Shane Lowry, Seamus Power, Sara Byrne and Leona Maguire are all in action this week but while the DP World Tour heads to South Africa, there are no Irish in action.
PGA Tour
Shane Lowry and Seamus Power return to PGA Tour action at the Cognizant Classic at PGA National Resort, Palm Beach Gardens as the east coast swing gets underway.
It’s a home game for Lowry who lives in Florida these days and he will be looking to get his game in tune for the Masters in just over a month’s time.
Power meanwhile, can keep his good run of form going. The West Waterford man has made his last three cuts with two top-25 finishes in the process.
The two-time PGA Tour winner has played two signature events on the PGA Tour this season after earning two invites at the start of the campaign. Now he is back on the outside looking in and with a world ranking of 116, the Aon Swing five looks his best avenue to earn another start in a $20 million event.
LPGA Tour
It was a mixed bag for Leona Maguire last week in Thailand and she gets back on the horse for the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore.
Epson Tour
Cork star Sara Byrne makes her Epson Tour debut at the Central Florida Championship in what she hopes will be her first step on the journey to the LPGA Tour.
Byrne earned a card on the Epson Tour, which is the direct feeder tour to the LPGA Tour and while she will play a chunk of Ladies European Tour events she is determined to fast track her way to the LPGA Tour by playing on Epson which awards full LPGA Tour cards for the top-10 on the Order of Merit.
“The main goal is to have ticked off is to try get in the top-10 on Epson and get a full LPGA Tour card for 2026,” says the Dromoland Castle star. “If I can go into 2026 with a tour card that would be the dream. Whatever happens I am going to take it all in. I think I might have found it tough going straight to LPGA Q-School, going in at the deep end. Maybe I would have loved it, but I am taking this year as a chance to learn a lot about pro golf.
“If you get in the top-10 on the order of merit you get a full card for the year, if you get in the top-15 you get fairly good status on the LPGA Tour then the top-35 on the order of merit get into the final stage of LPGA Q-School. You only get final stage of LPGA Q-School if you get into the top-10 of the LET Order of Merit so when I was adding it all up it just made sense.”
Alps Tour
John Murphy, Ronan Mullarney, Robert Moran, Hugh Foley and Marc Boucher tee it up at Sokhna Golf Club again at the Red Sea Little Venice Open.
Play has already got underway in Egypt.
Jabra Ladies Open
Irish in action: Olivia Mehaffey, Abigail O’Riordan.
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