Golf

Garrick Higgo and Dean Burmester have won the first two tournaments on the three-event Canary Islands Swing of the European Tour – and both are teeing up in the finale this week. Higgo was victorious in the Gran Canaria Lopesan Open, reaching 25 under par, before his compatriot matched that score on his way to […]

Dustin Johnson has been out of sorts since winning the Saudi International in the first week of February, struggling with his driving and putting, but the world number one got a small boost in confidence in the RBC Heritage the week before last and will be hoping to build on that in the Valspar Championship. […]

Hotshot Higgo Seeking Back-to-Back Victories Garrick Higgo has won two of his 24 European Tour events and the 21-year-old South African left-hander will probably be a popular selection at 18/1 for the Tenerife Open this week. Higgo’s putter was a magic wand in the Gran Canaria Lopesan Open last week – he reached 25 under […]

Defending champions Jon Rahm and Ryan Palmer are expected to perform well again in this week’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans but Bubba Watson and Scottie Scheffler will also hope to contend. The last Zurich Classic of New Orleans was won by Rahm and Palmer two years ago – the Spanish youngster and the Texan […]

Antoine Rozner has taken his game to a new level in the last few months and the increasingly confident Frenchman seems a likely contender for this week’s Gran Canaria Lopesan Open. Rozner is gunning for his third victory in eight European Tour starts, having won the Golf in Dubai Championship in December, then the Qatar […]

Antoine Rozner has taken his game to a new level in the last few months and the increasingly confident Frenchman seems a likely contender for this week’s Gran Canaria Lopesan Open. Rozner is gunning for his third victory in eight European Tour starts, having won the Golf in Dubai Championship in December, then the Qatar […]

Thomas Detry has been threatening a European Tour victory ever since graduating to the main circuit in 2016 and the Belgian bomber has been presented with another golden opportunity in this week’s Austrian Open. The low-key gathering at Diamond Country Club will hold no fears for Detry, who will do for many at 8/1. The […]

Hideki Matsuyama became the first male Japanese golfer to win a major championship as he survived some late wobbles to claim a one-shot victory at the Masters. Matsuyama went into the final round defending a four-shot lead and held on after carding a one-over-par Sunday round of 73.  Debutant Will Zalatrois finished second while Xavier […]

Jordan Spieth fans have been getting excited over the last few months, seeing their hero contend for PGA Tour titles again after a spell in the wilderness, and the Dallas man has assumed favouritism for the Texas Open this week. Spieth, an 11-time PGA Tour champion who has not tasted victory since the 2017 Open […]

While the best players in the world head to Austin, Texas for the WGC Match Play, there are still plenty of FedEx Cup points to play for at the Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship in the Dominican Republic. Hudson Swafford defends the title he claimed in September, and is 100/1 to do so successfully, […]

Apart from a handful of injured absentees, the top 64 players in the world head to Texas this week for a match play clash that comes as a refreshing change of pace after a hectic start to the golf year. The WGC Match Play is a tournament that takes plenty of winning with three group […]

There is a real sense of intrigue in the pre-tournament betting for this week’s Kenya Savannah Classic, which takes place at the same course as last week’s Magical Kenya Open and gets underway just 48 hours after the previous event finished. Barring a couple of additions, the field for this European Tour event, which starts […]

PGA National Resort and Spa is the venue for this week’s PGA Tour event, as the stars descend on Palm Beach for the Honda Classic.

Kurt Kitayama has impressed in the Middle East on the European Tour of late, finishing 20th in the Dubai Desert Classic, 12th in the Saudi International and ninth in the Qatar Masters, and the American goes into this week’s Kenya Open as 16/1 favourite. Kitayama, a 28-year-old Californian, made his European Tour breakthrough in the […]

Bryson DeChambeau won the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Sunday and has become the centre of attention for the Players Championship at Sawgrass. The power-packed driving of DeChambeau was getting most of the focus last week, but it was his putter which proved decisive at Bay Hill, with enormous putts holed at the fourth and 11th […]

Thomas Pieters and Thomas Detry are well fancied for this week’s Qatar Masters and can be backed at 16/1 and 20/1 respectively. The Belgian pair won the World Cup together at Royal Melbourne in 2018, but have failed to make the expected impact in individual competition. Pieters is a four-time European Tour champion at the […]