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Shane Lowry reckons he will would be happy playing the new-look “Burma Road” course every week after his four under 68 on the opening day of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. After dropping shots over the closing two holes of his outward nine, Lowry capped his day with three birdies in succession from the 10th. It left Lowry trailing just two shots adrift of Sweden’s Johan Carlsson, who dropped a shot at the last in a round of a six-under par 66. Five players, including the very in-form ...

Fort Worth, TX … There is always stories within stories at any golf tournament and, of course, if you have 156 players in a field you will have 156 different stories. But there is one very unique story already unfolding at this week’s Dean & Deluca Invitational and as we here at www.golfbyourmiss.com have been proudly reporting. And that is the tale of 21-year Thai-born sensation, Jazz Janewattananond who is coached by an Englishman, who happens to live in Arizona and while Jazz’s caddy ...

Tiger Woods has reached out to his many, many fans and supporters with some very encouraging news declaring he feels great and wants to play professional golf again. But the burning question is that Tiger is just not certain when he will return to competition. In a story on his website Wednesday, Woods said he is pain-free following fusion surgery on his back last month. He said the procedure provided “instant nerve relief” from the back pain that has sidelined him since causing to him to withdraw ...

After missing the cut in last two PGA Tour appearances, Jordan Spieth has returned to using the putter that won him two Majors ahead of this week’s defence of his Dean & Deluca Invitational title at Fort Worth, Texas. Spieth raised plenty of eyebrows among his colleagues and also observers a week ago in turning to a Scotty Cameron T5W Tour mallet putter for the AT & T Byron Nelson at Irving, also in Texas. However, after missing the cut a week with scores of 68 and 75, and this on top of ...

Graeme McDowell has not taken lightly his decision to contest week’s Dean & Deluca Invitational in Texas. McDowell is teeing-up the $US 6.7m event on the Colonial Club course in Fort Worth for a first occasion but it also has meant missing the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. In fact, McDowell has sat out the BMW PGA just once in the 13 years since he first walked onto the “Burma Road” layout in 2oo3 and that was in 2o14 when his wife, Kristin was giving birth to the couples first child. However, ...

Fort Worth, TX ….. Defending champion and double Major winning Jordan Spieth offered some simple advice to one of the youngest competitors in this week’s Dean & Deluca Invitational. Thai sensation Jazz Janewattananond celebrated his 21st birthday last November and since then he was won on both the Asian Tour and more recently the MENA Tour. And now Jazz is making his PGA Tour debut at the Colonial Club thanks to an invitation from the title sponsors Only 2o-year old Australian Curtis ...

Fort Worth, Texas ….. Harold Varner 111 confirmed he will return to Australia later this year to defend his Australian PGA Championship at the RACV Royal Pines Resort in Queensland. The 26-year old born in famed Akron, Ohio followed-up his second-place finish after a play-off in 2o15 to win the Joe Kirkwood trophy last December by two shots courtesy of nine birdies in a closing round 65. It was Varner 111s first success as a professional and he celebrated drinking champagne from the trophy. “I ...