Play at the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth was suspended late on Thursday following the announcement that Queen Elizabeth II had passed away earlier in the day As a mark of respect, no play will take place on Friday, with the DP World Tour to make a decision later today on how the rest of the tournament will be played out. The most likely option would be to cut the tournament to just three rounds, as the shorter autumn days […]
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The DP World Tour has announced the creation of a new team match play event aimed at giving European players experience in the format ahead of potential future Ryder Cup appearances. Two 10-man teams comprising players from Great Britain & Ireland and Continental Europe will be selected by European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald, with the event taking place at Abu Dhabi Golf Club from January 13-15, 2023. Donald will work with both teams in Abu Dhabi and will keep […]
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Herb Kohler, the owner of Whistling Straits, Blackwolf Run and the Old Course Hotel in Scotland, has died at the age of 83. Kohler was executive chairman of the family-run Kohler Company, one of the world’s largest plumbing businesses which was based in Wisconsin, USA. Kohler joined the company that was set up in 1873 by his grandfather, Michael Kohler, as a R&D technician in the 1960s, working his way up the business to become CEO in 1974, a post […]
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Dustin Johnson holed an eagle putt at the first play-off hole to win the LIV Golf International in Boston and land the first prize of $4m. The two-time major winner beat Chile’s Joaquin Niemann and India’s Anirban Lahiri in a three-way play-off after they all finished the 54-hole tournament on 15 under par. Lee Westwood fired an 8-under 62 in the final round, the lowest round in LIV Golf history, but he bogeyed his last hole to miss the play-off by […]
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Oliver Wilson claimed an emotional second DP World Tour victory at Made in HimmerLand after the Englishman put on a stunning display down the stretch to overcome Ewen Ferguson by a shot. It was a dramatic finale in Denmark and it was Wilson who provided most of the fireworks, which began with a monster birdie putt which found the cup at the 13th, before his chip at the 14th horse-shoed around the cup to just miss out on a second successive […]
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