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Six months after singing his praise, Darren Clarke has reacted to a severe downturn in form by sacking his British Open winning caddy, John Mulrooney. Clarke gave fellow Irishman Mulrooney, and also aged 42, his notice after Clarke missed the halfway cut in Abu Dhabi with scores of 72 and 81.  Mulrooney teamed with Clarke purely by co-incidence for last May’s Iberdrola Open in Majorca after firstly David Howell and then Maarten Lafeber, who Mulrooney was to caddy, both became injured and withdrew. Clarke ...

Rock solid Robert Rock denied three U.S. Open champions, including Tiger Woods, to win the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. With chants of ‘Rocky’, ‘Rocky’, ‘Rocky’, the 34-year old Rock lived up to his name posting a final round 70 to win by a stroke with a 13-under par tally. Many of those were in the UAE capital for the England Second Test Match encounter against Pakistan that ended a day earlier with England routed. So they instead made their way to the nearby National golf club to cheer ...

For those supporters of www.golfbytourmiss.com were looking for you to put your thinking caps on and provide us with a caption to this snap taken following Tiger Woods’ third round of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. We’ll get Tim to judge the best caption and organise a prize for the winner.          

Former Open Champion, Ben Curtis revealed his PGA Tour plight has forced him into taking out full time European Tour membership. Curtis, 33 has paid a European Tour membership joining fee and expects to play the mandatory dozen Race to Dubai events including one on mainland Europe. Curtis has become a card carrying European Tour member due to his ‘conditional’ status on the PGA Tour. The Ohioan, who captured the 2003 Open Championship at Royal St. George’s, failed to record one top-10 ...

After a six-hour round drive and some six months in wait Padraig Harrington confessed he’s prepared to play the ‘mistress’ to World No. 1 Luke Donald in working with new practice coach, Dave Alred. Harrington split with long-time coach, Bob Torrance straight after carding a second round 72 to miss the halfway cut in last July’s Irish Open. He was spotted on the Killarney Golf and Fishing Club range on Saturday but unbeknown to most Harrington then drove to Dublin to meet with Alred. At the ...

Could the sight mid-Friday morning of some of the leading administrative figures of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship inspecting the stunning Yas Links course suggest the tournament is moving there in 2013? Giles Morgan, HSBC Head of Group Sponsorship, along with IMG’s Peter German and Mark Webster plus other IMG officials jumped in a six-seat buggy for a tour of the Kyle Phillips designed course. This year’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship is the seventh edition of the tournament since ...

Newly-engaged Richie Ramsay showed the way for the nine Scots contesting the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Ramsay posted a three under par 69 to be lying only two strokes behind the leading duo of Rory McIlroy and Sweden’s Robert Karlsson. McIlroy out-scored playing partners Tiger Woods (70) and Luke Donald (71) in his very first event of the New Year. Three players – England’s Richard Finch, Northern Irelands’ Gareth Maybin and Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Gonnet – are tied in third place at ...