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Rory McIlroy was always going to asked his views over a conflict that’s come to light between LIV Golf’s top star Jon Rahm and the DP World Tour over Rahm’s refusal to meet event mandates, coupled with the threat of denying the champion Spaniard European Ryder Cup eligibility. Rahm’s dispute with the DP World Tour has escalated after the Spaniard accused the ­organisation of “­extorting” golfers over fines for competing on the LIV circuit. Rahm’s Ryder Cup future remains ...

Despite being in the news for his displeasure with the DP World Tour, Spanish superstar golfer Jon Rahm is to be congratulated in coming to the rescue of eight fellow LIV Golf players stranded in the Middle East due to the Iran war have safely arrived in Hong Kong ahead of LIV’s third event of 2026. LIV Golf confirmed that all eight players, Lee Westwood, Laurie Canter, Sam Horsfield, Adrian Meronk, Thomas Detry, Caleb Surratt, Tom McKibbin and Anirban Lahiri, arrived in Hong Kong on Wednesday ...

Members of Luke Donald’s two winning European Ryder Cup teams are naturally delighted Donald has chosen to remain on board to captain the 2027 European Ryder Cup side. Rory McIlroy headed the good news declaring Donald’s Adare Manor appointment to be ” a huge advantage for European Team to have that continuity back in the team” McIlroy, and a member of eight European Teams, added ahead of this week’s Arnold Palmer Invigtational:  “I was sort of talking about that ...

Luke Donald has been named as the European Captain for the 2027 Ryder Cup at Adare Manor in Limerick, Ireland. The biennial contest will celebrate its 100th anniversary next year and Donald will have the chance to mark the occasion with his own piece of history as he attempts to become the first Captain to lead a Ryder Cup team to three consecutive victories. The 48 year old Englishman previously captained Team Europe to a 16½ – 11½ victory against the United States at Marco Simone, Rome ...

Scot Calum Hill has returned to Johannesburg on a high as he heads into this week’s Joburg Championship title defence in the South African capital. Hill ended a four-year victory drought twelve months ago cutting a swathe through the final round field, coming from eight shots back in posting a sizzling 62 under a ‘one-club’ preferred lie rule on the rain-softened Houghton course fairways to grab the clubhouse lead ahead of a near hour long wait to be crowned champion. The Crook of Devon ...

Chris Gotterup can be excused if he’s floating on a golfing cloud nine. Two wins in just five events of this still new 2026 season and the wins coming on the back of a maiden PGA Tour victory a year ago at the Genesis Scottish Open followed by a T3rd place finish a week later at The Open. He’s also leaped from World No. 158th teeing-up in Scotland to the new World No. 6 teeing-up this week for a first occasion in the Arnold Palmer Invitational. “Yeah, this is my first time here, ...

Double-winning European Ryder Cup star Matt Fitzpatrick has joined a growing chorus calling on his 2023/’25 victory team leader Luke Donald to remain in charge for the 2027 Ryder Cup defence at Adare Manor in Ireland. Fitzpatrick, 31, has represented Europe in four Ryder Cup – 2016, 2021, 2023 and 2025 – though none were more special than winning in 2023 in Rome and then successfully defending the Cup at Bethpage Park a year ago. And while Fitzpatrick would dearly love to be a member of  the ...