is no stranger to the Golf Club of Houston course having contested the event on 1o occasions since 2006 with a best finish of eighth in 2011. Lowry is making his third appearance looking ...