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It's not fair to expect McIlroy to stand up to Trump
Rory McIlroy has been in the dock for playing a round of golf with the President. Why the outrage?
Rory McIlroy has been in the dock for playing a round of golf with the President. Why the outrage?
From teenaged tearaway implicated in a gangland murder to multi-millionaire professional athlete. From party animal with three positive tests for recreational drugs to major champion. From game's pariah wasting all that god-given ability to world No 1 for whom rivals have nothing but praise.
Perth's revolutionary $1.75 million World Super 6 golf event is set to gain even more of a party vibe next year.
President Trump, who pledged as a candidate to limit his golfing to when it was also conducive to conducting business, played a full round last weekend with world No.3 golfer Rory McIlroy.
Adam Scott will revamp his 2017 major championship schedule in a bid to add to his historic 2013 Masters title.
Canbera's Matt Millar says big time ahead for Thai young gun.
Nineteen golfers, including the Genesis Open's non-playing host, Tiger Woods, have ascended to the men's world No. 1 spot since the rankings were introduced in 1986. On Monday, Dustin Johnson will become the 20th.
Korean golfer Ha Na Jang has produced a stunning late surge to win the women's Australian Open at Royal Adelaide.
Jason Day's golf world No.1 ranking is under siege as American Dustin Johnson sits atop the leaderboard at the US PGA Tour's Genesis Open.
Adam Scott has battled to stay amongst the US PGA Tour's Genesis Open leaderboard midway through a weather-delayed second round at Riviera Country Club.
By Justin Chadwick
European Tour chief executive Keith Pelley can picture a golf event being played at a stadium one day, saying the revolutionary World Super 6 in Perth is just a taste of what's to come for the sport.
With a stellar record at Riviera Country Club, it is no mystery why Australian golfer Aaron Baddeley feels at home at the famed Los Angeles course.
After a round of golf with boxing great Sugar Ray Leonard, Adam Scott has nominated the six tournaments he considers to be "title fights" in 2017.
If you had his money, would you put yourself through all of this, through the agony and the scorn, merely to add a few more digits to your huge fortune?
Dustin Johnson or Hideki Matsuyama can reach the top of the world rankings for the first time this week, but current No.1 Jason Day is determined to stop that happening.
Appropriately enough for the Australian city named after the Scottish community where King James IV repealed a decades-old ban on the sport, Perth will be the scene of a golfing revolution this week.
Canadian Brooke Henderson says she's adopting an even more aggressive approach in a bid to live up to her hype as a potential world No.1 golfer.
The European Tour believes it has found golf's version of Twenty20 and over the next few days will announce details of a tournament near London featuring the new GolfSixes format.
Jordan Spieth has taken control of the US PGA Tour's Pebble Beach tournament as Australian veteran Geoff Ogilvy rose and countryman Jason Day went into reverse.
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