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Orlando, Florida ….  Padraig Harrington has more interest than most in backing New Year changes to the Rules of Golf that will ban ‘TV lounge chair’ dismissals. The triple Major winner knows first-hand what it’s like to be thrown out of an event having been disqualified from the 2011 Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship after being judged to have illegally moved his ball on day one of the UAE event. A TV viewer, and having access to ‘slow-mo’ footage, emailed the European Tour to say Harrington ...

Orlando, Florida …. Golf’s greatest player, Jack Nicklaus has applauded the decision by the ruling bodies of the sport to rule out from January 1st people phoning-in or emailing alleged breaches of the rules from watching TV coverage of golf. Of course, TV coverage of golf was in the infant stages when Nicklaus began dominating TV screens and even in his Nicklaus’ later stages of his career there was no such thing as ‘slow-mo’ TV coverage. Nonetheless, the 77-year old ...

Orlando, Florida … The golf world may be excited at the prospect of Tiger Woods soon returning to ful-time competition but not Jack Nicklaus. In fact, Nicklaus admitted he was not about to sit down for four days and watch TV coverage of Woods impressing at the recent Hero World Challenge. Woods ended 10 months on the sidelines with a share of ninth place on the Albany course in the Bahamas. But while the 18-time Major winning Nicklaus indicated the TV was on in his Florida house, golf’s ...

Padraig Harrington’s 14-year old son Paddy has put real pressure on his illustrious triple Major winning father heading into Saturday’s opening day of the Father-and-Son event in Orlando. “If we win, I’ll be saying I carried him and if we lose, it will be all his fault,” declared a smiling Paddy Harrington. The Harrington’s are making their debut in the ‘Major Champion Only’ team event being staged on the Ritz Carlton Grande Lakes course just minutes from the front gates of Disney ...

Justin Rose insists his golfing tank remains topped after an 18,000 kilometre journey to tee-up in his final event of 2017 – the Asian Tour’s season-ending Jakarta Masters in Indonesia. The $US 750,000 event is the last of 36 events on the 2017 Asian Tour schedule and with Rose teeing-up for a first time in Indonesia. In recent weeks, Rose has travelled to compete in China, Turkey, Dubai, Hong Kong and last week teed-up close to his home in the Bahamas. “I’ve been looking ...

Three-time major champion Padraig Harrington will make his PNC Father/Son Challenge debut this week with now 14-year old son, Paddy as his partner. The two-day event again takes place on the Ritz Carlton Grande Lakes course in Orlando. Harrington and his son will rub shoulders with some of the greats of the game and none higher than 18-time Major winning Jack Nicklaus who will tee-up with his grandson as partner. Lee Trevino is also competing with his son while double Masters winner Bernhard Langer ...

Four-time Major winning Rory McIlroy is set to renew his rivaly with 14-time Major winning Tiger Woods at next February’s Woods-hosted Genesis Open in suburban Los Angeles. Organisers of the event confirmed a story run last week by www.golfbytourmiss.com  that McIlroy is returning to the event for only a second occasion after contesting the then 2016 Northern Trust Open and finishing T20th behind Bubba Watson. The Tiger Woods Foundation took over the running of the event this year but with ...