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Naples, Florida … The all-Ireland pairing of Shane Lowry and Graeme McDowell are set to end a long USA domination and become the first Irish-born winners and only the second non-USA born duo of the QBE Shootout at the Tiburon course in Naples, Florida. Lowry and McDowell combined to come from five shots behind at the start of the second round and gel superbly in the modified alternate shot format in recording an eight-under par 64 and storm to an eventualy share of the lead in the overcast, ...

Rory McIlroy has handed childhood best friend Harry Diamond a gold-lined offer he really could not refuse to now become his full-time caddy. The four-time Major winning McIlroy has, and after hundreds of job offers, to keep Diamond on the bag heading into the 2018 season and this being reported by good friend and AGW colleague, Ewan Murray. It means Diamond now likely quitting his job as manager of a number of Belfast and Bangor bars and travelling the globe officially now as McIlroy’s club and ...

Naples, Florida …. Double Major winning Greg Norman spent last week also returning from injury to play competition golf and just a 20-minutes drive from where Tiger Woods also returned to formal competition. Norman was competing in the Richard Branson hosted Manuka Dr. Necker Open, an annual pro-celebrity event normally played on Branson’s Necker Island but due to the devestation caused by Hurricane Irma the two-day event was moved to the Baha Mar Royal Blue course on the Bahamas. Norman ...

Naples, Florida …. Shane Lowry is excited at the thought of celebrating his very first event of the New Year hopefully with a tee-time alongside Tiger Woods. Lowry will launch an inaugural Florida-based assault on the lucrative 2017/18 PGA Tour at the January 25th commencing Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines laid out along the Pacific Ocean near San Diego. Woods also is expected to announce he will resume full competition at the same event and this after an impressive return to form at ...

Naples, Florida … Spain’s Sergio Garcia, the reigning Masters Champion, has been named European Tour Golfer of the Year for 2017, receiving the prestigious annual award for the first time. Garcia enjoyed a phenomenal 12 months on the global stage, winning three times on the European Tour, including an emotional first Major Championship at Augusta National in April. The 37 year old defeated his Ryder Cup team-mate Justin Rose in a play-off to become the third Spaniard to claim the famous Green ...

Tiger Woods has not contested a Major Championship since 2015 and has not won a Major Championship since victory in the 2008 U.S. Open. But after just one full four-round tournament in a year and bookmakers have Woods at 20/1 to capture the 2018 Masters at Augusta National. Ireland-based Paddy Power has triple Major winning Jordan Spieth as the favourite at 6/1 to win the first Major of the New Year. World No. 1 Dustin Johnson along with four-time Major winning Rory McIlroy are equal 8/1 favourites ...

Justin Rose has been announced as the tournament host for the 2018 British Masters and with the Olympic Champion choosing the famed Walton Heath course, in Surrey, as the venue from October 11-14. It will be the first time a main European Tour event has been held at Walton Heath since Australia’s Mike Harwood won the 1991 European Tour and with the course hosting the very first European Open in 1978. Since 2005, Walton Heath has been the venue for the U.S. Open European qualifying tournament ...