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Antalya, Turkey … Paul Dunne faces a grinding five event schedule on three different continents before finally bringing down the curtain on his stunning season. The reigning British Masters is contesting this week’s Turkish Airlines in Antalya before signing off on November 26th in far off Hong Kong. Dunne began the biggest golfing trek journeying from Dublin to Shanghai and then last Sunday onto to Turkey.  He will head then to Sun City in South Africa for the Nedbank Challenge before ...

Antalya, Turkey …. Scotland’s Scott Jamieson will be looking to celebrate moving his young family Stateside by ending a four-year winless European Tour drought at this week’s Turkish Airlines Open. The Scot revealed he is taking his family of four to Ponte Vedre in Florida and just ‘down the road’ from Jacksonville where top-ranked Scot Russell Knox is based. Jamieson, who had gone to college in Florida, will from January 2018 contest the European Tour from his new Florida home ...

Antalya, Turkey … Justin Rose has conceeded the European Tour ‘Golfer of the Year’ award to Sergio Garcia even if the Englishman should win the Race to Dubai title. The ‘Golfer of the Year’ award is presented in the weeks following the conclusion to the European Tour season. Garcia is standout favourite to win the honour for a first occasion in his career and on the back on his Masters play-off victory over Rose earlier this year at Augusta National. And even should Rose capture this ...

Antalya, Turkey … Padraig Harrington will introduce 13-year son Paddy to the international golf stage when the duo contest next month’s Father and Son event in suburban Orlando. Some of the greats of the game have competed and won the two-day event including Jack Nicklaus with son Gary while double Major winning John Daly teamed last year with son, John Junior. And it was also last year, David Duval and his stepson won the Willie Park Trophy and a huge slice of the $US 1.085m prize purse ...

Antalya, Turkey ….  Richie Ramsay remains determined to end the season not only as the European Tour’s highest-ranked Scot but secure a first Scot success on Tour in over two years. Ramsay is among five Scots contesting this week’s Turkish Airlines Open on the stunning Regnum Carya course near Antalya. The Edinburg-based Ramsay is currently 24th on the Race to Dubai and already two places higher than his Race to Dubai season best of 28th in 2011. And while Russell Knox was the last ...

Antalya, Turkey ….  Fellow Major winners Justin Rose and Padraig Harrington stressed the importance on not placing too much expectation on Tiger Woods return to competition. Woods announced he will tee-up later this month at his own Hero World Challenge at the exclusive Albany resort course in the Bahamas. It will be the 14-time Major winner’s first appearance inside the ropes since Woods withdrew ahead of the second round in last January’s European Tour Dubai Desert Classic. Rose, remarkable ...

Antalya, Turkey …  Tommy Fleetwood believes he will not only need to win the Race to Dubai title but also one other tournament victory this season if he is to deny Sergio Garcia being voted European Tour ‘Golfer of the Year’ award. Fleetwood currently enjoys a Euro 886,770 Race to Dubai advantage over Garcia as the young Englishman seeks to be crowned European Tour Number One. And while Garcia has spoken in recent weeks of his desire to emulate the efforts of the late, great Seve Ballasteros ...