Clarke with tough opening draw at the Volvo Matchplay

Clarke with tough opening draw at the Volvo Matchplay

Open cham­pion will go up againstEngland’s Justin Rose and Robert Rock in Thursday’s group stages. Defend­ing cham­pion Ian Poul­ter, in the mean­time, has been drawn to play against his young Eng­lish com­pa­triot Tom Lewis, as well as Aus­tralian John Senden […]

Flying visit to Ravenhill for Ulster fan Rory

Flying visit to Ravenhill for Ulster fan Rory

Rory McIl­roy takes in a fly­ing visit to the home of Ulster rugby at Raven­hill. Rory a keen Ulster rugby fan vis­ited tonight with ten­nis ace Car­o­line Woz­naiki. It has been rumoured that Rory spon­sors some of the Ulster play­ers. […]

Irish Open Latest Ticket News

Irish Open Latest Ticket News

Tick­ets sales for the week­end play at next month’s Irish Open at Royal Portrush are now close to a sell-out, tour­na­ment organ­is­ers said on Thurs­day. Cham­pi­onship direc­tor Anto­nia Beggs revealed that spec­ta­tors turn­ing up at the gate on the Sat­ur­day […]

Rory on peaking at the right time

Rory on peaking at the right time

Rory McIl­roy, who plays at the Wells Fargo Cham­pi­onship this week, says his recent absence from the course is all part of a plan. TheChar­lot­teevent will be just his sec­ond tour­na­ment in eight weeks on Thurs­day, but says it is all […]

Royal Co. Down holds Palmer Cup at the end of June

Royal Co. Down holds Palmer Cup at the end of June

Palmer Cup The Royal County Down Golf Club is delighted to be host­ing the Palmer Cup from the 28th to 30th June 2012. The Palmer Cup is an annual golf match ini­ti­ated by Arnold Palmer in 1997 and played between […]

Tiger continues to be the talking point

Tiger continues to be the talking point

Divin­ing Tiger Woods has become golf’s great­est pas­time. “Will he, or won’t he?” has become a ques­tion of Shake­spearean dimen­sions as Woods strives to find the cham­pion he used to be. Is Woods “gone,” his “golf­ing brain com­pletely addled” as […]

International

  • Tiger book tells all
    Tiger book tells all

    Tiger Woods’ for­mer swing coach Hank Haney paints the golfer as a tem­pes­tu­ous, rude, cheap super­star obliv­i­ous to those around him in his new tell-all book. Woods referred to his hired help as “friends,” but […]

  • Keegan to take the trip to Portrush
    Keegan to take the trip to Portrush

    US PGA win­ner Kee­gan Bradley enters field for Irish Open US PGA win­ner Kee­gan Bradley has signed up to play in the Irish Open at Royal Portrush, mean­ing three of the four major win­ners will com­pete. […]

  • Ryder Cup 2014 to be held at Gleneagles
    Ryder Cup 2014 to be held at Gleneagles

    The Ryder Cup at The Gle­nea­gles Hotel,Perthshire,Scotland, will take place from Fri­day Sep­tem­ber 26 to Sun­day Sep­tem­ber 28, 2014. The date for the 40th stag­ing of the bien­nial con­test between Europe and the­United Stateswas announced […]

  • Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker thrashed in Presidents Cup
    Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker thrashed in Presidents Cup

    Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker thrashed in Pres­i­dents Cup Tiger Woods suf­fered the biggest match­play defeat of his career as Adam Scott and KJ Choi ham­mered him and Steve Stricker 7&6 in the Pres­i­dents Cup […]

  • Hank Haney to write the Tiger Story
    Hank Haney to write the Tiger Story

    KAPALUA, Hawaii — Hank Haney has writ­ten a book about the six years he spent as Tiger Woods’ swing coach, a volatile time in which Woods went from win­ning nearly half of his tour­na­ments to […]

Irish Clubs

Irish Players

  • McIlroy to play Irish Open 2012
    McIlroy to play Irish Open 2012

    Rory McIl­roy has con­firmed he will play at the 2012 Irish Open. McIlroy’s par­tic­i­pa­tion had been in doubt because of a clash of dates with the AT&T National at Con­gres­sional, the scene of his US Open […]

  • Donald claims Rory has more talent than Tiger
    Donald claims Rory has more talent than Tiger

    World No 1 Luke Don­ald is con­vinced that Rory McIl­roy has more “pure tal­ent” than 14-time major cham­pion Tiger Woods. Set to bat­tle the Holy­wood hot­shot for the Race to Dubai title this week, Don­ald insisted: […]

  • Rory McIlroy's last-hole birdie in Shanghai has taken him to a career-high second in the world.
    Rory McIlroy’s last-hole birdie in Shanghai has taken him to a career-high second in the world.

    Rory McIlroy’s last-hole birdie in Shang­hai has taken him to a career-high sec­ond in the world. Now onlyEngland’s Luke Don­ald is ahead of the 22-year-old US Open cham­pion thanks to his fourth-place fin­ish at the WGC-HSBC […]

  • Darren Clarke in New Years Honours list!
    Darren Clarke in New Years Honours list!

    Golfers Dar­ren Clarke and Rory McIl­roy have received awards for their 2011 suc­cess in the New Year Hon­ours list. Open win­ner Clarke becomes an OBE while fel­low North­ern Irish­man McIl­roy is appointed an MBE for his […]

  • Harrington hits record sixty one
    Harrington hits record sixty one

    Irish­man Padraig Har­ring­ton fired a 10-under par 61, the low­est score of his career, to seize the club­house lead on Thurs­day in round one of the US PGA Tran­si­tions Cham­pi­onship. Harrington’s bogey-free round set a […]