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European Tour’s restructured 2020 schedule may be “a glimpse into the future”, says chief executive Keith Pelley

May 29 2020

The British Masters, last held at Close House in 2017, will relaunch the European Tour in July.

United fans have always backed their team.

JIM SPENCE: Dundee United supporters must rally to give their club a transfer market boost

May 29 2020

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England's Eoin Morgan is feeling the benefit of the lockdown break.

EVE MUIRHEAD: Eoin Morgan is right – this break can be a good thing for athletes

May 29 2020

Rangers and Celtic fans taunt each other.

JIM SPENCE: Scottish football’s fading product doesn’t need tinkering with – it needs a radical shake-up

May 22 2020

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The Olympic stadium at Tokyo.

EVE MUIRHEAD: Stripping back the Olympic Games is no bad thing in the long run

May 22 2020

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The British Masters, last held at Close House in 2017, will relaunch the European Tour in July.

European Tour’s restructured 2020 schedule may be “a glimpse into the future”, says chief executive Keith Pelley

May 29 2020

Golf tourism is worth an estimated £270 million to the Scottish economy.

Whole Scottish golf tourism summer season could be lost, claim operators in plea to First Minister

May 27 2020

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David Snodgrass follows Graeme Lennie as Crail GS’s second-ever pro

May 26 2020

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Hardy fans in the rain during the final round of the Aberdeen Standard Investment Ladies Scottish Open 2018 at Gullane Golf Club, Gullane. Picture by Kevin Murray
29/07/2018., Ladies Scottish Open, Aberdeen Standard Investments - 29 Jul 2018

TEE TO GREEN, STEVE SCOTT: Fans not strictly necessary at golf?

May 26 2020

The British Masters, last held at Close House in 2017, will relaunch the European Tour in July.

European Tour to relaunch without fans in July at five ’emergency’ tournaments

May 22 2020

Founder Don Snyder pictured at the Duke's Course, St Andrews, in February

‘Terribly depressed’ ex-soldiers fear Fife golf caddying season will ‘vanish’ amid coronavirus lockdown uncertainty

May 22 2020

Martin Gilbert of Aberdeen Standard Investments has been Scottish Golf's primary benefactor for nearly 20 years.
Chief Executive of Aberdeen Asset Management, Martin Gilbert.

Picture by KENNY ELRICK 21/01/2010 .

Martin Gilbert says Aberdeen Standard Investments will stay backing Scottish golf after his retirement

May 20 2020

Scottish golf remains locked down until the end of the month.

Lockdown ‘catastrophic’ for business but a second wave of coronavirus would be worse, says golf operator Stuart Syme

May 19 2020

Cupar Golf Club head greenkeeper Gary Douglas hard at work

Coronavirus: ‘Redundancies and closures’ possible as Tayside and Fife golf clubs plot course out of rough times

May 19 2020

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Dustin Johnson left, and Rory McIlroy shake hands on 16th green at the end of a fourball match on the opening day of the 42nd Ryder Cup in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, outside Paris, France. Johnson and McIlroy headline a $3 million charity match for COVID-19 relief that will mark the first live golf on television since the pandemic shut down sports worldwide. The May 17 match will be played at Seminole Golf Club in South Florida
Seminole Match Golf, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France - 28 Sep 2018

TEE TO GREEN, STEVE SCOTT: Elite golf from a safe distance is no fun

May 19 2020

Scottish golf remains locked down until the end of the month.

Green light starts to flicker for golf in Scotland as R&A release £7m relief package

May 18 2020

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Connor Syme donates winning for virtual European Tour win in honour of Dundee community worker Sean Hearn

May 17 2020

Scottish golf remains locked down until the end of the month.

Welsh golf clubs get green light to re-open next week but Scottish clubs remain locked down

May 12 2020

The 18th green of Rosemount and the Blairgowrie clubhouse.

EXCLUSIVE: Blairgowrie Golf Club decide against coronavirus refunds that would have come at a heavy cost

May 12 2020

Scottish golf remains locked down until the end of the month.

TEE TO GREEN, STEVE SCOTT: A clumsy Covid-19 muddle…decision south of the border has put considerable pressure on Scottish Golf and bodies in other devolved nations

May 12 2020

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Scottish Golf re-iterate that golf north of the border is still out of bounds

May 11 2020

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Scottish Golf warns clubs against re-opening before lockdown restrictions are lifted

May 8 2020

Graham Low (l) in his usual garb on the Old Course.

Graham Low switches his St Andrews Links caddie’s bib for PPE on the NHS frontline

May 7 2020

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Royal and Ancient captain to serve a second year for only the second time in club’s history

May 6 2020

Golf tourism is worth an estimated £270 million to the Scottish economy.

TEE TO GREEN, STEVE SCOTT: Golfers tantrumming about the lockdown is an dreadful look

May 5 2020

Graham Proctor, founder and CEO of St Andrews Legacy, overlooks the Old Course holding an Inukshuk, an Inuit symbol of unity and purpose, presented to him by Soldier On Canada at the launch of St Andrews Legacy in July 2013.

Obituary: ‘Gentle giant’ and St Andrews Legacy military golf charity founder Graham Proctor dies from MND aged 54

May 4 2020

An eye-catching NHS tribute at Blairgowrie - and clubs like Thornton are also doing their bit.

Golf preparing to play again but only under strict social-distancing

April 30 2020

Scottish Golf needs to focus on primary activities like the Scottish Amateur Championship, won by George Burns at Crail in 2019.

TEE TO GREEN, STEVE SCOTT: Scottish Golf has lost its core values

April 28 2020

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Scottish Golf to refund club subscriptions by just a quarter in new support package

April 27 2020

Scottish Golf chief executive Andrew McKinlay quit last week.

