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Palm Harbor, FL … Tiger Woods has confirmed, and as many observers expected, he will not return to competition at next week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational and on the occasion of the PGA Tour returning to Bay Hill since the passing last last year of ‘The King’. Woods, who won a remarkable eight Arnold Palmer Invitationals between 2000 and 2013, released a statement and again via his website just a day before the cut-off point for entries into the Arnold Palmer. “Unfortunately, ...

Palm Harbor, FL … Open Champion Henrik Stenson bounced back from illness last week in Mexico to grab a share of second place on day one the Valspar Championship at Palm Harbor. Stenson didn’t drop in glorious scoring conditions on the Copperhead course and capping his round with three straight birdies from his fourth to sixth holes in a seven under par 64. The effort is reported to be Stenson’s lowest score in any Florida tournament he’s contested. It left the affable Swede tied ...

Palm Harbor, FL … Seamus Power put aside any early event uncertainty by taking the sting out of the ‘Snake Pit’ in posting a five under par 66 to be lying a superb fifth on day one of the Valspar Championship near Tampa in Florida. Power capped his round using a new 3-wood he put in his bag by sending a laser-like 270-yard second shot to just six feet and sinking the eagle ‘3’ putt the par five 14th he was playing as his fifth on the Copperhead course at the Innisbrook Resort. It left ...

Scottish golf domination continued on the Africa continent with Jack Doherty and Grant Forrest leading a one-two finish to secure full membership on the MENA (Middle East & Northern Africa) Tour. Rowallan Castle’s Doherty now joins his younger brother Paul on the MENA Tour in coming from two strokes back at the start of the third and final round to win by two with a three under par 69 for a level par total on the Royal Golf El Jadida course in Morocco. Forrest, and a winner twelve months ...

Palm Harbor, FL … Defending champion Charl Schwartzel was confident of taking his place in this year’s event after being hit on the left wrist by a golf ball and forced to withdraw from the Pro-Am 10 holes ahead of this year’s Valspar Championship at the Innisbrook Resort. Schwartzel was struck by one of his amateur partners on the very first hole when the ball bounced off a tree and struck the 2011 Masters champion, causing his wrist to swell and his hand to go numb briefly. The ...

Showing maturity beyond his years, rising Indian star Feroz Singh Garewal fired a tidy two-under 70 to take a share of the lead going into the final stage of the MENA Tour’s Qualifying School at Royal Golf El Jadida in Morocco on Tuesday. The 19-year- old Chandigarh-based golfer, who turned professional in 2015, reeled off three birdies and a bogey to join Spain’s Leonardo Axel Lilja Moyano, who carded a level-par 72, atop the leaderboard on one over par 145. England’s Billy Hemstock, ...

Palm Harbor, FL … Graeme McDowell has an easy answer if he doesn’t qualify for next fortnight’s WGC – Dell Match Play Championship:  “I’ll go and play in Puerto Rico!”. McDowell is under increasing pressure heading into this week’s Valspar Championship to jump the 23 spots and get himself back inside the top-64 on the World Rankings if he’s to qualify for the March 22nd starting event in Austin, Texas. Cut off point for the Match-Play is this Sunday night. The current World ...