“When I’m Old & Probably Bald” … Lowry Forsees The Days Reliving Ryder Cup Memories With Kids & Grandkids.

Shane Lowry has already created enough memories in his golfing career to ensure Dublin’s famed Croke Park will be overflowing. Top of this career list must be winning the 2019 Open Championship on home soil while there’s the overwhelming joy across the length-and-breath of Ireland when he sensationally captured the 2009 Irish Open as an amateur, a victory that didn’t earn him a cent but it afforded Lowry the wealth of a two-year DP World Tour exemption. Three years later he captured ...

Scot Leads Ten ‘Race To Mallorca’ Finalists Heading Down Under For 2026 DPWT Season-Opener

It has been officially confirmed Scotland’s David Law will make his 2026 DP World Tour (DPWT) debut in leading 10 Hotel Planner Tour graduates heading ‘Down Under’ later this month for the BMW Australian PGA Championship. Law superbly finished second at the recent ‘Race to Mallorca’ final in Spain to regain his DPWT membership and will be joined by Kingsbarns attached Daniel Young who attained his membership after finishing 11th on the Spanish holiday isle. The Tartan ...

Down Under Has A New Golfing Hero After McKinney Secures DP World Tour Status.

Connor McKinney will have wasted little time arranging his return flight home to Australia so as he can prepare for his up-coming, back-to-back tournament debut on the DP World Tour. McKinney will be in celebration mode after superbly keeping his composure and very much letting his clubs do all the talking in sharing second place to secure his 2026 DP Tour membership card thanks to a sixth and final round 69, and be among three players to finish on 24-under on the host Infinitum Golf (Lakes & ...

Al Hamra Enriches A Middle East Golfing Gem

One of the more recent delights in travelling to the Middle East for rounds of the DP World Tour has been visiting the UAE emirate of Ras Al-Khaimah and tackling the wonderful Al Hamra course. Al Hamra is very easy 90-minute or so drive north of Dubai through the Emirate of Sharjah and onto Ras Al-Khaimah, and with the golf course and surrounding hotels among the first items of interest in visiting a very laid back emirate than compared with Dubai. Among those ‘items’ is the stunning ...

McIlroy’s Season Of Honours Continue With New Tour Award – All That Remains Is ‘Sir Rory’ Knighthood?

It has truly been a season of honours for Rory McIlroy with the real likelihood at year’s end of King Charles 111 bestowing a knighthood on the Northern Irishman. First it was winning a maiden Masters and becoming only the sixth golfer to capture the coveted Grand Slam. McIlroy was then a member of historic European Ryder Cup team with the team winning back-to-back encounters in Europe and the USA, and both under Luke Donald’s captaincy. Today we have learned the DP World Tour has commissioned ...

Aaron Rai’s Turns His Up-Coming Honeymoon Into Million Euro Celebration

Aaron Rai can now turn next fortnight’s overdue honeymoon into a 1.3m Euro celebration. That’s how much Rai collected after his stunning play-off victory at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship in the UAE capital. For a second time in their careers Rai and fellow Englishman Tommy Fleetwood found themselves in a play-off for a major DP World Tour title and for a second occasion Rai defeated Fleetwood for the first prize purse, five years after denying Fleetwood for another major bank sponsored ...

Syme Breaths Sign Of Relief As All Five Scots Safely Heading North To Dubai Season Final

 Connor Syme could breath a wee sigh of relief after securing the penultimate last place into this coming week’s top-50 Race to Dubai (R2D) season final in Dubai. The reigning KLM Open champion looked like he could be flying home after a horror opening two hole start to the final round of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Syme was three-over after two holes and managed to regroup thanks to four birdies over his next 10 holes.  There was more anxiety for the Fifer when he dropped a shot at ...