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Great news for the European Tour with Rory McIlroy looking likely to be kick-starting 2021 and his 14th full season in the pro ranks teeing-up at the 2021 Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship in the UAE capital. McIlroy has not contested the event since 2018 and confirmation of his teeing-up in the UAE capital comes after the 2020 European Tour season ended last weekend with McIlroy not teeing-up on European Tour soil for a first time since turning professional at the end of 2007. The four-time major winner ...

It has been just a handful of years since Crail Golfing Society proudly became the oldest club in Scotland to appoint its first female captain, and now golf’s seventh oldest club has appointed one of the Home of Golf nation’s youngest Captains. Max Baillie, at 27-years of age, is believed to be one of the youngest currently acting in the role as Captain in some 550 clubs under the Scottish Golf umbrella. Historically, Max is the youngest to accept the Crail captaincy reins since the Society’s ...

Padraig Harrington could be staring captaining a European Team later next year sporting a 24-year age difference between his oldest and youngest in his Whistling Straits side. That’s if triple European Tour No. 1 Lee Westwood and Norwegian sensation, Vicktor Hovland qualify for Harrington’s 2021 side. Qualifying has been ‘frozen’ since early July and resumes on the 1st January, 2021. And when it does, you can be assured both Westwood and Hovland will be rubbing shoulders for Harrington’s ...

Robert MacIntyre returns to Oban guttered after a ‘disastrous’ last round of the season and losing out two-fold in the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. MacIntyre let slip an automatic end-of-year invitation into next April’s Masters and also missed out on joining Sandy Lyle as the only back-to-back ‘Rookie of the Year’ and also European No. 1 the following year, in a horror final round 77. The Oban lefty finished a whopping 10 shots behind England’s Matthew Fitzpatrick who ...

Robert MacIntyre is headed for a golf bag full of career firsts should he capture the European No. 1 crown. MacIntyre brilliantly burst in frame to join fellow Scot Sandy Lyle as only two players in 60-years to win the ‘Rookie of the Year’ one year and No. 1 European crown the next after a stunning DP World Tour Championship bogey-free third day 66 on the Earth course at Jumeirah Estates course in Dubai. As well, MacIntyre would also be the first Scot in 15-years since Colin Montgomerie ...

Graeme McDowell ended his ‘very strange year’ on a disappointing note with a back injury ruling him out of the final two rounds at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. McDowell birdied the last hole in a bogey-laden second round four-over par 76 that handed him a five-over par tally in the no-cut event on the Earth course. ‘G Mac’, and returning to Jumeirah Estates for a first occasion since 2014, was then lying in a share of 58th in the 65-player season-ending European Tour ...

Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre pulled-off his ‘up-and-down’ of the at the last on day two of the DP World Tour Championship to keep alive an invitation to next April’s Masters. The official World Rankings body released its ‘Week 50’ projections just ahead MacIntyre posting a clearly frustrating second round level par 72 to drop 10 spots into a share of 12th at four-under par on the Earth course at Jumeirah Estates. The Oban lefty now needs to pick-up at least eight spots over the closing ...