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​​Dubai, UAE …. Rory McIlroy joked he’s heading into his Christmas/New Year break looking for a ‘brain transplant’ after ending his year well down the board at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. McIlroy was clearly in a ‘glad the season is over’ mood in posting a final round 73 for an eight-under par tally for a distant share of 21st place in the year-ending European Tour event at Jumeirah Estates. If left McIlroy trailing 10 shots behind England’s Danny Williett ...

Dubai, UAE …. It has been more than two years since Danny Willett captured the hearts of the golfing world in winning the Masters at Augusta National. In being fitted with the famed Augusta members green jacket, Willett rose to No. 11 in the world but in battling back injury and also after missing a fourth cut in a row at this year’s BMW PGA Championship, the affable Englishman had plunged to No. 462nd in the rankings. Now after a strong seventh place finish in the recent Turkish Airlines ...

Dubai, UAE …. Rory McIlroy was very sympathetic after a bizarre incident at the European Tour Q-School final round that help to deny fellow Irish golfer Cormac Sharvin his 2019 full European Tour card. It has emerged Sharvin had incorrectly teed-up in Thursday’s sixth and final round from not behind the tee markers on the Lumine course at Tarragona in Spain. Sharvin was completing his swing at the par-3 seventh hole when German playing partner, Alexander Knappe noticed the Irishman was marginally ...

Dubai, UAE …. Russell Knox somewhat lost his appetite after posting a one-over par 73 on the opening day of his maiden DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. Knox managed two birdies along with one bogey but sticking out on his scorecard like the proverbial dog’s hind leg was a sixth hole double-bogey where he found water with his tee shot. It left the lone Scot in the field seven shots adrift of the leading duo of England’s Jordan Smith and Spaniard Adrian Otaegui who posted six-under par ...

Dubai, UAE … Paul Dunne bravely continues to struggle for the correct answers after gabbing five birdies in a disappointing level par 72 on the opening day of the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. Dunne was one-under par through 12 holes before playing the next five holes in one-over to be trailing seven shots behind the leading duo of Spaniard Adrian Ortego and England’s Jordan Smith who shot 66s in very hot conditions on the Jumeirah Estates course. European No. 1 elect Francesco Molinari ...

Dubai, UAE …. England’s Matt Wallace bravely saw a lighter side after being slapped with a £3,000 ‘slow play’ fine on his debut at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. This season’s triple Tour winning Wallace was adjudged to have taken too long to putt out for par on the ninth hole and this after bizarrely being timed in birdiing both the seventh and eighth holes on the Earth Course. The Tour’s Chief Referee, Andy McFee was waiting for Wallace as he headed to the scorer’s ...

Dubai, UAE …. Rory McIlroy has brushed-off criticism following a likely decision note to take-up 2019 European Tour membership. McIlroy hinted earlier this week he would likely contest just two ‘pure’ European Tour events up to July’s Open Championship and hence the need not to be a European Tour member and in what will be a non-Ryder Cup year. It could see McIlroy also choosing not teeing-up in his ‘home’ Irish Open and instead contest the following week’s ...