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Denver-based Scot Martin Laird horribly tripled his last hole and then withdrew following a second round eight-over par 78 at the 2025 PGA Tour qualifier on the Sawgrass Country Club course in Florida. Laird, who turns 42 on December 29, is a four-time winner on the PGA Tour but has not tasted success since capturing a second Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in 2020. The Scot has managed to retain his PGA Tour card every year since his full season Tour debut in 2008 and with this season’s ...

The Scottish trio of David Drysdale, Marc Warren and Ollie Roberts will tee-up among 208 players competing from December 17th to 21st on the host Lake View Resort and Golf Club (A & B Course) & Lake View Resort and Golf Club (C & D Course) at Hau Hin in Thailand and looking to earn 2025 Asian Tour membership. The goal for the trio will be to finish amoung the leading 35 that will gain their Asian Tour card. Drysdale is teeing-up for a second time in three years after successfully securing ...

Scottish-born Aussie golfer Connor McKinney has brilliantly posted the first 59 in Australia in nearly 20 years and in the process storming his way into contention in teh second round of the Challenger Tour’s Gippsland Super 6 on the Warragul Country Club club in Victoria. McKinney, 22 teed-up on day two thinking more about making the halfway cut and in starting from the 10th, he birdied his second and third holes before unleashing the fireworks over his inward half starting with a birdie on ...

Rookie pro Gregor Graham enjoyed an adventurous affair on his DP World Tour debut at Leopard Creek in South Africa. Graham, 21 received a late invitation last Sunday into the co-sanctioned Alfred Dunhill Championship and teed-up in a first play-for-pay event and signing for a one-over 73. The young Scot was two-under after just five holes but came unstuck over the next five, posting one birdie but also two bogeys and two doubles before regrouping to birdie 12 and 13 ahead a further bogey on 14 before ...

Double Masters winning José María Olazábal and his Olazabal Design company have designed or renovated golf courses in his native Spain, Greece, Qatar, China, Austria, The Maldives Islands and now have signed a deal to design a golf course in Bahrain. Bahrain boasts just three golf courses, including the Royal Golf Club course designed by Colin Mongomerie and that played host in 2011 to the inaugural European Tour’s Volvo Champion and won by England’s Paul Casey.   The Al Areen ...

Exclusive ….. Scotland’s newest pro Gregor Graham is hoping host course knowledge will add bite to his game when he makes his DP World Tour debut at this week’s co-sanctioned Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek on the edge of the famed Kruger National Park in Malelane. Graham, 21 turned pro mid last month in a surprise move after having certainly booked himself a place in next year’s Walker Cup showdown at famed Cypress Point. However, the lure of being afforded secondary 2025 ...

Rory McIlroy has won the AGW Golf Writers Trophy for an unprecedented fifth time. Members of the Association of Golf Writers voted to reward the Holywood, County Down-born player for a year of three ‘individual’ wins and teaming with fellow Irishman Shane Lowry to capture the Zurich Classic of New Orleans that culminated in a sixth DP World Tour Race to Dubai triumph. McIlroy’s fifth victory is a record for an individual in the 74 year history of the award, breaking his tie with Lee ...