Golf, by TourMiss

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 ...

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 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 ...

 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 ...

Aaron Rai not only brilliantly denied fellow Englishman Tommy Fleetwood a repeat DP World Tour victory but also superbly held off Grand Slam winning Rory McIlroy a first tournament win in the UAE capital with a birdie at the first extra hole to claim success in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Rai and Fleetwood ended regulation play having pared the par-5 18th with Rai posting a closing 67 and Fleetwood a 66 to send the event into a play-off on the host Yas Links course. The 30-year-old Rai, and ...

Grand Slam winning Rory McIlroy superbly took to the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship overtaking lane in a move to be now assured the keys later next week to a seventh Race to Dubai title. After two days in the slow lanes of the Yas Links course, there was no holding McIlroy back on day three grabbing seven birdies, including four in his opening seven holes on route to an eventual six-under par 66 and now be heading to the final round at 14-under and a share of 12th place. England’s Aaron Rai continues ...

Top Scot Robert MacIntyre has arrived in the UAE for the closing two events of the DP World Tour season and rating his 2025 double winning season an 8 out 10. MacIntyre is returning to competition on a high having been a member of a second victorious European Ryder Cup side and also his stunning success on home ground at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. The current World No. 7 will tee-up in this week’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship currently lying sixth of the Race to Dubai ranking and ...