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Only one amateur from the UK has ever made the halfway cut at the Masters and Peter McEvoy, with a disarming sense of candour, is rather hoping it stays that way. To the charge of grumpy old golfer, he happily pleads guilty. Nobody can fault me for honesty, says the Midlander, who dominated the amateur scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and played all four rounds at Augusta in 1978. Each year, McEvoy takes a keen interest in the winner of the Amateur Championship, and his considerable per...

In shinty or in golf, Robert MacIntyre shows plenty of fight By DOUG FERGUSONApril 5, 2021 GMT AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Robert MacIntyre was 12 tournaments into his rookie season on the European Tour when he wanted to go home to Scotland, a surprise only because of his blue-collar nature to never shy away from a fight. He was lonely on the road. He was 22 and felt like he had to carry himself like a “seasoned campaigner.” MacIntyre was losing the joy of sport. Back home in Oban, a tiny coastal...

Friday, 02 Apr 2021 11:35 AM MYT By Billy Horschel APRIL 2 — It’s really cool to finally be a World Golf Championship winner. Its been a lot of hard work put into the game from my entire team and the results have taken a little bit longer to show up, so its just amazing to have won the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play title last weekend. When I think about it, I wish this would have happened sooner but you just never know when youre going to win again in this game. You just keep working har...

Oklahomas Quade Cummins was in shock over Walker Cup selection Being on the Sooners national championship team in 2017 "gave us the taste of the good stuff" Author: When Oklahoma senior Quade Cummins learned he was the first Sooner in 16 years to make the Walker Cup team, he actually had to tap the brakes emotionally. He said shortly after OU finished a disappointing third at the Seminole Intercollegiate in Tallahassee, FL, in mid-February, he learned he had missed a call from USGA president ...

THE FLATS –Georgia Tech has a representative on the United States team for the Walker Cup for the second straight time as senior 2020 U.S. Amateur champion Tyler Strafaci was officially named Monday along with the rest of the 2021 American team by the United States Golf Association. The USA Team will meet Great Britain and Ireland in the 48th Match at Seminole Golf Club, in Juno Beach, Fla., Saturday and Sunday, May 8-9. It will be the first time the competition has been held in the spring o...

News Thursday, February 25, 2021 Royal Aberdeen Golf Club will provide the setting for the 2021 Scottish Senior Open hosted by Paul Lawrie, when the Legends Tour returns to the venue for the first time in 26 years from September 10-12, 2021. The 2021 Scottish Senior Open marks professional golf’s return to Balgownie Links – one of two courses at Royal Aberdeen - after it hosted the first three editions of the Scottish Senior Open from 1993-1995, The 200...

News Friday, February 19, 2021 Oli Fisher has set plenty of age-related milestones. Two weeks ago, he discreetly ticked off another as the youngest player to reach 400 events in European Tour history. One milestone at a time, Oli Fisher is quietly, but assuredly, making history on the European Tour. Fisher is likely best known for the historic moment that saw him become the first player to record a 59 on the European Tour, which he achieved during the second roun...

Brandon who? Wu on brink of breakthrough By CHUAH CHOO CHIANG | China Daily | Updated: 2021-02-11 08:00 Share CLOSE Brandon Wu plays a shot on the 18th hole during the final round of the Orange County National Championship at Orange County National Golf Club on October 11, 2020 in Orlando, Florida. [Photo/Agencies] Chinese-American eyeing PGA Tour card after challenging 2020 All the talk on golfs Class of 2019 has so far centered around...

The ball was sitting in a pot bunker. Hunter Stewart was standing outside of it. It was a textbook example of the awkward lies that can occur on the links courses of Great Britain & Ireland. Stewart hadn’t hit the ball there, but it was his job to extricate it. Maverick McNealy struck the tee shot that wound up in this trap. It was on the first hole of their first match of the Walker Cup, a competition that pits the United States’ best amateurs against their peers from GB&I. “Brutal” is...

January 27, 2021, 11:16 am Sergio Garcia (top row, third from left) became the top points-scorer in the Ryder Cup in 2018 (David Davies/PA) Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Sergio Garcia is eager to qualify for September’s Ryder Cup as he looks to add to his record points tally against the United States. Garcia surpa...