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Rory McIlroy has set himself the goal of winning two of his closing three events this season to rescue a ‘lost season’. The four-time Major winner won twice earlier this year in capturing the Omega Dubai Desert Classic and the WGC – Cadillac Match-Play Championship. However his heavily-publicised ankle injury ruined chances for McIlroy to capture a fifth Major. McIlroy is competing in only his 10th Race to Dubai event at this week’s Turkish Airlines Open after being given special  allowance ...

Clarke Lutton ensured the Scottish flag keeps flying at the Ghala Open after overnight leader Ted Innes-Ker slipped off the pace, going into the final round of the MENA Golf Tour’s event on Tuesday. A good two shots behind at the start, Lutton returned a tidy four-under 68 to reach seven-under for the tournament, one ahead of England’s Luke Joy and two clear of Stuart Archibald and Lee Corfield. Spain’s Sixto Casabona-navarro and Max Williams of England shared fifth on four under as three players, ...

England’s Danny Willett has four-time Major winning Rory McIlroy set firmly in his sights as he heads towards the business end of the European Tour season and the lucrative, four-event Final Series. The Englishman is 271,214 points and one place behind McIlroy in The Race to Dubai, but with 32 million points on offer over the next four weeks – starting with this week’s Turkish Airlines Open – he has plenty of opportunity to rein in his rival. A win at the first event of the 2016 campaign, ...

A new chapter in the history of the MENA Tour will unfold next week when current Ryder Cup Captain Darren Clarke competes in the Ras Al Khaimah Classic in the UAE. It will be the first occasion also a present member of the European Tour will contest a MENA Tour tournament. Clarke was meant to be joined by fellow ISM stablemate Matthew Fitzpatrick but after capturing the British Masters the England-born Fitzpatrick will instead be teeing-up in Shanghai. Clarke will headline the penultimate event ...

It was a case of ‘Mission Accomplished’ for the Scottish golfing duo of Craig Lee and Scott Jamieson after securing automatic 2016 European Tour membership Lee and Jamieson undertook a 12,000 round trip to Hong Kong in a goal to cement full playing rights for next season. They did that in first making the Hong Kong Open halfway cut ahead of confirmation yesterday (SUN) with both finishing inside the top-110 on the Race to Dubai money list. Lee picked up two spots to end his fourth full season in succession in 101st ...

England’s Justin Rose has added his name to a honour roll of some great champions in banking the UBS Hong Kong Open in suburban Fanling. The highest World Ranked player in the field had to dig deep winning by a shot over Dane Lucas Bjerregaard. Rose bogeyed the last in a two under par 68 for a 17-under par winning tally and claim a seventh European Tour title and his fist since capturing last year’s Scottish Open. Bjerregaard never recovered from a 14th hole double bogey. “Lucas ...

Scotland’s Craig Lee and Scott Jamieson could breath a lot easier in making the cut in the Hong Kong Open. The Scottish duo embarked on the 12,000 mile round trip in a last tournament effort to wrap-up full 2016 European Tour membership. Lee grabbed five birdies in a 67 to be tied on two under par with Jamieson who capped a similar 67 with a third hole eagle and then birdied three of his closing six holes. Lee and Jamieson arrived in the former colonial stronghold lying a respective 103 and 106th on the Race to Dubai money list with 111th the cut off point tomorrow night (SUN) for the year. Lee said:  “Making the cut is a huge bonus and I can breathe ...