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Rory McIlroy was all class despite another disappointing maiden Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship title chase. Two days shy of two months ago, McIlroy let slip victory when he bogeyed three of his closing four holes at the season-ending DP World Tour Championship about a 70-minute drive ‘up the road’ the road in Dubai. Then within the scorer’s hut at Jumeirah Resort, he showed his disappointment by virtually tearing the collar from his shirt, and avoiding any post-round discussion. In the first ...

Bob MacIntyre has joined the exclusive Nike stable of top golfers and fellow Scot and management stablemate Grant Forrest couldn’t be happier. MacIntyre emerged from the Christmas festive break and into a fourth pro season wearing the Nike ‘swoosh’ logo on his shirts and also with Nike pants and shorts, that he’s added to Nike golf shoes he’s been wearing for some time. It’s see’s the top-ranked Scot now sporting the same attire as Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Brooks Koepka, Jason ...

Ice-cool Scott Jamieson continues to defy the golfing skeptics heading to the final round tied by a stroke at 11-under-par at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Jamieson, 38, calmly rolled-in a birdie putt at the last in a four-under 68 to finish clear of 2019 Abu Dhabi winner Shane Lowry and Belgium’s Thomas Pieters, and each with 67s, and tied second at 10-under in less testing conditions on the Yas Links course. The Scotland-born, Florida-based Jamieson is contesting a 300th Tour event and seeks ...

For 16-years the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship has been the starting point for many of the best competing on the now renamed DP World Tour. The tournament in the UAE capital has also seen some of the best in the world win on the National course at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club that boasts the stunning falcon clubhouse. And winning the equally stunning falcon trophy has been a who’s who in golf including double-major winning Martin Kaymer, who’s won the event three times along with Ireland’s own Shane ...

Padraig Harrington delivered Robert MacIntyre a blunt assessment as to why the super Scot failed to qualify or be picked for last September’s European Ryder Cup ranks. MacIntyre fell agonizingly shy of qualifying automatically and in the end European captain Harrington went for the winning experience of Shane Lowry and the Ryder Cup veteran pair of Sergio Garcia and Ian Poulter. Harrington singled out MacIntyre’s decision chasing not only his PGA Tour card but entering the secondary KornFerry ...

Shane Lowry had a smile on his face but it was nothing to do with the brutal conditions on day two of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship on a very windswept Yas Links course. Lowry dug deep, exhibiting all the traits that earned him victory in the 149th Open Championship, in posting a level par 72 to remain well in contention at five-under-par. Scotland’s Scott Henderson continues to lead and manage to complete his round with a two-over-par 74 and lead by a shot at seven-under, and just prior ...

Rory McIlroy could be mistaken he was competing in Scotland in October rather than what should be the New Year heat in the UAE capital. McIlroy was not alone in battling near 60 km off-shore winds and the late afternoon chill, and on one of the toughest weather-related days in the 17-year history of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship in the UAE capital The World No. 8 had shown a little New Year rust in posting a Thursday starting score of a level par 72 but nothing prepared all those ...