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Austin, TX … Dustin Johnson’s odds in capturing a first Masters continue to shorten considerably after claiming a third victory in succession with his triumph at the WGC – Dell Match-Play Championship in Austin, Texas. The World No. 1 was for much of the match in a class of his own before holding off a late round fightback to win 1-up over Spain’s gritty Jon Rahm. In the process, Johnson became the first player since the inaugural World Golf Championship in 1999 to win all four WGC titles ...

Austin, TX … World No. 1 Dustin Johnson remained on target to achieve something Tiger Woods has failed to manage and that is to win all four WGC titles. This is after Johnson battled hard to overcome Hideto Tanihara 1-up in Sunday morning’s (US time) semi-final and book his place in the final against Spaniard Jon Rahm at the WGC – Dell Match-Play Championship in Austin, Texas. However, the 38-year Tanihara, who has won 13 times in his native Japan between 2003 and last year, was clearly ...

Austin, TX … Ross Fisher’s thrilled to have played his part in Masters golfing history ensuring a record-setting 11 England-born players will tee-up this year at Augusta National. It will be the most number of non-American born golfers from the one country to compete in the 83-year history of the Masters. Fisher’s fate also in ending a five-year Masters absence was confirmed after Denmark’s Soren Kjeldsen was comprehensively beaten 7 & 5 in his WGC – Dell Match-Play quarter-final ...

In the mid-western region of the state of New South Wales, Australia you will find some of the state’s finest rural golfing gems. First stop once leaving Sydney and crossing the Blue Mountains is the Bathurst Golf Club on the western outskirts of the city.  The course is the boyhood home to European and Australasian Tour champion Peter O’Malley and is a shining rural golf nugget, and in a town close to where gold was first discovered in Australia. (Go to:  http://www.golfbytourmiss.com/2014/03/bathurst-golf-club-an-australian-rural-golfing-gold-nugget/ ) Some ...

Austin, TX … Ross Fisher will join a new Masters record of eleven England-born players after his stunning victory over double Augusta winning Bubba Watson on day four of the WGC – Dell Match-Play Championship in Austin, Texas. The 36 year old Fisher left Watson speechless in holing a brilliant 15th hole bunker for a convincing 4 & 3 win and muscle his way into the last eight on the Austin Country Club course. Fisher, and whether or not he advances to Sunday’s semi-final, is assured ...

Austin, TX … Paul Casey and Ross Fisher have been left to carry British hopes into the quarter-final stage of the WGC – Dell Match-Play Championship in Austin, TX. Casey admitted he played his best golf of the three-round robin matches in defeating former Masters champion Charl Schwartzel 4 & 3 while Fisher collected one the biggest scalps in disposing of USA Ryder Cup captain Jim Furyk 4 & 2 on the Austin Country Club course. Casey was one of just eight players to win all three of ...

Austin, TX … Rory McIlroy with head to next fortnight’s Masters admitting he’s mentally strong and not at all feeling drained after salvaging a draw in his ‘dead rubber’ WGC  Dell Match-play Championship match against Argentina’s Emiliano Grillo McIlroy had lost his first match to Dane Soren Kjeldsen and then when American Gary Woodland withdrew due to personal reasons there was no way McIlroy would break into the last 16. In past the past two years, McIlroy ...