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Harrington aiming to run for European Ryder Cup captain in 2020

April 24 2018

Carnoustie doesn’t need to change to stay the ultimate challenge, says Harrington

April 24 2018

Links House “perfect” for players at the Open, say R&A

April 24 2018

Costantino Rocca cherishes history but can’t repeat it on the 18th at St Andrews

April 23 2018

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Harrington aiming to run for European Ryder Cup captain in 2020

April 24 2018

Padraig Harrington feels at 2026 Ryder Cup in his native Ireland will be “too late” for him to be captain and will put his hat into the ring for 2020 or 2022.

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Carnoustie doesn’t need to change to stay the ultimate challenge, says Harrington

April 24 2018

Carnoustie is one of the few golf courses that needs “no protection” from modern technology and big-hitting players, believes the last man to win an Open Championship there.

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Links House “perfect” for players at the Open, say R&A

April 24 2018

The £3 million extended Links House, the newly opened golf centre at Carnoustie Links, is the “perfect” facility for golfers at the Open and something the R&A would like to see at all championship venues.

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Costantino Rocca cherishes history but can’t repeat it on the 18th at St Andrews

April 23 2018

You can’t really properly mimic history, especially the outrageous and frankly mad examples that occur too often at the culmination of an Open Championship.

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Impressive Lily-May sweeps past Scots to win Helen Holm Scottish title at Royal Troon

April 22 2018

England’s Lily-May Humphreys surely confirmed her spot in the GB&I Curtis Cup team and kept Scots Shannon McWilliam and Chloe Goadby waiting with a surge to win the Helen Holm Scottish Women’s Strokeplay Championship at Royal Troon yesterday.

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Hannah McCook storms to an early two-stroke advantage in the Helen Holm

April 20 2018

Hannah McCook produced her best performance so far in a top ranking event with a brilliant 67 at Troon Portland yesterday to claim a two-shot lead in the Helen Holm Scottish Women’s Open Championship.

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Tee to Green: World can’t afford Augusta’s pursuit of perfection to be the model

April 17 2018

We’ve all been beguiled by it - for many it’s what first drew us to the game of golf.

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Tee to Green: Much-hyped Masters inevitably a huge anti-climax

April 9 2018

Nothing could live up to the hype of the 2018 Masters. But that didn’t stop everyone trying.

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Schmeucking takes Boys title for Germany as Tynan wins Girls’ for Wales

April 6 2018

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Boys’ and Girls’ Championships delicately poised going into the final day

April 5 2018

Play came to a halt in the darkness at the Scottish Boys Open Championship at Montrose on Thursday with the title chase delicately poised and four players sharing the lead.

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Brutal first day weather for both Boys’ and Girls’ championships

April 4 2018

Survival of the fittest and bravest was the order of a brutal day for the opening rounds of the Scottish Boys’ and Girls’ Open Strokeplay Championships with wintry rain and sleet lashing the Angus coast for both venues.

Paul Lawrie – I can’t wait for the Masters already

March 21 2018

Watching golf on television has never really been Paul Lawrie’s thing – until the last couple of weeks, that is.

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Carly Booth has double Gleneagles goal

March 21 2018

Qualification will be a tall order, but Carly Booth has two Gleneagles dates circled in red on her calendars for this year and next.

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Tee to Green: Tiger’s renaissance a timely lift for golf

March 19 2018

Okay, this is going to be something of a departure from recent editions of T2G. About as opposite as you can imagine, in fact.

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New international event at Gleneagles breaks new ground for equality in golf

March 8 2018

The inaugural European Golf Team Championships at Gleneagles this summer will be a ground breaking event involving mixed teams of players from the men’s and women’s European Tours with equal prizemoney.

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Tee to Green: Keep calm on Tiger, people

February 26 2018

I must be the only person in golf who is actually happy that we have to take a pause this week from the newest contender for The Greatest Golf Story Ever told.

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Some of golf’s top stars are now in almost open defiance of the rules

February 20 2018

Am I missing something? Barely two weeks on from one of the most egregious examples of slow play in professional golf history, they’re actually getting worse.

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Tee to Green: Turnberry still in Open limbo

February 12 2018

Plenty of matters arising from the golf writers’ annual Spring sit-down with R&A chief executive Martin Slumbers yesterday, in the rather impressive Allan Robertson House testing facility at Kingsbarns...

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“Line in the sand” on driving distance in golf has been crossed, say R&A

February 12 2018

The “line in the sand” on distance hitting in golf has been crossed, and new data will show that the issue has to be addressed by all golf’s stakeholders, said R&A chief executive Martin Slumbers.

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R&A won’t drop no re-admission policy for The Open at Carnoustie

February 12 2018

The R&A won’t backtrack on their planned “no readmissions” policy for the Open at Carnoustie but local clubs will be “on site” for the duration of the championship, chief executive Martin Slumbers revealed yesterday.

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St Andrews to host 150th Open Championship in 2021

February 12 2018

The Open is returning to the Home of Golf to celebrate its 150th anniversary. The Old Course in St Andrews will host the event in 2021, which will be played from July 11 to 18.

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Tee to Green: A tipping point at Torrey?

January 29 2018

Almost a year to the day from Jason Day’s infamous “I’ll play as slow as I want and you’ll like it” press conference, we had the perfect illustration of what he meant.

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Bradley Neil believes he will compete with the best in golf

January 26 2018

Bradley Neil celebrated his 22nd birthday only last week but when he sees Jon Rahm tearing up the world of golf he feels impatient to get back to major championship golf.