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Paul McGinley says incumbent and fellow Irish-born Ryder Cup captain Darren Clarke won’t need any advice or tips ahead of September’s showdown at Hazeltine. McGinley, along with Spain’s Sergio Garcia, were introduced to the audience attending Tuesday night’s Commercial Bank Qatar Masters Pro-Am dinner in the stunning St. Regis Hotel at The Pearl complex in Doha. “No Darren doesn’t need any tips from me,” said McGinley who is contesting this week’s event here in Doha. “It does ...

Dubai based Scot Clarke Lutton created not only a rare European Tour first but a Doha first in posting a four under par 68 on day one of the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters in Doha. Lutton, 32 moved with his family from Aberdeen to the Middle East when he was just 13 years of age and was afforded an invitation in the event following last October’s MENA (Middle East & North African) Golf Citizen Classic at the Els Club in Dubai. Lutton had lived for a long time in Doha but in recent years has ...

Michael Hoey was pretty pleased with himself posting a first ever bogey-free of the New Year on day one of the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters. The Northern Irishman Hoey carded a four under par 68 in bright but windy conditions to be just three shots adrift of the leading duo of South African Louis Oosthuizen and Spain’s Pablo Larrazabal. Hoey posted two birdies on each half and in a display in finding all but one green in regulation on the Doha Golf Club course. It was first time in four years ...

Paul Lawrie ignited hopes of becoming the first player to capture three Commercial Bank Qatar Masters ‘Mother of Pearl’ trophies in Doha. Lawrie bounced back from an opening three-putt from 15-feet to snatch six birdies, including four in a five-hole stretch from the sixth hole, in a round of a five under par 67 in bright but windy conditions on the Doha Golf Club course. Spain’s Pablo Larrazabal and South African Louis Oosthuizen head the field posting 65s to be one clear of three players, ...

It’s been a six-year long wait but Andrew McArthur is determined to make the most of retaining full European Tour membership and stating at this week’s Commercial Bank Qatar Masters in Doha. The Lanark-born McArthur turned pro in 2005 but it was not to 2010 he gained his European Tour card graduating off the secondary Challenge Tour. Back then McArthur was not married nor did he have two children, a boy turning five in March and a daughter 16 months old. However after securing 12th place in last ...

Paul McGinley celebrates the start of a 25th season teeing up today (WED) on the Doha Golf Club course in Qatar in what will be the first of a dozen events in his final year on the European Tour. McGinley is among four players in the field to have first competed in Doha in 1998 however the sky-scrapper Qatar capital skyline nowadays mirrors nothing like a virtual barren desert landscape that greeted McGinley, David Howell and Paul Lawrie 18 years ago. The Doha Golf Club course was then well on the ...

Former Open Champion Louis Oostuizen has arrived for his first event of 2016 sporting a full-grown beard. The South African, and current World No. 18, joins a host of European Tour players sporting plenty of facial hair including compatriot and defending Commercial Bank Qatar Masters champion, Branden Grace. “The beard has been on for much of my off-season and it was only the other day I trimmed it for a photo shoot,” said Oosthuizen. “We did a 4 x 4 trip in to the Namib Desert, ...