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From the Rising Sun to the Setting Sun: Matsuyama closes the year as he started it

Alejandro Rodríguez — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 21:51:46 +0000

Hideki Matsuyama (-22) has caused an upset by winning the Hero World Challenge, a tournament organised under the umbrella of the PGA Tour with Tiger Woods as host, but which does not award official points for the FedEx Cup. It’s not that the Japanese player wasn’t among the candidates to lift the trophy, because he […]

Is Alex Noren still in time to play the Ryder Cup?

Alejandro Rodríguez — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 18:06:35 +0000

The answer to the headline, short and to the point, is no. He can no longer play the Ryder Cup because the Europe team is closed since Luke Donald announced his six picks. With a caveat. Alex Noren will not be able to play at Bethpage unless something unexpected and undesirable happens. That is, one […]

The paths of Noren are inscrutable

Silvia Pereira — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 17:58:28 +0000

– That’s the nature of such an unpredictable sport like golf: you gather eleven of the twelve members of the European Ryder Cup team in a tournament, days before the big event at Bethpage, and in the end, the banner is picked up by the last vice-captain to join the group, in this case, Alex […]

Hatton, the best ‘Ryder news’ of the day at Wentworth

Silvia Pereira — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 18:52:08 +0000

Alex Noren (-15) and Adrien Saddier (-15) are the leaders of the BMW PGA Championship after the third round. The Frenchman is back in the game: he was leading in Switzerland two weeks ago after the second round and was leading again in Ireland last week after the third, exactly as is happening now at […]

Donald kept the surprise for the fifth and final vice-captain

Alejandro Rodríguez — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 10:20:08 +0000

In a way, it can be considered a surprise. Alex Noren has been appointed by Luke Donald as the fifth and final vice-captain for the upcoming Ryder Cup at Bethpage. It can be deemed a surprise because he has never held this role before, and his presence in European teams has not been particularly significant. […]

Alex Noren wins seven years later and raises reasonable doubt

Alejandro Rodríguez — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 17:34:59 +0000

Alex Noren has won the British Masters this Sunday at The Belfry. For those who love omens. The last time he lifted a trophy was at the Ryder Cup. It happened in 2018. It’s true that back then he won the Open de France at Golf National, the same venue that hosted the clash between […]

Total conjuring to make it difficult for Luke Donald

Alejandro Rodríguez — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 16:50:27 +0000

Luke Donald has ordered a couple of trucks loaded with paracetamol this afternoon. His next 10 days are not going to be exactly easy. There is a plot intended to give him a major headache with the last choice for the Ryder Cup, that already famous Number 12 player who is still needed, according to […]

Scottie, the legend of the ‘relentless men’

Alejandro Rodríguez — Sun, 18 May 2025 00:19:32 +0000

Relentless. It was Rory McIlroy, missing in action this week, who named him that earlier this year when he admitted he was trying to absorb aspects of the Number One to compete against him. Scottie, the relentless. Translated into Spanish: implacable. Today Scheffler has shown himself to be relentless at Quail Hollow. He made an […]

Two forty-somethings line up the whole troop at the American Express

Juan de la Huerga Hernández — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 00:58:38 +0000

The new generations are coming in strong, but those who had, retained, and as a button sample of the first day of the American Express, where two forty-somethings, one more than the other, lined up all the young troops in this trine tournament (played on three courses: Stadium Course, Nicklaus Tournament and La Quinta) where […]

Rahm seeks Dubai hat-trick as Rankings race goes down to the wire

Silvia Pereira — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 20:59:42 +0000

Jon Rahm will take a one-stroke lead into the final round of the DP World Tour Championship, Dubai as he seeks to win the DP World Tour’s season-ending event for a third time. The Spaniard already has four Rolex Series titles to his name, two of them coming in Dubai in 2017 and 2019, and […]