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Bizarrely, Marc Leishman proudly still has the golf ball Greg Norman handed him as a then seven-year old at the 1991 Australian Masters. Leishman also revealed he also grew to admire Norman thanks also to a life-size cardboard cut-off of Norman a local Warrnambool Holden dealership presented to him that Leishman proudly kept in his bedroom. And in returning to competition for this week’s PGA Tour season-ending Tour Championship and FedEx Cup decider Leishman spoke of the inspiration he gleaned ...

Padraig Harrington will look to again draw on plenty of Irish support when he tees-up in the defence of his Portugal Masters title at Oceanic Villamoura. Harrington singled out the support from the many Irish fans present a year ago and soon after capturing the event on the Oceanico Victoria coures on the sun-splashed Algarve. The win was Harrington’s 15th on the European Tour but a first in eight years and 74 days, and a victory gap of having contested 115 Tour events since capturing the 2008 ...

Springbok golfing sensation MG Keyser kept his cool when it mattered most on a steamy afternoon to win the Golf Citizen Classic, beating Spain’s Victor Bertran in a sudden-death playoff at the Els Club, Dubai, on Wednesday. Bertran, playing in the seventh last group, carded a final round of 66 to set the clubhouse target of nine under that the South African ace, who started the day two in front, matched with a birdie on the 18th to force a playoff. Keyser, who closed with a 73, hit the green ...

Atlanta, GA … World No. 1 Dustin Johsnon singled out Marc Leishman for special praise ahead of this week’s PGA Tour 2016/17 season-concluding Tour Championship in Atlanta. Johnson returns to East Lake course with bitter-sweet memories sharing the lead on day, leading on day two and in a tie for the lead with a round to play but only to shoot a disappointing last day 73 and watch from the clubhouse as Rory McIlroy defeated his good friend, Kevin Chappell with a birdie at the first extra hole. But ...

Zane Scotland admitted to feeling the buzz again after hauling himself back into contention as Sweden’s Oscar Hertzberg produced one of the rarest shots in golf, an albatross, ahead of the final round of the Golf Citizen Classic at the Els Club, Dubai, on Tuesday. England’s Scotland, a 10-time winner on the MENA Tour, rediscovered some magic of old, following his solid opening 69 with a 67 to join Wales’ Toby Hunt and Hamza Amin of Pakistan in a three-way tie for second on eight-under, just ...

It comes as no surprise Rory McIlroy has laid the blame for an indifferent season squarely on an injury-interrupted year. McIlroy ended his PGA Tour last week in Chicago which a poorest FedEx Cup standing since joining the Tour full-time in 2011. However, it didn’t help McIlroy’s year that he sat out nearly six weeks early on in 2017 after a rib tear and then only to aggravate the injury overdoing the practice in returning in May. It is the reason why McIlroy will shut down his season for six ...

MENA Tour rookie Abhishek Jha fired a flawless seven-under 65 to seize the early momentum in the Golf Citizen Classic at the Els Club, Dubai, on Monday. In sparking form off the tee, the 30-year-old from the southern Indian city of Bengaluru, Jha reeled off seven birdies, including four on the bounce from the third to move atop the leaderboard, a good two shots clear of Pakistan’s Hamza Amin and South Africa’s MG Keyser, the winner of last week’s Dubai Creek Open. South Africa’s Teagan Moore, ...