Golf

Paul Lawrie won’t be heading back to the scene of his 1999 British Open triumph at Carnoustie when this year’s edition returns to the Scottish course after announcing Monday that his season was over due to injury. The 49-year-old Scot has been struggling with back and foot problems and he now plans to spend the next few months concentrating on …

The beauty of golf is that there are so many different ways to prevail in the sport. Not dictated purely by physicality, golf has seen a legend in Tom Watson almost win the Open Championship at the age of 59 in 2009, finishing second. Shorter-hitters like Ian Poulter and Francesco Molinari have both won big events this season, the latest victories …

It’s been a storming start to life in the professional ranks for Ireland’s Leona Maguire. Since shedding her amateur status earlier this month along with sister Lisa, Maguire has competed twice, on the main LPGA Tour and the USA’s second tier Symetra Tour. Maguire, considered one of the women’s games’ greatest amateurs, finished 15th in her debut event at the …

A brilliant weekend of sport which saw the last round of the Munster championship, The US Open at Shinnecock Hills and plenty of World Cup action, let’s take a look at the biggest winners and losers from the last couple of days: Winners: Clare Hurlers Another huge victory for Clare hurlers, this time against a much-fancied Limerick, which saw them …

American Brooks Koepka has won his second Major championship at Shinnecock Hills. The brutally tough course caused much drama throughout the week, but in the end, it was last year’s U.S. Open champion who tamed the beast with a final tally of +1. Koepka, who won the event at Erin Hills in 2017, was six shots off the lead after …

England’s Tommy Fleetwood matched the lowest round in US Open history, storming to a seven-under-par 63 to take the clubhouse lead at Shinnecock Hills on Sunday. Fleetwood’s two-over-par total put him one off the lead of defending champion Brooks Koepka after 11 holes of the latter’s round. The 27-year-old from Southport, owner of four European Tour titles, started the day six …

The reaction of some to Phil Mickelson setting the golfing world ablaze with his deliberate rule breaking is one of – who cares? Mickelson was nowhere near contending for the U.S. Open when he scored a sextuple bogey 10 on the 13th hole yesterday, and did exploit a loophole of the sometimes archaic rules of golf when incurring a two shot …

English golfer Ian Poulter aired his frustrations on Twitter early this morning following a difficult third round at the US Open in Shinnecock Hills, New York. Poulter who carded a six-over par round of 76 was one of the many golfers who were upset at the conditions the USGA had set for Shinnecock Hills, making low scoring incredibly hard to …

Dustin Johnson surrendered a four-shot lead in his first six holes and finished the day in a four-way tie for the US Open lead as Shinnecock Hills battered the world’s best golfers on Saturday. World number one Johnson closed with a bogey at the par-four 18th in a seven-over par 77 that left him tied atop the leaderboard at three-over …

A drama-filled Saturday is in progress in the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills. Dustin Johnson had a four-shot lead teeing off, and eight holes later he is +6 for his round, now two shots behind leader Henrik Stenson. The usually mild-mannered Zack Johnson has blasted the difficult set-up, saying: “They’ve lost the golf course. When you’ve a championship which comes down …

Phil Mickelson’s apparent fit of pique led to a sextuple bogey 10 on Saturday as the five-time major winner hit a moving ball with his putter in the third round of the US Open. It was a childish display from a five-time major winner celebrating his 48th birthday. When a putt at the 13th hole at Shinnecock Hills rolled past …

A gutsy birdie-birdie finish wasn’t enough to put Tiger Woods through to the weekend at the US Open, but the US superstar “absolutely” believes he’ll win another major title. Woods, playing the US Open for the first since he missed the cut in an injury-plagued 2015, was clearly heading for an early exit after a bogey at his 15th hole …

Tiger Woods finished with a back-to-back birdies Friday to boost his slim hopes of making the halfway cut at the US Open at Shinnecock Hills. Woods looked certain to miss the US Open cut for just the third time in his career as a bogey at his 15th hole — the par-four sixth — pushed him to 12-over for the …

World number one Dustin Johnson fired two birdies in his first nine holes Friday to edge ahead of the pack at the US Open at Shinnecock Hills. Johnson, one of just four players to emerge from a punishing first round under par, teed off on 10 and picked up shots with birdies at the 11th and 16th to move to …

We have another packed weekend of excellent sporting action coming up so let’s take a look at what’s ahead and what you should be tuning in to over the coming days, in association with RNLI.  Friday:  What? 2018 FIFA World Cup Group B: Portugal v Spain When?  Kick off time is 7 pm. Where? Fisht Stadium, Sochi. Where to watch? …

Top-ranked Dustin Johnson fired a one-under-par 69 to head a group of four players sharing the first-round on Thursday as a wind-whipped Shinnecock Hills offered a classic US Open test. As Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson saw their hopes of milestone major victories suffer serious setbacks, it was England’s Ian Poulter, and Americans Scott Piercy and Russell Henley who stood …

Heading into the 118th U.S. Open, Dustin Johnson was the 8/1 favourite after winning last week’s FedEx St. Jude Classic. Now well into his first round, DJ is as low as 2/1 to add his second U.S. Open to a bulging trophy cabinet. Conditions were brutal this morning, with the likes of Jason Day, Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth shooting …