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The world is your oyster for ugly trophies
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Tom English: ‘For Tiger Woods to scoff at what he perceives as somebody trying to make money is truly ironic’
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Douglas Connon insists he’s kept SGU on course
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Tom English: ‘Trump will either win you over.... or run you over’
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Martin Dempster: Colin Montgomerie facing the pivotal month of a stellar career
Interview: Oliver Wilson, golfer
OVER the seven seasons that Oliver Wilson has been a professional golfer, the 31-year old Englishman has done rather well in the game.
Stephen Gallacher moves into top gear after winning car
STEPHEN Gallacher moved into joint second place after Rory McIlroy and Thomas Bjorn opened the door to the chasing pack at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic yesterday.
Thomas Bjorn joins the elite in desert battle
THOMAS Bjorn issued a timely reminder of what happened five months ago after joining Rory McIlroy in the halfway lead at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic yesterday.
Dustin Johnson gets revenge on hole that ruined US Open bid
DUSTIN Johnson took revenge on the hole that cost him so badly two years ago with an eagle at the third, as he carded a nine-under 63 to grab a share of the first-round lead in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.
Briefs: Unlucky seven for Ross Kellett in Morocco
ALPS TOUR: A triple-bogey seven at the seventh hole killed off Ross Kellett’s hopes in the Palmeraie Open in Morocco.
Golf news in brief: Kellett challenges for debut victory | Byrne scrambles to stay one off lead | Fifers bid to keep in touch at Glendower | Henry signs off as top Scot in Spain
The latest golf news from around the world.
Golf: Scots duo find top gear in Dubai
SCOTT Jamieson made a welcome return to form and Stephen Gallacher won a car worth £60,000 – for only the second hole-in-one of his professional career – in an eventful opening round for the Scottish contingent in the Omega Dubai Desert Classic.
Golf: Promising start for Tiger Woods
TIGER Woods made a confident start to his 2012 PGA Tour campaign, mixing three birdies with a lone bogey in his first nine holes at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am last night.
Changing room chat: Padraig Harrington teams up with McManus
THIS week’s Pebble Beach National Pro-Am is America’s answer to Scotland’s Dunhill Links Championship – an event which throws top golfers and celebrities into competition together.
Golf: Janice Moodie shows promise in Australia
JANICE Moodie, the sole Scot in the field, is only four shots off the lead after making an encouraging start in the ISPS Handa Women’s Australian Open at Royal Melbourne.
Golf: Kingsknowe favourites to seal last spot
ONLY one spot remains to be filled in the semi-finals of the West Edinburgh Winter League, with Baberton, Turnhouse and Royal Burgess all already through to the last four.
Golf news in brief: Kellett off to good start | Poor second day for Scots at Glendower | Henderson battles into contention
The latest golf news from around the globe
Woods ‘not a fan’ and wants action taken over long putters
Tiger Woods has a solution to long putters – make them no longer than the shortest club in the bag.
Golf: SGU selection policy will ‘stop old pals’ acts’
ALLYN DICK, who was bitterly unhappy at losing his place in last year’s Home Internationals team, has welcomed the Scottish Golf Union’s decision to formalise its selection policy.
Alps Tour is first to ban smoking
THE first smoking ban imposed on any professional or amateur golf circuit in the world has been enforced on the third-tier Alps Tour.
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Golf: Rory McIlroy takes a mature approach
worLD No 2 Rory McIlroy says a more mature approach to his game can help him add to his trophy haul when he makes his seventh straight appearance at the Dubai Desert Classic today.
Golf: Spots in Eden Trophy and Craw’s Nest Tassie go in record time
THE lasting popularity of two long-standing amateur tournaments staged on some of Scotland’s top links courses has been highlighted by the prized places in this year’s events being snapped up in record time.
Golf: Laurie is the Main man . .
LAURIE MAIN won the bragging rights in a battle of the brothers as Gullane pipped North Berwick to secure a semi-final spot in the inaugural East Lothian Winter Golf Cup.
Changing room chat: Lee Westwood: I swear it just slipped out
LEE Westwood has apologised after his mum heard him swearing on live television at last week’s Qatar Masters.
