It was a solid but unspectacular opening day for the Irish contingent on the MENA Tour’s Blue Canyon Open, with all three of Kevin Phelan, Robin Dawson and Conor O’Rourke left in the middle of the pack in Phuket

It was a solid but unspectacular opening day for the Irish contingent on the MENA Tour’s Blue Canyon Open, with all three of Kevin Phelan, Robin Dawson and Conor O’Rourke left in the middle of the pack in Phuket
Leona Maguire will participate in the Horizon Irish Open Pro-Am for the first time alongside a host of celebrities when the fun-filled curtain raiser for the event tees off at Mount Juliet Estate next month
Shane Lowry has been backed into 22/1 from 28/1 at the start of the week with BoyleSports and he has also been clipped into 8/1 from 10/1 to finish the week as the leading European
“I’ve had a lot of stuff going on recently and just being out of the game is not fun. It’s not been a fun thing for me, so I’m excited to get back and give it another shot. I think everybody deserves a second chance”
“I understand some people might not like that but it’s an opportunity for me to make the next stage of my life very comfortable and how can I turn that down?”
Rory McIlroy teed up as part of a full Irish fourball on Tuesday at Southern Hills as he ramped-up his preparation ahead of Thursday’s starting US PGA Championship
“There’s really no middle ground, you stand one way or the other. It’s very polarising. And the viewpoints that Phil has made with the Tour and what the Tour has meant to all of us has been polarising, as well”
John Murphy is looking to find form after his PGA Tour missed cut while Conor Purcell makes the leap from the Alps Tour for this week’s Challenge de Espana which starts Thursday in Cadiz
Tiger Woods looks and sounds every bit confident declaring he’s climbed his golfing Everest and that it can only get better and flatter 15-years on from his 2007 PGA Championship triumph
“He won a Major championship at 50-years old. It was possibly his last big, big moment in the game of golf and I think he should be here this week and celebrating a monumental achievement”
“We play a lot of big tournaments around the world and The Open venues that we go to are all really special but for me, the best and most special tournament in the world is The Open at St Andrews”
Given the hype around Rory McIlroy’s grand slam bid, we often forget that Jordan Spieth is on the cusp of golfing immortality too. Could this be the week for the popular Texan?
“I haven’t necessarily made a decision one way or the other. I’ve mentioned in the past, do I currently think that the PGA Tour is the best place to play? I do. Do I think it can be better? Yes”
“As everyone says, it’s the majors you want to be competing, so I am looking forward to Southern Hills and testing my game on another major championship host course, and in a major championship field”
“I was offered something in excess of $100 million by the Saudis, to do the job probably similar to the one that Greg is doing,” Nicklaus said in an interview with Fire Pit Collective