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If reports are correct Tiger Woods will end a 465-day competition absence this coming Thursday with a golf bag supporting Monster Energy drinks, TaylorMade driver, Nike irons and using a Bridgestone golf ball. Monster Energy is only just behind Red Bull in sales and Woods will debut his new sponsor prominently in his return this week at the Hero World Challenge on the exclusive Albany course near Nassua in the Bahamas. It will be the seventh main sponsor to appear on the bag of the 14-time major ...

For sale – the gleaming Masters trophy won by Arnold Palmer.// // In addition to the famed Augusta National members green jacket, the Masters champion receives a trophy in the shape of Augusta National’s clubhouse. The trophy is 13.5″ wide, 6.5″ tall, and weighs 20 pounds. It wasn’t given out until 1993, but the tournament decided to present the trophies retroactively to all of the event’s winners. The website – www.greenjacketauctions.com – ...

Rory McIlroy heads into 52-day competition break pleased with his season despite an indifferent defence of his DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. McIlroy posted a final round 65 for a 12-under par tally and a share ninth place but signing off his 2016 year with a second poorest result in the all eight years of the event after ending 11th in 2012. The four-time Major winner, who was looking to get back to No. 1 in the world with a repeat Dubai victory, ended his ninth season in the pro-ranks five ...

MATTHEW FITZPATRICK – WITH HIS DP WORLD TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP TRIUMPH • His third European Tour International Schedule victory in his 65th official European Tour event. • Moves to 2,395,787 points in the Race to Dubai. • Could move to inside the top 30 of the Official World Golf Ranking, from 51st. • His second European Tour victory of the 2016 season following the Nordea Masters. • The sixth multiple winner of the 2016 season. They are: Alex Noren (Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish ...

Sweden’s Henrik won a second Race to Dubai and end 2017 as European No. 1 to rightfully declaring the season to be best of his career. The Open champion closed his 16th European Tour season with a seven under par 65 in the DP World Tour Championship, bringing the curtain down on a year in which he became the first Swede to win a major with his triumph at Royal Troon in July and also claimed an Olympic silver medal. Along with victory at Royal Troon, Stenson won the BMW International Open in ...

Matthew Fitzpatrick buried any lingering Hazeltine demons in capturing the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. Fitzpatrick, 22 collected just the third event of his pro career in what proved to be a two-shot turnaround in his favour at the last, when he hole a four-foot birdie while fellow Englishman Tyrrell Hatton, who had been leading by a shot heading to the 18th tee, proceeded to bogey the hole. Fitzpatrick posted a final round 67 for a 17-under par victory tally and one few than ...

Ireland’s Shane Lowry revealed his wife, Wendy is due to give birth to the couple’s first child at the end of February. And Lowry’s hoping that in becoming father he can duplicate Englishman Danny Willett and then go onto to win the Masters in early April. Willett’s wife, Nicole gave birth to a son with just days to spare ahead of the Masters and then with Willett drawing on the inspiration in becoming a father to win the season’s first Major at Augusta National. Now ...