Golf: Crichton opens with 69
ABERDOUR’S Scott Crichton was the top Scot in the opening round of the South African Stroke-Play Championship at Glendower.
Golf: Andrew Coltart claims Paul Lawrie’s resurgence will boost all levels of Scottish golf
PAUL Lawrie’s current purple patch, which has seen him chalk up a seventh title triumph, record four top-10 finishes for the first time in his career and burst back into the world’s top 50, will have a positive effect from the grass-roots up to the top of the tree in Scottish golf, according to one of his former Ryder Cup team-mates.
3 commentsGolf: Ruling bodies show stomach for fight over belly putters
THE R&A has confirmed the use of belly putters has “come to the fore again” in its discussions with the USGA, golf’s other governing body, over the shaping of the game’s future.
3 commentsWoods: My kids want to see me on TV
Tiger Woods has revealed a new incentive as he tries to climb back to the top – his children want to see him on television.
Scots team selections ‘formalised’
THE days of selectors sitting down with a blank piece of paper to pick Scottish golf teams are over after the SGU announced a “formalisation” of its selection process.
Golf: Kay looks for head start in South Africa
DUNBAR’S Danny Kay is hoping some work with a top sports psychologist will pay dividends in this week’s South African Stroke-Play Championship.
Gallacher backs Lawrie for Ryder spot
BERNARD Gallacher, the three-time Ryder Cup captain, reckons Paul Lawrie is “too good” to have only played once in the biennial match against the Americans and is confident the former Open champion can use his flying start to the season to bridge a 13-year gap by getting back on the European team this autumn.
3 commentsSenior dates announced
TWO Scottish stops, one of them at Turnberry for the £1.6 million Senior Open Championship, are included on the newly-announced 2012 European Senior Tour schedule.
White happy to put pro career on hold for now
JAMES White, last year’s Scottish Order of Merit winner, believes he’d have been foolish to turn professional without a card in his hand and is aiming to make the most of the globe-trotting opportunities in modern-day amateur golf until that changes.
Stirling group on song
STIRLING University players rounded off a successful pre-season trip to Abu Dhabi by dominating the Yas Links Amateur Championship.
Paul Lawrie rejoins world’s top 50 with triumph in Doha
PAUL LAWRIE is back in the world’s top 50 for the first time since 2003 after a flawless performance gave him a second Qatar Masters title today.
2 commentsAustralian Ladies Masters golf: Boeljon pips Ryu for title in Australia
CHRISTEL Boeljon of the Netherlands came from three strokes behind overnight leader So Yeon Ryu to claim a one-shot victory at the Gold Coast RACV Australian Ladies Masters.
Phoenix Open golf: Levin six shots clear in Arizona
LITTLE-known American Spencer Levin held his nerve over the tricky closing stretch to move six shots clear after the third round of the frost-delayed Phoenix Open in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Golf: Paul Lawrie back in world top 50 after second win in Qatar
PAUL Lawrie may have been a tad embarrassed to hear he’d been likened to Nick Faldo in his prime but the Aberdonian certainly produced a final-day performance the six-time major champion would have been proud of in winning the Qatar Masters for a second time yesterday.
Interview: Graeme McDowell, golfer and US Open champion
Graeme McDowell’s 2010 achievements weighed heavily last year, he confesses to John Huggan
Ladies’ golf: Scotland’s Kylie Walker rises up leaderboard
SCOTLAND’S Kylie Walker shot a superb 66 on the third day of the Australian Ladies Masters to rise up the leaderboard to a tie for 16th.
Qatar Masters Golf: In-form Paul Lawrie hits the front in Qatar
PAUL Lawrie is looking to bridge a 13-year gap as he goes into the final round of the Commercialbank Qatar Masters with a one-stroke lead.
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Qatar field blown off course as event reduced to 54 holes
GUSTS of 35mph meant less than three hours’ play was possible on the second day of the Commercialbank Qatar Masters in Doha – and the second leg of the European Tour’s Middle East swing has now been cut to 54 holes.