Eleanor Cannon refuses to comment on “rebellion” of member clubs as governing body reels from media criticism

April 26 2020

Andrew McKinlay.

Embattled Scottish Golf put Karin Sharp in charge as fallout from the coronavirus shutdown continues

April 22 2020

Former Scottish Golf CEO Andrew McKinlay.

Scottish Golf chief executive Andrew McKinlay out as governing body faces ‘difficult’ financial decisions

April 21 2020

KOHLER, WISCONSIN - OCTOBER 1: European Team Captain, Padraig Harrington (R) and United States Team Captain, Steve Stricker pose for a photo with the Ryder Cup trophy during the Ryder Cup Year To Go Celebration at Whistling Straits Golf Course on October 1, 2019 in Kohler, Wisconsin. (Photo by Montana Pritchard/The PGA of America via Getty Images)

TEE TO GREEN, STEVE SCOTT: The Ryder Cup – and any sport – is soulless without fans

April 21 2020

St Andrews Links caddie manager Fraser Riddler on the bag.

Caddie manager raising funds for struggling St Andrews Links caddies

April 17 2020

Rory McIlroy at Renaissance at last year's Scottish Open.

ASI Scottish Open set to be part of European Tour’s “salvage schedule” after July postponement

April 17 2020

European Tour chief executive Keith Pelley.

European Tour chief executive Keith Pelley gives sobering message to members of slashed prizefunds due to coronavirus shutdown

April 15 2020

Open infrastructure had begun to arrive at Royal St George's before the 2020 Open was cancelled last week.

TEE TO GREEN, STEVE SCOTT: The PGA Tour’s new schedule is just a rainbow drawing for golf

April 14 2020

Gayfield.

EXCLUSIVE: From Augusta to Arbroath…Sky Sports commentator has had to put his return to Gayfield on hold

April 11 2020

Magnolia Lane, Augusta.

R&A were right about The Open and other three majors should be cancelled as well says Ewen Murray of Sky Sports

April 11 2020

George Burns won the Scottish Amateur last year at Crail.

Scottish Golf scrap entire programme of events and development for 2020 because of coronavirus

April 9 2020

Kelsey MacDonald had her best-ever finish on the Ladies European Tour just before lockdown started.

Kelsey MacDonald relieved for what might have been rather than frustrated by golfing break

April 9 2020

Marc Warren is ready to make a return after a prolonged break from competitive golf.

Marc Warren hopes prolonged break from golf will spark his return to title-winning form

April 7 2020

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Seve Ballesteros Seve Ballesteros of Spain, left, is helped with his Masters green jacket by the previous year's winner, Fuzzy Zoeller, right, after winning the 1980 Masters, in Augusta, Ga. Ballesteros had a 10-shot lead going to the back nine in the 1980 Masters before throwing away shots. His six-shot win was one of the most dominant Masters victories
Masters Five Blowouts Golf, Augusta, USA

TEE TO GREEN, STEVE SCOTT: The Masters and remembering when Seve Ballesteros changed everything

April 7 2020

Shane Lowry was scheduled to defend the Claret Jug in July.

The Open cancelled for the first time since WW2 due to coronavirus

April 6 2020

European skipper Catriona Matthew wouldn't have a problem with a Solheim Cup delay.

Catriona Matthew would be ‘amazed’ if all golf’s majors get played in 2020 due to coronavirus

April 3 2020

Paul Lawrie.

Golf and all sports are secondary and have no choice but to wait out the pandemic, believes Paul Lawrie

April 2 2020

Shane Lowry was crowned Open champion at Royal Portrush last year

STEVE SCOTT: The Open should be played if it is at all possible, insured or not

April 2 2020

Shane Lowry was scheduled to defend the Claret Jug in July.

R&A still looking at Open ‘postponement’, no mention of rumoured cancellation

April 2 2020

The Amateur at Royal Birkdale has been provisionally rescheduled for August from June.

Amateur moves provisionally to August and Curtis Cup to 2021 as R&A postpone key events due to coronavirus

April 1 2020

Robert MacIntyre and caddie Greg Milne are on an enforced break.

Coronavirus: Lockdown may help Robert MacIntyre’s career but it could damage his beloved home club

March 31 2020

Letham Grange.

TEE TO GREEN, STEVE SCOTT: The ‘inevitable’ cull may finally be here as lockdown pushes golf clubs close to the edge

March 31 2020

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Colin Montgomerie of Scotland Hits His Second Shot On the Ninth Hole During the Final Day of the Us Open Golf Championship at Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck New York Sunday 18 June 2006
Usa Golf Us Open - Jun 2006

US Open, R&A’s spring meeting both postponed due to coronavirus

March 27 2020

The Old Course at St Andrews

Golf: St Andrews Links and St Rule Trophies cancelled for 2020 in light of the coronavirus outbreak

March 26 2020

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Sutton Coldfield United Kingdom : European Team Captain Sam Torrance (c) Hold the Ryder Cup As His Team Surrounds Him After They Won the 34th Ryder Cup 29 September 2002 on the Brabazon Course at the Belfry in Sutton Coldfield England the Europeans Won the Ryder Cup15 1/2 To12 1/2
VARIOUS - Sep 2002

TEE TO GREEN, STEVE SCOTT: Delaying the Ryder Cup for a year makes sense even if sport restarts by September

March 24 2020

St Andrews Links was among the first to close all operations after the new restrictions.

Golf shuts down completely as new restrictions take effect in wake of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s address to the nation

March 24 2020