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Greensboro, NC … Padraig Harrington has been handed a 2017/18 season life-line after an injury-interrupted PGA Tour season. Harrington and his family headed home after he missed the third round cut in Sunday’s concluding Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina. The triple Major winner needed to finish top-three to qualify for the start of this week’s lucrative FedEx Cup Play-Off Series. Harrington ends the year officially 199th on the FedEx Cup points standing and his poorest ...

Greensboro, NC … “Mission Accomplished” declared Geoff Ogilvy after the double comfort of securing his PGA Tour card for next season and in the immediate future qualifying for Thursday’s start to the lucrative FedEx Cup Play-Off series. Not since he first went to Q-School nearly 19-years ago has Ogilvy endured the pressure he found himself this week at the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina. For Ogilvy and many of his PGA Tour colleagues it was a PGA Tour ‘Last Chance ...

Greensboro, NC … World No. 9 Henrik Stenson birdied four of his closing six holes and take ‘Route 66’ for a second day running in seizing a one-shot lead at 16-under par into the final round of the Wyndham Championship in North Carolina. Stenson, and looking to win for a first time in four years Stateside, also posted the second-lowest 54-hole tally in the tournament’s history and three behind fellow Swede Carl Pettersson. Three players and all American – Kevin Na (65), Webb Simpson ...

Greensboro, NC … Geoff Ogilvy is quietly-confident of a T5th finish or higher at the Wyndham Championship to qualify for next week’s Northern Trust and the first event of the FedEx Cup Play-Off Series. That is the PGA Tour forecast after Ogilvy produced a second straight four-under par 66 to move into a share of 23rd place at eight-under par. Ogilvy went into the round in continuing heatwave conditions trailing nine strokes from the lead and immediately making inroads with three birdies ...

Greensboro, NC … Shane Lowry now needs to finish T6th or higher at the Wyndham Championship if he is to qualify for next week’s Northern Trust and the first event of the FedEx Cup Play-Off Series. That is the PGA Tour forecast after Lowry rode a roller-coaster of emotions over the closing stages of his third round in continuing heatwave conditions at the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro. Lowry have moved to 10-under par thanks to back-to-back birdies at the 10th and 11th holes before ...

Greensboro, North Carolina … Ollie Schniederjans has muscled his way into Wyndham Championship victory contention thanks to a new Odyseey putter. The Dallas-born Schniederjans had just 27 putts on day two of the Greensboro event in shooting a sizzling seven-under par 63. Then on day three the 6 foot 1 inch Schniederjans stood tall and muscling his way TBA Schneiderjans teed-up in this week’s $US 5.8m event packing an Odyssey Touloun Design Long putter in his Callaway bag. MORE TO FOLLOW

Wade Ormsby finds himself just one round shy of a break-through European Tour victory heading to the final round of the co-sanctioned Fiji International. Adelaide’s favourite golfing son was in sizzling form on day three taking ‘Route 66’ in snatching seven birdies in ten holes from the eighth to the 17th and move to 10-under par on the stunning Natadola Bay GC, at Natadola in Fiji. Ormsby’s cause was also helped when 29-year old fellow Aussie Jason Norris walked off ...