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Scotland’s Connor Syme now has a shot at earning around $1.5m if he captures this coming week’s season-ending and limited field DP World Tour Championship in Dubai and all thanks to Ryder Cup heroes Ludwig Aberg and Jon Rahm. Syme learnt of his good fortune soon after posting a closing 70 to share 65th place in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship but in the bigger Race to Dubai picture dropping to 51st and a place outside this week’s 50 players only $10m Race to Dubai closing event. Though ...

Scotland’s Grant Forrest ended what could be described as a steady sixth DP World Tour season ahead of looking forward to a biggest excitement in his life. Forrest posted a closing round of 70 for a seven-under-par tally in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. The 31-year-old arrived in the UAE capital lying 58th on the Race to Dubai money list and needing to be among the top-50 if he was to travel the hour or so drive north to Dubai and compete in this coming week’s DP World Tour Championship. Forrest ...

The Scottish trio of Connor Syme, Calum Hill and Grant Forrest are going to need to go low over the final round of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship if they are to also contest next week’s season-ending DP World Tour Championship. The Tartan trio presently are outside of the leading 50 on the Race to Dubai who will gain entry into the $10m Race to Dubai curtain closer taking place an hour up the road in Dubai. Syme is currently the best placed though being projected to drop three places to 52nd ...

Scot Stephen Gallacher was delighted with his opening round effort ahead of the six-round golfing torture test at the 2025 DP World Tour’s Final Qualifier in Spain. Gallacher posted a two-under-par 69 on the Links course and one of two venues where some 156-players are competing to be among the leading 20 at the close of the six-rounds next Wednesday. The recently turned 50-year-old was the very first out in managing three birdies and a bogey on the par 71 layout at the Infinitum golf resort ...

Top Scot Robert MacIntyre produced a golf bag full of emotions in continuing meltdown conditions on day two of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship in the UAE capital. MacIntyre added a second round 68 to his opening 65 and move into a share of 10th place in the $9m event and the penultimate tournament of the Race to Dubai season. England’s Paul Waring set a new course record, and for a second occasion in his past six events, of an 11-under 61 to grab a five-shot lead at 19-under in continuing heatwave ...

Top Scot Robert MacIntyre produced another ‘colourful’ both word and actions display to be well in contention following the opening round of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. MacIntyre, 28, grabbed nine birdies in ​the very hot meltdown conditions to post a seven-under 65 on the host Yas Links course in the UAE capital. It has the World No. 16 sharing eighth place and just three adrift of England’s and his playing partner Tommy Fleegtwood who heads the elite 70-player and $9m event at 10-under ...

World No. 3 Rory McIlroy believes now second-time US President Donald Trump will have less time to focus on golf after it’s being suggested the now 47th US President’s return to the White House could go a long way also to mend the bridges in the men’s professional game. While recently appearing on the “Let’s Go” Podcast with Jim Gray and Bill Belichick, Trump confidently boasted that he could get a deal done to end the now two-years since LIV Golf was launched. “I do think ...