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Dunne struggled with his game on a rain-affected Glenmarie Country Club course with he and Swedish partner, Alen Noren among three shock losses on day one of the biennial event. Thomas Bjorn’s much fancied side lost the first round 2 ½ to 3 ½ points and with Paul Casey and Tommy Fleetwood combining superbly with three birdies each to win the opening match 4 & 3. The second all-England duo of Ross Fisher and Tyrrell Hatton won the last match of the day 5 & 4. Embarrassingly, former Open ...

Before his debut in this week’s EurAsia Cup, lone Irishman Paul Dunne sat down to write about his longstanding love affair with match play and the world of team golf * I love match play golf. Love it. You’re right in the thick of it from the off. Try bottling the buzz of being in contention for an event on back nine Sunday, but getting that feeling every day, every round, every shot. From the very first tee shot. In normal golf, week-to-week out on Tour, you might sometimes get a thrill out ...

Scot Bradley Neil kick-started his golfing New Year with a bang holing his second shot for an eagle on route to a share of fourth place on dayScot Bradley Neil kick-started his golfing New Year with a bang holing his second shot for an eagle on route to a share of fourth place on day one of the BMW SA Open in Ekurhuleni, South Africa. Neil, who turns 22 next Tuesday signed for a five-under par 67 that also included six birdies to be trailing just two shots behind the leading duo of South African ...

European Team Captain, Thomas Bjorn has singled out Rory McIlroy for praise ahead of Friday’s start to the third biennial EurAsia Cup in Malaysia. Bjorn leads a very strong European Team including European No. 1 Tommy Fleetwood, former Open champ, Henrik Stenson along with three other past Ryder Cup stars in Paul Casey, Ross Fisher, Matthew Fitzpatrick and Thomas Pieters. Paul Dunne is the lone Irishman in the European Team as was the case two years when Shane Lowry was a single Emerld Isle ...

Former Ryder Cup Captain and past Open Champion, Darren Clarke has never been one you would liken to ‘fresh notes of grapefruit, cedarwood and vanilla’ or ‘delicate notes of saffron and thyme blended with leather and nutmeg. On the contrary, Clarke would seem more familiar with the delicated notes of water, barley, roast malt extract, hops, and brewer’s yeast. However Clarke seems to have created a first in the world of men’s professional golf launchiing his own line ...

World No. 1 Dustin Johnson kick-started the ‘Year of the Dog’ sounding  an ominous warning to his under-25 young pup rivals heading into the New Year storming his way to an eight-shot success in the Sentry Tournament of Champions in Hawaii. Johnson ensured daylight was a distant second posting a final round 64 to win by a dominant 24—under par four-round tally and the largest of his career. The effort matched Jordan’s Spieth’s eight-shot triumph two years ago and was just a shot shy of ...

Spaniard Jon Rahm is determined to start the New Year in the same manner he ended 2017 with victory in the PGA Tour’s Sentry Tournament of Champions in Hawaii. Rahm, 23 stormed his way to third place playing the closing five holes in five-under par that included a six-foot eagle ‘3’ at 15th in a round of 66 for a 12-under par tally in bright but continuing windy conditions on the Kapalua course. It left last month’s European Tour DP World Tour Championship winner in third place and trailing ...