Team USA opened a 4-1 lead over the International team on day one of the Presidents Cup at Quail Hollow in North Carolina. The US have won the past eight renewals of Ryder Cup-style team match event against a team comprised of players from the rest of the world outside Europe. “We’re going to keep fighting,” said International captain Trevor Immelman, whose team has been heavily depleted by the absence of players that have joined the LIV Golf Series who […]
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Fifty members of LIV Golf, the Saudi-backed tour which launched in June, have jointly issued a signed statement requesting that LIV Golf tournaments earn points towards the Official World Golf Ranking. As things currently stand, LIV Golf tournaments do not qualify for ranking points, meaning that players who have only taken part in LIV Golf events since its launch are slipping down the world rankings, leaving some in danger of missing out on qualifying for the Majors and the Olympics. […]
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Danny Willett three-putted the 18th green from inside four feet after watching Max Homa hole a chip as the 34-year-old Yorkshireman missed out on the PGA Tour’s Fortinet Championship title by a shot. Willett was a stroke ahead of the defending champion and looked set to win as he lay three feet from the pin while the American faced a tough chip. But Homa chipped in for birdie, meaning the ex-Masters champion now needed to hole his birdie putt to win. Willett […]
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Playing in only his second LIV Golf event, reigning Open Champion Cameron Smith proved that he is arguably the hottest player in world golf right now following a three-shot win at the series’ fifth tournament held at Rich Harvest Farms in Chicago. The 29-year-old Australian, who had already won three times this year, said he felt immense pressure to prove to everyone that just because he had switched to a tour that had no cut and guaranteed prize money for […]
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Scotland’s Bob MacIntyre beat US Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick in a play-off to win the Italian Open after a tense final day at at Marco Simone Golf & Country Club, venue for next year’s Ryder Cup. The 26-year-old, whose only other European Tour win came in Cyprus in 2020, started the final day three strokes off the lead, which was held by Fitzpatrick, but raced into contention as he cleared the front nine in six under par. He carded four […]
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