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LET winner Meghan MacLaren with GolfSixes League team players, at Golf at Goodwood. Picture by  SAM STEPHENSON

MacLaren races home for Golf Foundation Ambassador date

THE Golf Foundation has welcomed Meghan MacLaren as an ambassador for the national golf charity that encourages young people from all backgrounds to benefit from the sport. Meghan’s first assignment was performed with skill and style at Golf At Goodwood on Sunday, as she struck the first official shot to launch the foundation’s national GolfSixes […]

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Europe’s 2021 Ryder Cup captain Padraig Harrington accidentally named Luke Donald as a vice-captain

Harrington cuts Ryder Cup picks to three

EUROPEAN Ryder Cup captain Padraig Harrington has opted to reduce his number of wild cards from four to three when his team defends the trophy at Whistling Straits in 2020. The European Tour has confirmed the qualification period for Europe’s 2020 Ryder Cup team will start at the 2019 BMW PGA Championship – the fourth […]

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Tommy Fleetwood receives the Hero Challenge from chief executive Pawan Munjal (right). Picture by GETTY IMAGES

Fleetwood crowned King of the Docks in Hero Challenge

TOMMY Fleetwood kick-started his Betfred British Masters week with victory in the first Hero Challenge of the 2019 European Tour season, defeating compatriot Matt Wallace in the final at Princes Dock in Liverpool. This year’s British Masters host topped group one and then defeated Ladies European Tour and LPGA star Charley Hull in the semi-final […]

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2019 Volvo China Open winner Mikko Korhonen – the 2020 tournament has been postponed because of the Corona-virus

Cool Korhonen clinches China Open at Hebert’s expense

MIKKO Korhonen claimed the second European Tour title of his career at the 25th anniversary edition of the Volvo China Open. The Finn overcame Frenchman Benjamin Hebert on the first play-off hole after a thrilling finale at Genzon Golf Club. In an intriguing final day tussle, last week’s Trophée Hassan II champion Jorge Campillo, overnight […]

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Esther Henseleit of Germany plays out of the bunker on the 17th at the Omega Dubai Moonlight Classic. Picture by TRISTAN JONES

Rookie Henseleit lights up Dubai Moonlight Cassic

GERMAN rookie Esther Henseleit lit up the Faldo Course at Emirates Golf Club with a sizzling six-under par 66 to share the lead with Spain’s Nuria Iturrios on nine-under after the second round of the Omega Dubai Moonlight Classic. The pair lead by one over Germany’s Olivia Cowan heading into the final round of the […]

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Carryway Reveal Solheim Cup Captains’ Cars

Carryway Reveal Solheim Cup Captains’ Cars Custom-made golf buggies will go on a tour of the UK before the contest at Gleneagles in September Scotland, 3 May 2019 – Carryway, an Official Supplier to The 2019 Solheim Cup, today unveiled the Captains’ Cars, the golf buggies which will be driven by the Team Captains at […]

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Ireland’s  former World No. 1 Amateur golfer – Leona Maguire – made nine birdies after playing the last six holes under the lights on the Faldo Course. Picture by GETTY IMAGES

Maguire makes hay in sunshine and Moonlight in Dubai

LADIES European Tour rookie Leona Maguire shot a course record eight-under-par 64 in round one of the Omega Dubai Moonlight Classic – the world’s first professional day-night golf tournament, played on the Faldo Course at Emirates Golf Club as golf took a leaf out of cricket’s book on opening up to a new group of […]

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UK viewers will be able to watch highlights of the Solheim Cup at Gleneagles on all three days, in September.

BBC will show Solheim Cup highlights every day

THE BBC has agreed a deal with the Ladies European Tour to cover The Solheim Cup when European captain Catriona Matthew and her vice-captain Dame Laura Davies will try to rest the trophy back from the Americans at Gleneagles, in September. A one-hour highlights programme from Gleneagles, in Scotland, will be shown on either BBC […]

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Haotong Li is hoping for a repeat of his Volvo China Open victory of 2016 with the tournament moving back to Genzon GC in Shenzen, after three years at Topwin G&CC. Picture by GETTY IMAGES

Li sets sights on win in 25th Volvo China Open

HAOTONG Li will play in his homeland for the first time since teeing it up alongside Tiger Woods at the Masters Tournament at the 25th Volvo China Open, starting tonight (UK time). The World No. 39 leads the field for the anniversary event having won his national open back in 2016. Li was drawn alongside […]

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PGA Professional Philip Redpath at Ramside Hall Hotel and Golf Club

Ramside Hall Appoints PGA Professional Phil Redpath To Golf Academy

Ramside Hall Appoints PGA Professional Phil Redpath To Golf Academy Class AA PGA Professional Phil Redpath joins Ramside after Arabian Adventure in Dubai and Qatar Ramside Hall Hotel and Golf Club, County Durham’s leading 36 hole golf resort, has appointed PGA Professional Phil Redpath to its academy coaching team. Redpath, from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, joins Ramside after […]

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Tommy Fleetwood is following in Lee Westwood’s footsteps by hosting the British Masters after the Nottinghamshire pro with 10 Ryder Cup appearances took on the duties at Close House, in 2017. Picture by GETTY IMAGES

Westwood backing Fleetwood at British Masters

LEE Westwood will bid for his 25th European Tour victory when he joins tournament host Tommy Fleetwood at Hillside Golf Club next week for the Betfred British Masters. The Englishman, who claimed a Rolex Series title in the Nedbank Golf Challenge last November, is in pursuit of the milestone win, and his second Betfred British […]

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Spain’s Jorge Campillo finally converted for his maiden European Tour win in the Trophee Hassan II. Picture by GETTY IMAGES

Campillo finally gets over the line in Morocco

SPANIARD Jorge Campillo ended an eight-year wait for his first European Tour title as he triumphed at the Trophée Hassan II by two strokes. The Spaniard, playing his 229th event, had previously been a runner-up on six occasions, including two second-place finishes in consecutive weeks last month. But he held his nerve on the formidable […]

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