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Fleetwood Flying High In France As Uihlein, Lorenzo-Vera & Bjrok Earn Birkdale Tee Times.

Tommy Fleetwood celebrated his recent engagement and news he is to become a father moving to the top of the Race to Dubai in winning the HNA Open de France. Fleetwood arrived Le Golf National as one of the form players on the European Tour but with a poor record on the course that will host next year’s Ryder Cup having never made the cut or even broken par in Paris. He put that right in some style with a closing bogey-free 66 that gave him a 12 under par total and a one-shot victory over American ...

Drysdale On Verge Of Ending Eight-Year Open Championship Absence in Versailles.

Scot David Drysdale is on the verge of ending an eight-year absence and contesting the Open Championship for just a second time in his career. Drysdale, 42 heads into today’s SUN final round of the French Open in a six-way share 10th place and needing to remain inside the leading 10 to secure one of three spots into the July 20th commencing Open at Royal Birkdale. However, the affable Drysdale is already vying with five others also seeking the same Royal Birkdale exemption including the overnight ...

Ogivly Boosts Hopes For Ninth PGA Tour Title & Royal Birkdale Tee Time.

Geoff Ogilvy has boosted hopes of not only of capturing a ninth PGA Tour title but also securing a place in this year’s Open Championship. The recently turned 40-year old brilliantly turned back the clock grabbing six birdies in a five-under par 65 and muscle his way into second place on day two of the Quicken Loans on the TPC Potomac course in Maryland. It left the proud Australian trailing just two shots behind pint sized Swede David Lingmerth who leads on 10-under with a par of 65s. Ogilvy’s ...

Portstewart Power .. Nine Major Winners, 26 Ryder Cup Stars & 12 Past Irish Open Winners.

Tournament host Rory McIlroy will be among nine Major Champions, 26 Ryder Cup stars, 12 former winners and 16 Irish teeing up in next week richest-ever Dubai Duty Free Irish Open. Joining McIlroy at Portstewart as winners the game’s highest level will be fellow Irish Open winners, Padraig Harrington and Jose Maria Olazabal along with Justin Rose, Darren Clarke, Trevor Immelman, Paul Lawrie, Danny Willett and nearby Portrush native Graeme McDowell. Clarke and Olazabal are among four Ryder Cup Captains ...

Li Haotong’s Mother Goes Fishing For Discarded French Open Putter … See The Video.

It was the most bizarre sights in recent times so much so it had three of Europe’s golfer collapsing in laughter on day one of the French Open on the outskirts of Versailles. As Alex Noren, Tyrrell Hatton and Thomas Pieters made their way onto the 11th green they were greeted by a woman, and with her shorts rolled up, tip toeing in a murky water hazard. The woman was the mother to Chinese leading world ranked, Li Haotong was gingerly making her way to the club she could see sticking just out ...

Jon Rahm Returns To Le National Eight Years After 17th In European Young Masters.

Jon Rahm has come a long way since finishing 17th as a then 15 year old in the 2009 European Young Masters at Le National GC to returning now seven year slater as the World No 11  to tee up in the HNA Open de France. Rahm was competing off a plus 1.8 handicap when he represented Spain. But much water has since flowed pass Notre Dame since Rahm shot scores of 80, 73, 72 on the famed Albatross Course to this week with the now U.S. based Rahm making his European Tour debut on European soil but having ...

McIlroy Shoots Lowest Round In 13 Months But Putting Still Luke Warm.