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Pierre Junior Verlaar conjured a piece of magic on the front nine to win the MENA Tour’s Royal Golf Mohammedia Open in style at Royal Golf Club Tuesday. Starting the final day three shots off the pace, the 18-year- old Dutch prodigy blistered the outward nine with six birdies en route to a bogey-free 65 to reach nine-under for the tournament, beating Morocco’s Ahmed Marjan and England’s Andrew Marshall by two shots. With this convincing victory, Verlaar became the second amateur after ...

Austin, TX .. New World No. 2 Rory McIlroy says he’ll climb back on the horse this week in Texas and hopeful it’s not third round mule ahead of this weeks WGC – Dell Match-Play Championship. Sixty-four players will tee-up on Wednesday and with McIlroy joined by fellow Irishman Shane Lowry competing along the banks of the Colorado River in Austin. McIlroy faces 2015 Irish Open winner Soren Kjeldsen in the first of 32 three round robin encounters on the Austin Country Club course. And the ...

Austin, TX … Tiger Woods clearly won over New York City fans at a book signing launch of his new publication. As good friend and colleague Larry Fine reports some 250 fans and autograph hounds lined up outside a Manhattan book store on Monday, some who had camped overnight, to attend a book signing by Woods for “The 1997 Masters: My Story”, about his first major title. A Barnes and Noble spokesman said they had enough interest to accommodate a thousand people, but had to limit ...

Orlando, FL .. Two years ago Marc Leishman was forced to withdraw from the Masters in learning his terribly ill wife had just a 5 per cent chance of survival. Now he and Audrey are returning to Augusta National after the Australian dramatically holed a 50-foot eagle putt to help secure him victory and a Masters invitation in the special tribute Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill in suburban Olrando. It was if ‘The King’ was looking down on the 33-year old Leishman who came one shot behind ...

Orlando, FL … Rory McIlroy as left to rue an ‘overly aggressive’ birdie putt attempt at the last that spoilt hopes of forcing a play-off in the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill in Orlando. McIlroy had been tied for the lead standing on the final tee but walked off with a three-putt bogey in a three under par 69 and two shots behind Aussie giant Marc Leishman. Leishman had come from one the then leading trio to the front in holing a dramatic 50-foot eagle on the par five 16th ...

Colin Montgomerie probably believes he’s at least owed a complimentary copy of Tiger Woods new book – ‘1997 Masters’ that Woods personally launches tomorrow (MON) in New York City. Woods has chosen a leading book store in Union Square to sign just a limited number of copies of the book, a 20-year anniversary reflection of the 21-year old’s historic 12-shot victory at Augusta National. Woods was competing in his first Major as a pro and for Monty, who was then European No. 1, it was the ...

Orlando, FL … Tiger Woods long-time agent Mark Steinberg has slammed reports Woods is unlikely to compete in next month’s Masters. Steinberg singled out a story appearing on-line in the US-based Golf World magazine citing several sources saying it ‘seems unlikely’ will compete in the Masters that commences on 6th April. “I have no idea who the really close sources are but I can tell you this, nobody spoke to Golf World; so how he could know something that Tiger and I don’t knows ...