Gallacher & Ramsay Send Saltire High In Abu Dhabi.
Stephen Gallacher and Richie Ramsay combined to send the Saltire flying high in the UAE capital with a pair of 68s on the opening day of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship.
Both Scots had been sharing the lead early in their rounds before settling for a share of eighth place and only just two strokes from the lead.
European No. 1 and defending Abu Dhabi champion, Tommy Fleetwood along with Japan’s Hideto Tanihara shared the first day honours with six-under par 66s while four-time Major winning Rory ...
McIlroy Does Well To Stay Patient After Frustrating Return With The Putter In Abu Dhabi.
Rory McIlroy did well to stay patient after a frustrating return to competition with the putter by birding two of his closing three holes on day one of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship.
McIlroy needed 34 putts in a bogey-free three-under par 69 that left him trailing three shots behind European No. 1 and defending champion, Tommy Fleetwood and Japan’s Hideto Tanihara.
In fact, McIlroy stood over 17 putts for birdie and sank just three.
Fleetwood upstaged both playing partners in McIlroy and World ...
McDowell First New Year Goal To Improve His Flagging World Ranking.
Graeme McDowell reckons there’s but one option after ending last season with a poorest World Ranking in 15 years.
McDowell tees-up for a first time in 2018 joining Rory McIlroy and Paul Dunne in this week’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship.
It is also a first occasion ‘G Mac’ will have competed in the UAE capital since finishing third in 2012.
It was a decision McDowell gave much consideration over the Festive Season break and torn beteeem starting the New Year in Palm Springs ...
McIlroy Warns USA Ryder Cup Rivals Paris Will Be ‘Different Kettle Of Fish’ To Hazeltine.
Rory McIlroy returns to competition this week in the UAE excited to be again fully fit and also brimming with confidence the Ryder Cup will return to European hands later this year in Paris.
Of course, McIlroy first has to make the European Team but he would seem a certainity in making Thomas Bjorn’s side whether or not he qualifies automatically.
And after the disappointment of Hazeltine, and the first time McIlroy had been on a losing European Team, the four-time Major winner has fired his ...
McIlroy Returns Ready To Roar.
Rory McIlroy has ended a three-month competiton break ready to roar and declaring himself fully fit ahead of embarking on one of the busiest starts to his new season.
He tees-up this week in the ASbu Dhabi HSBC Championship in the first event of his 11th season in the pro ranks looking to quickly make ammends for a winless and injury-riddled 2017 .
And McIlroy could ask for no sterner test than to be grouped for the opening two rounds in the company of World No. 1 Dustin Johnson and European No. ...
McIlroy’s Bright Lights Return Could In UAE Darkness.
Rory McIlroy’s much-awaited light-up return this New Year to competition could end up under floodlights according to the European Tour.
The Tour is considering playing next week’s Dubai Desert Classic, and where McIlroy won his first pro event, under state-of-the-art floodlights at the ninth and 18th holes of the Majis course at the host Emirates Club.
McIlroy’s won the Desert Classic twive but it’s not sure how he will take to the notion of finishing his round under artificial ...
Russell Knox Not Alone Fearing The Worst After Hawaiian Ballistic Missile Alert.
Top-ranked Scottish golfer Russell Knox was not alone in fearing the worst after waking-up to a in-coming ballistic missile alert.
All inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands were naturally at first scared when at 8.07am local time mobile phone owners began receiving text messages: “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.”
An alert also went across local television screens describing how a missile threat was detected that “may impact on land ...
