Golf, by TourMiss

… Jumeirah Estates, Dubai Connor Syme is quietly confident there’s an automatic 2023 Open Championship tee time in his golf bag as a reward heading to his final event of the season at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. Syme, at 33rd on the Race to Dubai money list, is three places shy of the top-30 that at tournament end will be rewarded with a Royal Liverpool tee time while his third round 70 moved him to two-under and just outside the leading 20 in the US$4m season finale. Spaniard ...

…. Jumeirah Estates, Dubai While Rory McIroy is taking the war of words seemingly single-handedly to LIV Golf, he continues to show a respectful side to many of those who joined the breakaway tour. One of those was Spain’s Adrian Otaegui, who was drawn to compete alongside the World No. 1 on day two of the season-ending DP World Tour Championship. And strangely in finishing tied at five-under the pair will be out on day three here in Dubai. Their day two pairing brought suggestions of ...

… Jumeirah Estates, Dubai The five Scots teeing-up this week were each tested in sweltering conditions on the opening round of the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. Up front, the England duo of US Open champ, Matthew Fitzpatrick and Tyrrell Hatton, lead the elite 50-player field with seven-under 65s and Fitzpatrick lighting-up the course with five birdies in succession off the bat. However, the birdies dried-up as Fitzpatrick played the closing 11 holes in just two-under. Richie Ramsay ...

  .….  Jumeirah Estates, Dubai Rory McIlroy was in an up-beat mood joking his manager was piloting one of the Red Arrow flypast jets after a ‘rusty’ opening round 71 at the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. The reigning World No. 1 and also DP Tour No. 1 grabbed five birdies in the sauna-like conditions, including an all-important birdie at the last, to be sharing 22nd place on the Earth Course at Jumeirah Estates. The England duo of US Open champ, Matthew Fitzpatrick ...

….. Jumeirah Estates, Dubai Despite a last hole penalty David Law was pretty chuffed in being greeted by a Red Arrows and Emirates Airline flypast moments after his opening round at the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. Law, 31, superbly bounced back in sauna-like conditions from being one-over after nine holes and pick-up to late round birdies but then bizarrely take a preferred lie up the 18th, to incur a one-stroke penalty in an eventual two-under par 70 on the Earth course ...

Double Tour winning Ewen Ferguson admits he’s ‘chilled’ at thoughts in making it a season-ending triple winning treat at DP World Tour Championship (DPWTC) final on the Earth course at Jumeirah Estates in Dubai. Ferguson, 26, is among four Tour members to have won twice this year with Scot capturing the CB Qatar Masters and the ISPA Handa World Invitational. Among those double champs this year is Ryan Fox, currently lying No. 2 on the Race to Dubai, and after losing by a shot last week in South ...

…. Jumierah Estates, Dubai  ​​Super Spaniard Jon Rahm has described as ‘laughable’ the new ranking system in place at the Official World Golf Rankings. Last year’s US Open champ had just been awarded Honorary Membership of the DP World Tour in recognition of his achievement last June but Rahm went from smiles and signs of genuine warmth in receiving the award from European Tour CEO Keith Pelley, to straight-faced and far from thrilled in describing the re-worked ranking ...