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Austin, TX … In one of the more emotional off-course scenes in many a decade Jason Day had tears streaming down his face in revealing he has withdrawn from the defence of his WGC – Dell Match-Play Championship after revealing his mother is to undergo life-saving lung cancer surgery on Friday. Day’s father, Alvin, was Australian, and Dening was born in the Philippines before they moved to Australia in the early 1980s. At first it was thought Day had withdrawn after six holes in ...

World No. 2 Rory McIlroy was left stunned after being being toppled 2 & 1 by pint-size Dane Soren Kjeldsen on the opening day of the WGC – Dell Match-Play Championship in Texas. McIlroy had been ahead just twice in his match against the 60th seeded Kjeldsen before losing the 16th and 17th holes to birdies by his opponent. McIlroy now needs to defeat American Gary Woodland in today’s (THUR) second round robin encounter to boost hopes of winning through to the final 16 in the $US 9.75m event ...

Austin, TX … Former Irish Open winner Soren Kjeldsen is quietly confident of upsetting hot favourite Rory McIlroy in today’s (WED) WGC – Dell Match-Play opener in Austin, Texas. The quietly-spoken Dane had the Irish Open trophy handed to him by McIlroy, as the tournament host, two years at Royal County Down. However, there will be no love lost later between the No. 2 seed and the 60th seed Kjeldsen on the Austin Country Club laid out the banks of the Colorado River that cuts through the ...

Austin, TX … After an agonising 10 month search Russell Knox reckons he’s finally found a user-friendly driver heading into today’s opening match (WED) in the WGC – Dell Match-Play Championship in Austin, Texas. Knox cracked the face of his driver at last year’s Irish Open and in an event he pushed tournament host Rory McIlroy over the final round before settling for second behind McIlroy. Since then Scotland’s top-ranked golfer has beaten a virtual path to the equipment ...

Austin, TX … For Jason Day it’s going to be a week of video games, Mountain Dew, pizzas and hopefully also a successful defence of his WGC – Dell Match-Play Championship in Austin, Texas. Day is spending the week at the home of good friend, Nick Watney and the Aussie summed-up the likely scenario each night in returning to the Watney’s residence. The American did not qualify for this week’s $US 9.75m event by virtue of his 284th World Ranking but that’s not going to stop the ...

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 ...