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This week heralds the first event on the new Asian Tour season with the Smart Infinity Philippine Open in Manilla. While 2025 also marks the 30th year since the first Asian Tour event, this week will be the 112th anniversary of the Smart Infinity Philippine Open since the inaugural hosting of the event in 1913 and won by American amateur JRH Mason. How many countries can boast a national open championship with such a long history? The tournament has been played every year since with the exception ...

Top-Scot Robert MacIntyre has returned home to Oban looking to recharge ​his golfing batteries after a ‘frustrating’ Hero Dubai Desert Classic finish. MacIntyre managed 17 birdies but posted 11 bogeys in a six-under tally to share sixth place in the $9.4m event​ won by LIV star Tyrrell Hatton. Hatton, 33, captured a second DP World Tour victory in five events after winning last October’s Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland. Hatton said: “This win is up there with winning the Dunhill ...

Hero Dubai Desert Classic champion Tyrrell Hatton revealed he used to skip school to watch the Dubai event on TV, and admits is now amazing to join some of the greats of the game in becoming the Dubai events new champion. Hatton, 33, birdied the last in closing 69 to capture a second DP World Tour victory in five events after winning last October’s Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland. Hatton said: “This win is up there with winning the Dunhill in St. Andrews and the only thing bigger would ...

LIV Golfer captured a second DP World Tour title in his last five Tour events in posting a closing 69 for a one-shot victory in the 2025 Hero Dubai Desert Classic. Hatton captured last October’s Dunhill Links Championship in Scotand and since then has posted a second place finish in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, sixth in the following week’s season-ending DP World Tour Championship and then travelled to Saudi Arabia to be fifth in the Asian Tour season-ending PIF International in Riyadh. The ...

Tommy Fleetwood found himself serenaded by fans singing ‘Happy Birthday’ shortly after he teed-off on the final day of the Hero Dubai Desert Classic. The very popular English golfer turned 33 and with fans warming to the occasion when asked to join in singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to the 10-time pro winning golfer. “It was a nice touch and unexpected, so always nice to have that support from the fans” , he said speaking to GolfByTourMiss  Tommy @TommyFleetwood1 serenaded ...

Masters champion Adam Scott was full of praise for ultra-talented Moroccan-born amateur Adam Bresnau. Scott and Bresnau, along with American lefty Akshay Bhatia went out in the same group on day three of the $9m Hero Dubai Desert Classic signing for respective rounds of 69, 72 and Bhatia a 73 in bright but testing windy conditions on the host Emirates club course. It is only Bresnau’s second time in Dubai and the first being at the end of last year when he captured the Pan Arab Amateur Championship ...

Scotland’s Ewen Ferguson was far from pleased when he found himself ‘put on the clock’ by a DP World Tour official while still very much in contention late in his round on day three of the Hero Dubai Desert Classic here in Dubai. Ferguson was one-over par for his third round heading down the 16th hole on the host Emirates Golf Club course when he, and playing in the group of Kiwi Dan Hillier and Aussie Jason Scrivener, was approached and advised to speed-up his play by the Tour’s ...