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A decision by World No. 1 Rory McIlroy and fellow Open champ Shane Lowry along with possibly two to three other GB & I stars ruling themselves out of GB & I team selection could see Ewen Ferguson join fellow Scot Bob MacIntyre in January’s inaugural Hero Cup in Abu Dhabi. McIlroy and Lowry have formally advised officials they will not be competing while there is doubt also both Tyrrell Hatton and possibly US Open champ Matt Fitzpatrick will skip the team event. It will leave GB & I ...

  World No. 1 Rory McIlroy along with DP World Tour championship winner Jon Rahm along with superstar Norwegian Vicktor Hovland have advised organisers they will be unavailable for the 2023 inaugural Hero Cup, and with teams for the Abu Dhabi event to be announced later this week. The Hero Cup will feature two 10-player GB & I and European sides playing a Ryder Cup format over the National course at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club from the 13th to 15th January. England’s Tommy Fleetwood will ...

  For the first time in many a year Scotland’s current five top golfers, who competed last week in the Dubai season-ender, have not had to rush off to South Africa for the opening events of a new season. It means the clubs being packed away and no scorecard in their back pockets till at least the second week of January. The five, and in order of their final 2022 DP World final money-list standings – Ewen Ferguson (17th), Robert MacIntyre (19th), Richie Ramsay (19th), Connor Syme (28th) ...

Rory McIlroy has ended a 15th full season in the professional ranks on a positive note, creating golfing history in becoming the first player to end a season as a triple No. 1. McIlroy will see out 2022 in some 19 days as World No. 1, PGA Tour No. 1 and now DP World Tour No. 1. This past season he’s won three times on the PGA Tour that helped McIlroy capture a third FedEx Cup title but yet, he did not taste success on the DP World Tour but played strong enough over the season to be crowned European ...

…. Jumeirah Estates, Dubai Min Woo Lee was heading home ‘proud’ of his efforts after a fourth full season on the DP World Tour. Lee, 24, birdied the closing hole for a second day running in a three-under 679 for a seven-under tally and a share of 12th place at the year-ending DP World Tour Championship here on the Earth Course at Jumeirah Estates. The effort handed the Perth golfer an eventual season-ending 34th place on the DP World Tour money-list, and also at the close of the Tour’s ...

…. Jumeirah Estates, Dubai The Scottish foursome of Ewen Ferguson, Robert MacIntyre, Richie Ramsay and Connor Syme were congratulating each other delighted in earning automatic tee-times into next year’s 151st Open Championship at Royal Liverpool. The four brilliantly finished inside top-30 on the DP World Tour money list to book their Hoylake tee-times with Ferguson ending his year 17th, MacIntryre 18th, Ramsay 19th and Syme, jumping four places from 32nd and outside the 30 into 28th place ...

… 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 ...