Graeme McDowell goes into today’s first round contest against Sweden’s Robert Karlsson in the Volvo World Match Play Championship at Finca Cortesin near Estepona in Southern Spain hopeful that a change from the regular diet of stroke play to head-to-head confrontations will provide the kick start that his career badly needs.
All-American nice guy Matt Kuchar playfully told the media to “suck it” after clinching the US PGA Players Championship and its $1.7 million (€1.3m) winner’s cheque.
They may have been 1989 Irish Boys team-mates but that’s where Pádraig Harrington and Simon Parkhill’s golfing careers took very divergent pathways.
Malahide teenager Gavin Moynihan joined major winners Padraig Harrington and Louis Oosthuizen on the roll of champions when he produced a brilliant short game display and defied near gale force winds to clinch the Irish Amateur Open in dramatic fashion at Royal Dublin.
Ricardo Santos shot a spectacular closing 63 yesterday to give Portugal their first European Tour win for 20 years.
The enigmatic John Daly has confirmed he will take part in this year’s Irish Open at Royal Portrush.
Rory McIlroy again crashed out of the Players Championship, golf’s richest event, at Sawgrass last night.
Kelan McDonagh confessed that golf has been put firmly in perspective by his girlfriend’s brave battle with cancer after he opened with a battling 72 to keep the leaders in his sights in the Irish Amateur Open at Royal Dublin.
It was agony and ecstasy for two of England’s stars at golf’s richest event today.
Colm Moriarty is determined to again remind Irish Open organisers of his credentials during this week’s Madeira Islands Open.
The world number one spot could change for the sixth time in 11 weeks on Sunday — but the Players Championship at Sawgrass is about far more than just that.
Rory McIlroy starts his third spell as world No 1 this week by returning to the event he turned his back on last year.
Next month’s Irish Open has received another major boost with the confirmation that US PGA champion Keegan Bradley will be in the field at Royal Portrush Golf Club.
European captain, Jose Maria Olazabal insists Pádraig Harrington must show form if he is to qualify for the Ryder Cup.
Christy O’Connor Jnr believes Rory McIlroy will ultimately enjoy more success over Rickie Fowler as golf’s next great rivalry takes shape in the coming years.
In the gathering dusk, the players arrived at Skellig Bay Golf Clubin twos and threes to pay their entry fees and collect their scorecards.
Rory McIlroy reclaimed his status as the No 1 golfer in the world at the Wells Fargo Championship on the US PGA Tour at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, North Carolina last night.
Tiger Woods is in danger of missing the cut at the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, but Rory McIlroy’s hopes of winning back the world number one spot remain very much alive.
Rory McIlroy’s selective scheduling hasn’t found favour with everyone this season but figures from the third annual The Sunday Times Sport Rich List would suggest the US Open champion tends to know what he is doing.
Peter Lawrie is not only looking to win the Spanish Open in its centenary year but he is backing a new system to be trialled later this month that could help eradicate slow play.
Rory McIlroy will hope to be inspired by his return to the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow this weekend, the scene of his first victory in America two years ago — achieved with a magical course record of 62 in the final round, after he had almost missed the halfway cut.
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