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Orlando, FL … Spain’s Leo Lilja produced a double dose of success in capturing the MENA Tour’s season-opening Palmeraie Country Club Casablanca Open, beating England’s Luke Joy in a marathon playoff on Thursday. Playing in his first event on the tour after graduating from the Qualifying School last week, the Spaniard shot a bogey-free 68 to set a clubhouse target of eight-under which only Joy could match, reeling of three birdies coming home after offsetting an early bogey on ...

Orlando, FL … Double Augusta champion Bubba Watson shares Danny Willett’s post Masters downturn in form but he’s not sure about being served ‘Toad in the Hole’ should Willett select the meal as his main choice at his Masters Champions Dinner. ‘Toad in the Hole’ is traditional English dish consisting of sausages in Yorkshire pudding butter and usually served with onion gravy and vegetables. Watson kept both his main courses very simple to appease everyone serving ...

The European Tour is today delighted to announce that the annual Players’ Player of the Year Award has been renamed The Seve Ballesteros Award. The award is voted for by every European Tour Member at the end of a season and will now carry the name of the legendary Spaniard, who became the first European golfer to win the Masters Tournament in 1980, and who repeated the victory three years later. The first recipient of The Seve Ballesteros Award will be Sweden’s Henrik Stenson who was the overwhelming ...

Orlando, FL … On the up-coming 20th year anniversary of his stunning 12-shot Masters triumph, and now at a time of continued uncertainty in his career, Tiger Woods has spoken of how much winning his first Major Championship still means to him. On that day in April, 1997 it was almost 50 years to the day after fellow African-American Jackie Robinson broke major league baseball’s colour barrier, at Augusta National, a club that no black man was allowed to join until 1991, and at the invitation-only ...

Orlando, FL … Australia’s Curtis Luck will tee-up in this week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational as the new No.1 amateur in the world. When the R&A released its rankings overnight, the reigning US Amateur champ, the dominant amateur through 2016, had finally earnt enough points to leap frog American Maverick McNealy atop the rankings. “Since I started playing really seriously when I was 14 or 15, it’s been my goal from there. So for five years I’ve been trying to reach that ...

Orlando, FL … Rory McIlroy revealed he’s got every letter framed including one he received just a month before the passing of the late, great Arnold Palmer. This week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational is a special tribute to the ‘The King’ who had passed away the same day McIlroy sensationally captured last year’s PGA Tour season-ending Tour Championship in Atlanta. News of Palmer’s passing was purposely withheld till after the completion of the event. And McIlroy, who had received a ...

Lee Corfield carded an unblemished five-under 66 to take the outright lead going into the final round of the MENA Tour’s season-opening Palmeraie Country Club Casablanca Open on Wednesday. The 35-year- old Englishman, who opened with a 68, reeled off four birdies on the front nine and one more coming home to reach eight-under for the tournament, one ahead of his compatriot Stuart Archibald and two clear of overnight leader Luke Joy, who returned a second round 70. Morocco’s Younes El Hassani, ...