Golf briefs: Ryu So-yeon shoots 61 to take four-shot lead
LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR: US Open champion Ryu So-yeon fired a stunning 11-under-par round of 61 to take a four-shot lead at the midway point of the Australian Ladies Masters on the Gold Coast yesterday.
Walker leads Scots trio’s challenge
LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR: Scottish trio Kylie Walker, Vikki Laing and Clare Queen had mixed bags in the first round of the Gold Coast RACV Australian Ladies Masters at RACV Royal Pines Resort in Queensland. Walker was tied for 40th after a one-under-par 71, while Laing and Queen both carded 72s. South Korea’s Bo-Mee Lee set the pace with a seven-under 65, ending the day a stroke ahead of compatriots So Yeon Ryu and Hee Kyung Seo, as well as Christel Boeljon from the Netherlands.
Burgoyne passes at school for over–50s
EUROPEAN SENIOR TOUR QUALIFYING SCHOOL: Terry Burgoyne, who was based in Sweden for more than 20 years but is now attached to Glencruitten near Oban, has regained his card for the over-50s circuit. Fifteenth a year ago, Burgoyne improved on that by seuring the ninth-placed card after closing with a 73 for a level-par total of 284 at Pestana in Portugal. The Scot, who is 53 today, was among 18 players to gain cards for the 2012 season, with American Dick Mast capping a superb performance by finishing seven shots clear of the field in top spot with a 14-under total of 270. Englishman Glenn Ralph, a former Scottish Seniors Open champion, also secured a card, as did former PGA Tour winner Mike Donald. Carnoustie’s Lindsay Mann, the only other Scot to make the third-round cut, finished tied for 40th after a 75 for 293.
Byrne struggles late on as he shoots 70
ASIAN TOUR: Banchory’s James Byrne was left to rue a poor finish as he opened with a two-under-par 70 in the Myanmar Open – the rookie professional’s first event on the circuit. The Walker Cup player, who started at the tenth, was out in three-under 33 and started for home with his fourth birdie of the day at the first.
The Amateur will return to Portrush after a 20-year gap
THE R&A has insisted its decision to take the Amateur Championship back to Royal Portrush after a gap of 20 years is not part of a masterplan that could also see the Open Championship return to the Northern Ireland links.
Lawrie poised for another good event after weathering storm
THE sand whipped up by a desert storm may have been troublesome but on-form Scot Paul Lawrie felt right at home in the windy conditions during the opening round of the Qatar Masters.
Stanley refuses to be down over painful loss
Kyle Stanley didn’t contemplate pulling out of this week’s Phoenix Open at the TPC Scottsdale even after his agonising loss at San Diego last week.
Carrickvale enjoy revenge victory over Silverknowes
CARRICKVALE claimed quick revenge by winning at Silverknowes to reverse the previous week’s result in the Edinburgh Municipal Clubs’ Winter League.
Jack Nicklaus adds shine to Gleneagles’ 18th
GOLFING legend Jack Nicklaus has insisted the changes he has suggested to the much-maligned 18th on the PGA Centenary Course at Gleneagles will make it a “more exciting finishing hole and a better setting for spectators” at the 2014 Ryder Cup.
3 commentsBurgoyne and Mann face final–day fight
EUROPEAN SENIOR TOUR QUALIFYING SCHOOL: Glencruitten’s Terry Burgoyne and Lindsay Mann from Carnoustie are the only Scots still standing heading into the final round in the race for cards at Pestana in Portugal.
Byrne told Asia can be passport to Europe
JAMES Byrne, who makes his full Asian Tour debut today in the first round of the Myanmar Open, has been told that the circuit is the perfect stepping stone to the European Tour.
Scottish trio take on top teenagers
LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR: Three Scots – Kylie Walker, Vikki Laing and Clare Queen – have travelled to Queensland to tee off their 2012 campaign in this week’s Gold Coast RACV Australian Ladies Masters. Walker will be looking to build on her top-50 finish on the LET money-list last season – Laing was 59th – while Queen’s confidence for the new campaign will have been boosted by her successful return to the Qualifying School.
Munro claims his third winter win
NORTH-EAST ALLIANCE: Robert Gordon University student Gordon Munro scored his third win on the 2011-2012 circuit with a par-matching 64 at Newburgh.
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