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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 ...

For David Drysdale and his caddying wife Vicky, South Africa has been like a second home for the affable Scots. In a 22-year pro career Drysdale has contested 56 events on the African continent and all but a handful in South Africa and making it his most visited nation to play golf outside of competing in the UK. One of Dyrsdale’s first events as a member of then secondary Challenge Tour was the 2000 Kenya Open while his made his full European Tour member debut two years later teeing-up in the ...

As predicted, the return of Tiger Woods to competition last week in the Bahamas ranked very high when it comes to US TVs most-watched golf tournaments of 2017. More surprising was the Hero World Challenge was a limited field event featuring 18 players and not an official 2017/18 PG Tour counting event. Woods ended a 10-month absence to shoot rounds of 69, 68, 75 and 68 to finish with a very respectable share of ninth place and on a very tricky and very windy Bahamas golf course.   The US-based ...

Nassau, Bahamas … Rickie Fowler seems almost certain to bring his stunning Hero World Challenge course record winning form to Gullane for next year’s Aberdeen Asset Management Open. Fowler stormed his way from seven shots back heading to the final and then opened with seven straight birdies to capture a ninth pro victory by four shots in the Bahamas. The win was Fowler’s second of the year after capturing the Honda Classic by a similar victory margin and helped return the American, who ...