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Houston, TX …. New WGC – Dell Technologies Match-Play champion, Bubba Watson headed off on an ‘overseas’ family holiday but with Watson desperate later this year to be on a flight to Paris. Watson captured a second WGC title, a second victory this new season and the 11th PGA Tour win of his pro career with a convincing 7 & 6 triumph overfellow American Kevin Kisner in the final in Austin, Texas. It was the biggest margin of victory in a final since 2008 when Tiger Woods won 8 & ...

Austin, Texas … Bubba Watson heads to next  week’s Masters favourite to become just a ninth player to win three or more Augusta National green jackets. Watson, 39 was in a class of his own in handing out a 7 & 6 drubbing to fellow American Kevin Kisner in the final of the WGC – Dell Match-Play Championship in Austin, Texas. And while Kisner looked exhausted after his earlier six matches Watson took full advantage to also hand out the biggest event defeat since Tiger Woods won 8 ...

Austin, TX ….. It was double Irish delight for Paul Dunne and Seamus Power with each securing their best PGA Tour results by sharing fifth place in the Corales Puntacana Championship staged in the Dominion Republic. Both Irishman grabbed easily their highest PGA Tour finish  in two years with Dunne signing for a closing three-under par 69 and Power a 71 and with the duo among eight players at 11-under par and just a stroke inside the leading 10 given 10-under shared 13th place. The top-10 ...

Former Open Champion, Darren Clarke will contest his first regular PGA Tour event in over two years after accepting an invitation to contest next month’s 50th anniversary RBC Heritage. Clarke is among five players, including double event winner Boo Weekley, who will contest the $6.7m event commencing on April 12th on the Harbour Tour course at Hilton Head, South Carolina. It will be Clarke’s first appearance in a regular PGA Tour event since teeing-up in in the 2016 Valspar Championship ...

Austin, TX … All good things come to end as Dustin Johnson could find out around lunch on Sunday at the WGC – Dell Match-Play in Austin, Texas. For the past 57 weeks ‘DJ’ has ruled the World Golf Rankings but if Justin ‘JT’ Thomas should win his semi-final encounter against fellow American Bubba Watson to become the new World No. 1. Johnson, as current World No. 1 and the Dell’s defending champion, failed to win any of his three round robin encounters thus ...

Austin, Texas … Cameron Smith confessed he was driven by the ‘injustice’ of he and Jonas Blixt winning last April’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans and not being made exempt into the Masters to finally qualify automatically for next fortnight’s opening Major of the year at Augusta National. For reasons unknown, those at Augusta National elected not to afford exemption to both Smith and Sweden’s Jonas Blixt in capturing last year’s inaugual team-format Zurich ...

Austin, TX …. Ian Poulter was doublly displeased first in being advised he had qualified for next fortnight’s Masters ahead of being bundled out of the semi-final of the WGC – Dell Technologies Match-Play. Poulter had defeated former Open Champion, Louis Oosthuizen in a Saturday morning fourth round encounter and then had just over an hour before heading out to tackle American Kevin Kisner in a semi-final showdown on the Austin Country Club course. During his short turnaround time, ...