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Former U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell will end his 2012 season and revealing he will be starting his 2013 year in L.A. Dowell will skip competing in the European Tour’s Middle East Swing and intsead tee-up next February in the Northern Trust Open. “I’m going to give the Middle East Swing a miss next year and start my season at the Northern Trust Open in L. A simply so I can have an extended break,” he said. “I haven’t had a proper, proper break in years so I’m taking 10 weeks ...

Irishman Shane Lowry has had to be readmitted to a Dubai hospital as he strives to overcome a mystery virus. Lowry withdrew from the season-ending DP World Tour Championship after first being hospitalised on Tuesday but continues to be able to keep anything down. Horizon Sport’s Conor Ridge was heading back to hospital after McIlroy’s round to visit Lowry and with the uncertainty of when Lowry will be able to return home. Lowry has entered the two events in South Africa next month, and the ...

World No. 1 Rory McIlroy had his lemons squeezed by girlfriend Caroline Wozniacki as he battled sun stroke in the season-ending DP World Tour Championship. McIroy posted a second round 67 before being joined by Donald who birdied the last in a score of 68. Joining the trio is Scotland’s Marc Warren, currently ranked 189th in the world, who carded a 67 and will play alongside McIlroy on day three of the $8m event on the Earth Course. McIlroy battled the after effects of sun stroke but still shone ...

Darren Clarke described being presented with an OBE as an experience to equal winning The Open and competing in the Ryder Cup. The 2011 Open Champion attended Buckingham Palace in the company of his wife, Allison and sons Tyrone and Conor where he was presented with the OBE by Queen Elizabeth 11. Clarke appeared thrilled with his honour and said he was delighted to  be able to share the moment with his family. Referring to his first wife Heather, who lost her fight with breast cancer in  2006, ...

Scotland’s Marc Warren made a mockery of his first ever showing on the Greg Norman Earth Course with a first round 66. The Glaswegian ranked a lowly 189th in the world found himself sharing second place with World No. 1 Rory McIlroy and with the duo a stroke behind World No. 1 Luke Donald. Warren has the new Nike Covert driver in his bag for a first occasion after it became ‘legal’ to use the club for a first time in competition at last fortnight’s Barclays Singapore Open. Warren ...

Triple Major winning Padraig Harrington is intenting to pump up the volume in 2013 by teeing up for a first time in the noisest tournament in golf – the Waste Management Phoenix Open. Harrington is seriously thinking of ditching the Omega Dubai Desert Classic for the Arizona desert TPC Scottsdale stadium-like course and savour the sounds of the infamous for the 162-yard par three 16th or ‘party hole’. It’s the hole where Woods drove the crowd delirious in holing out for an ace in ...

Michael Hoey had clearly shaken off the effects of an ear infection as evident on the opening day of the DP World Tour Championship, Dubai. Hoey picked up three birdies over five holes on day one of the $8m event being staged on the Earth Course at Jumeriah Estates. The Irishman picked up the ear infection while swimming in a hotel pool in Chiangmai, Thailand. Hoey and his wife travelled to the largest city in northern Thailand when he failed to qualify for the recent WGC – HSBC Champions event ...