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….. Royal Greens GC, Saudi Arabia Asian Tour Commissioner Cho Minn Thant sits on the Official Golf World Rankings (OWGR) committee but he admits it comes as a ‘shock’ to him that this week’s Asian Tour Saudi International attracts less World Ranking points than the PGA Tour’s AT & T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. The inaugural 2023 Asian Tour event boasts the strongest field of any tournament this New Year with 12 major champions initially in the field ahead of the withdrawal, due ...

…. Royal Greens GC, Saudi Arabia Past champion Dustin Johnson is the latest to step forward insisting there will be no tension at the Masters Champions Dinner next April at Augusta National. It was Spaniard Jon Rahm’s reaction to news late last year from the green jacket members club in Augusta club that all eligible LIV golfers would be free to tee-up on the Georgia golfing gem while past winners of the Masters, including Johnson, would not be denied from attending the dinner. Rahm believed ...

…. Royal Greens GC, Saudi Arabia Dustin Johnson’s quitely confident he will be fit for the opening event later this month of the 14-tournament 2023 LIV Golf series in Mexico. Johnson arrived in Saudi Arabia with a lower right back strain forcing him out of Wednesday’s Pro-Am and also to withdraw from the now $US 5m Asian Tour event he won both in 2019 and 2021 on the Royal Greens course. However the former World No. 1 chose to remain in Saudi Arabia mingling with VIP guests and also delighting ...

….. Royal Greens GC, Saudi Arabia Being a caddy to a professional golfer whether male or female is not an easy job as it’s widely known in the trade that if a player is not competing at their best the first to be sacked is the caddy. Just ask Bo Martin, who has just been recently sacked by Open Championship winning Shane Lowry. Well there is a new player/caddy partnership clearly hitting it off at this week’s opening event on the Asian Tour’s Saudi Invitational. Paul and Pollyanna ...

…. Royal Greens GC, Saudi Arabia Past champion Charl Schwartzel insists if there is any tension at this year’s Masters ‘Former Champions Dinner’ it will not be his doing. Augusta National announced five days prior to last Christmas there will be no restriction on the six now LIV Golf past Masters winners including – Phil Mickelson (2006, 2010 and 2014), Schwartzel (2011), Bubba Watson (2012 and ’14), Sergio Garcia (2017), Patrick Reed (2018) and Dustin Johnson (2020) – in being ...

…. Royal Greens GC, Saudi Arabia Graeme McDowell has every reason to be excited ahead of the start of celebrating a 21st pro season along the stunning Red Sea shoreline in Saudi Arabia. McDowell, 43, joins 11 other major champions in the strongest field this new year competing in the $5m PIF Saudi International, again being hosted on the Royal Greens course. The event is special for McDowell having won the then European Tour event in 2020, and for this year it is the second hosting under the ...

….. Royal Greens GC, Saudi Arabia Double Augusta winning Bubba Watson believes Rory McIlroy will win the Masters and in doing so join the most exclusive club in all of golf. GolfByTourMiss spoke exclusively with Watson ahead of this week’s fifth anniversary hosting of the now Asian Tour sanctioned Saudi International at the Royal Greens Club in Saudi Arabia. Watson, now aged 44, was fitted with the first Augusta National green members jacked in 2012 and then a second two years later ...