Lawrie & Phelan Fall Short Of Race To Dubai Finishing Tape
Peter Lawrie and Kevin Phelan return home Saturday morning with nothing to show for their 20,000 klm round trip to Hong Kong.
The Irish pair will be headed next week to the European Tour Q-School after missing the cut in the co-sanctioned event.
Lawrie had been afforded a very late invitation in the hope of rescuing his Tour card for 2016 but struggled from the outset with an opening score of 78 and then faired little better on day two in shooting a 74 that like a day ...
Swede Success In MENA Tour Debut For Blomstrand At Muscat Hills.
Sweden’s Christofer Blomstrand led from start to finish to win the inaugural
Muscat Hills Golf Citizen Championship, making a significant impact on his debut
at the MENA Golf Tour on Wednesday.
A good two shots in front overnight, the 23-year-old Swede had the luxury of
bogeying the final hole and still winning the tournament by one shot on 11-under
after his nearest challenger from Germany, Julian Kunzenbacher, agonizing
missed a 16-footer for birdie.
Spain’s Xavier Puig fired ...
Willett Throws The Turkish Airlines Open & Final Four Series Gauntlet Down At McIlroy.
Danny Willett has thrown the Race to Dubai Final Series gauntlet down at the feet of Rory McIlroy and detemined to push him all the way to the victory tape
Willett, 28 is lying second on the money list some Euro 291,000 adrift of McIlroy but then Willett can wipe out the deficit and go ahead of the four-time Major winning McIlroy with a fourth place finish later next week.
And if Willett needed any incentive it is the superb finish he enjoyed a year ago on the Colin Montgomerie designed course.
There’s ...
Anders Hansen .. “Only Regret Did Not Play Ryder Cup” As Fellow Danes Lead Tour Farewell Tribute.
Top Danish golfer Anders Hansen ended a 20-year European Tour career with just one minor regret that he did not represent Europe in a Ryder Cup.
Hansen turned his back on a long professional career last Sunday after posting a final round 69 to share 22nd place in the Portugal Masters at Vilamoura.
David Williams, Chairman of the European Tour Board of Directors then presented the 45-year old Dane with a gift pack of a wine decanter and wine on the occasion of Hansen’s 420th and final Tour event.
The ...
Craig Lee Staring At 11,000 Mile Hong Kong Round Trip To Cement 2016 Card.
Scotland’s Craig Lee will undertake an 11,000 mile round trip to Hong Kong buoyed by sharing sixth place in the Portugal Masters so as to be assured of earning full 2016 European Tour membership.
The Callaway staff player finished the best of the seven Scots posting the second equal lowest final round of a six-under par 65 for a 12-under par on the Oceanico Victoria course.
England’s Andy Sullivan led from start to finish storming his way to a nine shot victory and become the first playerthis ...
Darren Clarke Suggests Alvaro Quiros Right To Single Out Tour Tortoises.
Ryder Cup captain Darren Clarke agreed Spain’s Alvaro Quiros was right to single out Tour tortoises when he controversially labelled Frenchman Gary Stal a ