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This weekend (8-12 May) sees golf's 'fifth major' get underway, with The Players Championship at Sawgrass in Florida.  Phil Mickelson will be defending his title and looking to take advantage of a rare tournament without world number-one Tiger Woods, who is still recovering from his recent knee surgery.  The GOLFLINKS team will provide coverage throughout the four tournament days.

More generally, our magazine below brings you some of the latest golfing news stories from the sport.  From major golf stories on tour to the latest golf industry news and exclusive golf magazine features, you will find reports, stories, pictures and links to ensure you are right up-to-date.

Hit the section headings for our extensive story archive, which now contains a full wrap of stories from the May edition of Fairway to Green magazine.

Check back regularly to see the latest golf news from tour, plus many other golf related news stories from around the globe and around the corner at your local golf club.  Do you have a golf news story you would like to see featured on GOLFLINKS.co.uk? Feel free to get in touch.

Golf News

Karlsson goes low in Milan

Ryder Cup hopeful Robert Karlsson stormed to the top of the leaderboard with a course record 61 in the second round of the Italian Open.


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Players Championship collated

All the first round scores from the US PGA Tour's The Players Championship at Sawgrass.


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Els - Blow up Sawgrass 17

Ernie Els took a treble bogey six at Sawgrass' famous 17th hole and the famously laid-back South African was left fuming.


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Golf blog

‘Virtual reality golf’ comes to Playgolf Northwick Park
‘Virtual reality golf’ comes to Playgolf Northwick Park

Playgolf Northwick Park will next week become the first golf centre in the world to introduce new state-of-the-art HiSpeed Golf simulators - which combine the skills of real golf with the thrill of virtual reality gaming technology.


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UK’s newest golf magazine "Chip and Spin" receives first-class approval

Chip and Spin, the UK's newest golf consumer magazine, is to be distributed to a selection of the world's leading airlines following its successful launch last month.


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GOLFLINKS hits record numbers
GOLFLINKS hits record numbers

GOLFLINKS.co.uk, has recorded a record 80,000 visitors to the site in its first month of operating, making it one of the fastest and largest golfing web-communities on the internet.


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Ladies Tour reaches Turkey
Ladies Tour reaches Turkey

The Ladies European Tour visits Turkey for the first time in its 30-year history this week for the €250,000 Garanti American Express Turkish Open at National Golf Club in Belek, Antalya.


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Magazine articles

Matchplay golfers scale the heights at Taba
Matchplay golfers scale the heights at Taba

Four golfers from the UK & Ireland are celebrating after being crowned Matchplay Champions at a thrilling final at a luxury five-star resort in Egypt.  Read the full story or go here to learn more about this year's Matchplay Championship

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Mickelson looks ahead to TPC
Mickelson looks ahead to TPC

The Players Championship - regarded by many as golf's unofficial fifth major - kicks off today at Sawgrass in the US where Lefty (pictured) will be defending his 2007 title.  The world's best players will be competing for the title and for once they won't have to beat Tiger!

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Old champions don’t fade away – they come back and play another day ...
Old champions don’t fade away – they come back and play another day ...

Paul Mahoney watched in awe as the old ‘uns rolled back the years at Augusta last month.

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Merseyside cabbies get ‘the knowledge’
Merseyside cabbies get ‘the knowledge’

More than 100 Merseyside cabbies will take the ‘golfing’ knowledge courtesy of the UK’s only PGA national residential golf academy, Formby Hall Golf Resort & Spa.

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No way Jose!
No way Jose!

Jose Maria Olazabal has admitted he’s unlikely to make September's Ryder Cup team. The two-time US Masters champion, 42, is Nick Faldo's vice-captain for the Kentucky event, and has recently returned to competitive action after persistent problems with rheumatism cut short his 2007 season.

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Neumann and Morley join Nicholas’ cup team
Neumann and Morley join Nicholas’ cup team

European Solheim Cup captain Alison Nicholas has named Sweden’s Liselotte Neumann and England’s Joanne Morley as her assistant captains for the 2009 match.

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Faldo Series continues to expand with two new events
Faldo Series continues to expand with two new events

The Faldo Series has expanded to cover Russia and South America. The new Faldo Series Russia championship will complete the season’s continental European schedule, bringing the total number of non-British tournaments in that region to four.

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