Ryder Cup News

'I've had an absolute nightmare out in the freezing cold and rain. The fire's not there right now,' says Poulter Ryder Cup hero Ian Poulter admitted his fire has gone out after whinging in the rain at the BMW PGA.

Aug 9, 2012; Kiawah Island, SC, USA; Francesco Molinari hits from the fairway on the 15th hole during the first round of the 94th PGA Championship at the Ocean Course of the Kiawah Island Golf Resort.

Italy's Francesco Molinari shot a second-round 68 to move into a one-shot lead at the halfway stage of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth, as a stellar line-up of European Ryder Cup players missed the cut.

Francesco Molinari flourished while several of his European Ryder Cup team mates fell flat on their faces as the Italian grabbed the lead in the PGA Championship second round on Friday.

A DREAM final at the 2014 Ryder Cup venue Gleneagles is up for grabs for amateur Cliff Anger and his Ogbourne Downs PGA professional Craig Bell in Europe's biggest pro-am competition - The Lombard Trophy.

'I was really impressed by Justin at the Ryder Cup and he is still playing very, very well,' says Spaniard who tips Rose for a Major The world No 4 will tee up in Europe for the first time since the Miracle at Medinah at the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth this week.

Ryan Palmer was standing in the fairway on his last hole Thursday when his longtime caddie and fellow Colonial member issued a challenge.

Sergio Garcia has escaped punishment for what could be construed as a racist remark about Tiger Woods after offering an unreserved apology.

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LOTHIANS star Stephen Gallacher reckons Paul McGinley's wild-card change for next year's Ryder Cup has made it harder for him to get in the team for Gleneagles.

THE Scot threw his weight behind the anchor stroke ban despite using a belly putter to secure victory at the 2004 Ryder Cup.

Richard Masters secured a career-best finish at the Senior PGA Professional Championship to book himself a date with former Ryder Cup-winning captains Ian Woosnam and Sam Torrance.

Sept. 30, 2012: Europe's Martin Kaymer celebrates with Sergio Garcia after winning the Ryder Cup PGA golf tournament at the Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Ill.

"We know that not everyone will agree with our final decision," said chief executive Peter Dawson at a press conference held in the Ryder Cup room of the Wentworth clubhouse.

Hallberg was a state high school champion at Barrington, an Illinois Open winner twice, an NCAA champion at Wake Forest and the first player to earn PGA Tour playing privileges without going to qualifying school.

Golf's governing bodies have ruled that the use of controversial anchored putters will be banned from 2016, following several months of consultation that drew strong U.S. opposition to the planned change.

So Tiger Woods doesn't want to make friends. That's just fine with Sergio Garcia, who underscored the enmity between them at Wentworth after Woods said in America that he was not interested in any reconciliation.

Sang-Moon Bae shot a one-under-par 69 to win the 2013 HP Byron Nelson Championship by two strokes on Sunday, beating out major champion Keegan Bradley at the TPC Four Seasons Resort in Irving, Texas.

Dow Finsterwald Jr. arrived in Fort Worth 26 years ago as green as historic Colonial's lush fairways, but what he lacked in résumé credentials he more than made up for with a princely golfing pedigree and gumption.

Watson will be playing a lot of golf as well as keeping an eye on things as captain of the U.S. team for the 2014 Ryder Cup competition.