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Ponte Vedre, FL … Sergio Garcia has returned to competition for this week’s Players Championship but without his Masters winning caddy. The wife of Garcia’s long-time South African-born caddy, Glen Murray has just given birth to the couple’s second child and with Garcia arranging for former Spanish European Tour colleague, Jose Manual Lara to carry his Augusta National winning clubs. Lara, 39 won twice on the European Tour with victory in the 2oo6 Honk Kong Open and the 2o1o Austrian Open. No ...

Double Major winning John Daly ended a 13-year winless drought to capture a maiden Champions Tour title with victory in the Insperity Invitational in Houston, Texas. Daly, 51 has won some smaller events in the intervening period including the 2014 Open in Turkey, but this victory in the northern suburbs of America’s fourth largest city is the first of note since winning the PGA Tour’s 2004 Buick Invitational. Finally he had ended that long drought with victory on The Woodlands where ...

The Aussie team duo of Scott Hend and Sam Brazel could feel proud having finished runner-up in the inaugural European Tour Golf Sixes at the St. Albion club in England. Hend and Brazel were beaten 3 & 1 over the six-hole final by the Danish duo of Thornbjorn Olesen and his teammate Lucas Bjerregaard and after the Aussie duo conceded the closing hole when Brazel, and winner of the UBS Hong Kong Open, missed a putt that may have sent the match into an extra hole. It was the second taste of team ...

Buoyed by their incredible run of success at last week’s MahaSumutre Masters, a strong Thai contingent will be hoping to scale another summit when they tee it up at the MENA Tour’s Mountain Creek Open by Golf Citizen on Monday. Spearheaded by winner Jazz Janewattananond, the home players made a strong statement about the rising standard of the game in the kingdom at Banyan Golf Club, racking up four top-10 finishes in addition to a first in the amateur division, and they will look to keep ...

Denmark are the world team golfing champions after capturing the inaugural Golf Sixes event and some six months after being crowned World Cup winners. The Danish team of Thorbjorn Olesen and countryman Lucas Bjerregaard were conceded victory on the final hole to win 3 & 1 over Australian rivals Scott Hend and Sam Brazel. Olesen had teamed with the leading Danish golfer, Søren Kjeldsen last November in Melbourne, Australia and now he is a double team winner in playing alongside Bjerregaard. The ...

Wilmington, NC … Newest European Tour sensation Jon Rahm says after taking down Sergio Garcia two weeks before his Masters success it is enough inspiration to join Garcia as a Major Champion. The US-based Rahm joined the Tour on the eve of the WGC – Mexico Championship and just days before finishing third in Mexico City. Three weeks later Rahm bravely fought back from being 5 down after just eight holes in the WGC – Dell Match–Play Championship only to lose 1 down to World No. 1 Dustin ...

Wilmington, NC … For five years Billy Hurley 111 was an officer in the US Navy as a lieutenant aboard a guided missile destroyer. However on day two of the Wells Fargo Championship the 34 year old has joint command of the $US 7.5m tournament being staged at Eagle Point course in Wilmington, North Carolina. Hurley 111 grabbed six birdies, including four over his last seven holes, and had three bogeys in a three under par 69 to move to five under before being joined atop of the board by Irishman ...