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La Quinta Resort, Palm Springs, CA  Patrick Reed was the standout star among the victorious Americans at last year’s Ryder Cup. And while he will target a second straight appearance later this year in the Presidents Cup, the New Year for the Texan is all about victory in the four Majors. Reed tees-up in this week’s Career Builder Challenge as one of the favourites in the $US 6.1m field having won the event last year while it was just over four years ago, and with his wife on the bag, ...

A special report by Suzanne Kemper A little over year ago the golf world was taken aback – particularly Spain and Germany, when the calls came announcing the 2022 winner – Rome’s Marco Simone Golf and Country Club owned by the fashion legend Laura Biagiotti and managed by her dynamic, attractive daughter, Lavinia Biagiotti Cigna. Amazing, shocking…but clearly the Italians lead by Lavinia Cigna’s fashion, sport “dream“ team from Marco Simone (plus Italian Golf Federation’s ...

Henrik Stenson has now added the prestigious award of Male Sports Athlete of the Year to his AGW Golfer of the Year and European Tour Golfer of the Year accolades. Stenson accepted his latest honour for his achievements in 2016 at the Swedish Sports Awards. The 40 year old, who gets his 2017 season underway at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship on Thursday, was honoured at a ceremony in Stockholm on Monday night, picking up the top award for the second time in three years. He also became the first ...

Rory McIlroy has now paid a big price for an ‘excessive’ off-season training routine with what is, in fact, a stress fracture of a rib that naturally has ruled him out of this week’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. The World No. 2 underwent extensive clinical examinations, including an MRI, on Monday in Dubai after clearly struggling with injury, and thought to be a upper back complaint, on route to losing a play-off in last week’s BMW South African Open. “It’s bitterly disappointing to ...

Thama Jeffrey Nkonyane collected the biggest cheque of his 32-year long career in helping England’s Graeme Storm to victory in the BMW SA Open. The Englishman ended a seven-year winless drought in humbling World No. 2 Rory McIlroy with victory at the third extra play-off hole on the Glendower course. Storm might have weathered the onslaught of the world’s number two player, but a tsunami is about to hit Nkonyane’s bank account after the 37-year-old Storm pocketed R2.3 million ($US ...

Justin Thomas won the 2017 PGA Tour ‘Hawaiian Swing’ double smashing the  72-hole score in PGA TOUR history. Thomas capped off his wonderful week at Waialae that began with a 59 but on the par 70 layout and ended when the American calmly two-putted birdie from 60 feet on the par-5 18th and closed with a 5-under 65 to set the record at 253. Tommy Armour III shot 254 at the 2003 Texas Open, and also on a par 70 layout and with Armour also storming to a seven-shot triumph. “It’s ...

Rory McIlroy will undergo an MRI on his injured back after the pain of letting slip a play-off victory in the BMW South African Open. McIlroy was intending having the scan on his back Monday – Dubai time ahead of teeing-up in this week’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. But the injury to his upper back was not near as painful when he stunned a huge following in three-putting the third extra play-off hole for bogey and hand England’s Graeme Storm only his second Tour victory since capturing the ...