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Questions will continue to be asked after American golfer – 54-year-old Ken Weyand – posted a 53-over-par tally to finish last by 39 shots at the inaugural Dubai Invitational. Weyand, 54, ended the four rounds with an incredibly unheard 72 strokes behind champion Tommy Fleetwood’s 19-under victory tally on the host Dubai Creek Golf and Yacht club course. The Florida-based Weyland posted scores of 87, 82, 82 and a closing 86 for a horror 337 tally and so far adrift of Sweden’s ...

A first in golf was created at the stroke of midnight, Saturday 1st January, 2000 when I proudly hit the first golf shot on a golf course of the new millennium. This historic golfing achievement took place on the Tonga Golf Club course in the capital of Nuku‘alofa. The nine-hole Tonga Golf Club course, and also known as the Manamo’ui Golf Course, is the only golf course on this tiny Pacific Island nation.  Also, it is the first golf course to the left of the International Dateline Tonga ...

Newly-married Grant Forrest reckons World No. 2 Rory McIlroy is a ‘super power’ when it comes to driving the golf ball. Forrest, who was married just prior to the end of last year at a lavish ceremony at the Archerfield Golf Club to the east of Edinburgh, is among five Scots contesting this week’s inaugural Dubai Invitational in the UAE. Forrest has posted scores of 73, 68 and 71 for a one-under tally and just inside the leading 30 heading to the final round being played in this ...

Tommy Fleetwood is set to celebrate his 33rd birthday five days early with a hopeful victory in the inaugural hosting of the Dubai Invitational. Fleetwood took full advantage of golf’s traditional ‘Moving Day’ in posting a brilliant bogey-free eight-under 63 and how head to the final day’s play one clear of his rivals at 15-under on the host Dubai Golf & Creek Club course in Dubai. Rory McIlroy struggled to be even par through 10 holes before finally getting his round ...

Ewen Ferguson was in good spirits heading into the weekend rounds of his first event of a new year and this despite making a penalty splash with his very first competition shot a day earlier at the inaugural DP World Tour’s Dubai Invitational. Ferguson, who now calls Dubai home, posted a bogey-free second day three-under 68 to head into the weekend rounds sharing 10th place at five-under on the host Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club course. He said: “It’s been a good two days, playing an event ...

Robert MacIntyre has thanked out-going Tour CEO Keith Pelley for providing Scotland’s top-ranked golfer ‘with a pathway to his dreams’. Pelley celebrated his 60th birthday Thursday in somewhat bizarre manner, first learning while competing in this week’s inaugural pro/amateur Dubai Invitational, that news of him quitting as head of the European Tour Group had been unceremonously leaked by his new employer. It put the Tour, that’s he’s been their head since May 2015, in damage control ...

True golf fans have heard of the Wentworth Club in leafy Surrey, as it’s the host venue each year for the DP World Tour’s flagship BMW PGA Championship. Wentworth is located also just a short drive from London’s Heathrow Airport however if you wanted to travel to Wentworth’s namesake and that’s the Wentworth Club to the north of Tampa, then you’re looking at a trans Atlantic flight of over a 10-hours. The Florida-located Wentworth Club at Tarpon Springs is just ...