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Shane Lowry insists eventually settling full-time in the States is very much dependent on how his young family cope renting for six months within the gated Mirasol Country Club community in Florida. Lowry and his wife, Wendy have elected to rent premises located off the famed PGA Boulevard at Palm Beach Gardens. The two Mirasol courses are located less than a five-minute drive from PGA National and host venue each year to the Honda Classic and where Padraig Harrington won in 2015, and also where ...

Masters champion Sergio Garcia is this year’s recipient of the Golf Writers Trophy, as awarded by the Association of Golf Writers. The 37-year old Spaniard won an overwhelming majority of votes cast by AGW members following a season in which he claimed his first major title. Garcia’s Masters victory was one of three wins in what he has described as the best season of his life.  He won the Omega Dubai Desert Classic in February before claiming his first Green Jacket by triumphing in a thrilling ...

Naples, Florida …. The all-Ireland duo of Graeme McDowell and Shane Lowry have vowed to kick-start their New Year campaign in earnest after the agony of letting slip an historic victory in the QBE Shootout at Naples, Florida. American’s Steve Stricker and Sean O’Hair came from two shots adrift of the Emerald Isle pair to win by a similar margin with an eight-under par 64 for a combined 26-under par winning total. McDowell and Lowry had been just one behind with two holes to play only to ...

Naples, Florida … Greg Norman has designed over 100 golfer courses in 34 countries and six continents but has singled out his newest design – Cathedral Lodge – as his latest best. Cathedral Lodge is located to the north-east of Melbourne and the capital of the Australian State of Victoria. The course features creeks and and gorges, and is laid out in a natural amphitheatre with a view directly to a high razorback ridge known as the Cathedral Range which forms part of the Great ...

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 ...