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The Tartan duo of David ‘Double D’ Drysdale and amatuer Dominic McGlinchey have their work cut out to play all four rounds of the Asian Tour’s International Series Qatar in Doha. Drysdale posted a level par 70 while the 18-year-old McGlinchey, who lives in Doha with his family, a 71 in indeal scoring conditions on the host Doha Golf Club course. Drysdale is teeing-up in the tour’s penultimate event of the 2024 season and in what will be his last ​in the under-50 mens game as he ...

Cameron Smith is not known as being out-spoken so it comes as quite a surprise when he blasted organisers of this week’s co-sanctioned ISPS Handa Australian Open over the set-up of the two host courses –  Kingston Heath and the  Victoria. The 2022 Open Champion lambasted those responsible for the ‘softness’ of the famed pair of Melbourne Sandbest courese “I’ve played down here in rain before and it’d still be like that (hard and fast) the next day, so I ...

Scotland’s Richie Ramsay this week is celebrating a double ‘Down Under’ career delight in contesting the ISPS Handa Australian Open in Melbourne. Not only is Ramsay making his debut in the co-sanctioned event but it is also a first occasion since this very week in 2008 that Ramsay was last in Melbourne for his first tournament as a full member of the then named European Tour. The 2008 SportsBet Australian Masters was staged at the Huntingdale course and located just a 10-minute ...

Tiger Woods has formally advised he will not be contesting next week’s 2024 edition of the Hero World Challenge in The Bahamas. Woods, 48 issued a near 50-word message on his ‘X’ account confirming his decision not the compete in the event he hosts annually. In announcing he will not be teeing-up Woods named the three players who will now make-up the field and the tournament headed by defending champ and World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler.   I am disappointed that I will not be ...

It’s just 11 days till tee-off on December 5th in the 2024 Hero World Challenge at Albany in The Bahamas. And the big question remains will tournament host Tiger Woods tee-up in the elite 20-player field? Event organisers have named 17 players headed by World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and two other major champions in Keegan Bradley and Brian Harman. What we are yet to be advised is who will be the three players to make-up the 20 and will TW be one of them. Woods has contested only five tournaments ...

Scot Richie Ramsay has arrived in Melbourne buoyed ahead of his first ISPS Handa Australian Open. Ramsay, 41 jetted-in from Brisbane after posting a third and final round 71 for a share of 34th place in the rain-shortened and co-sanctioned Australian PGA Championship at the Royal Queensland course. Local Brisbane golfer Elvis Smylie, and the 22-year-old son of 1985 Wimbledon Double​s champ Liz Smylie upstaged three-time former event winner and 2022 Open champ Cam Smith by two shots to win a ...

Sensational young Aussie pro Elvis Smylie has captured a second victory in a month with his success at the BMW PGA Championship in Brisbane. The 22-year-old son of former Wimbledon champion Liz posted a third and closing round 67 for a two-shot success at 14-under in the rain-affected event on the host Royal Queensland course. Smylie captured a maiden pro career title just over a month ago with success in the West Australian Open and now a second major Australian tournament and, in the process, holding ...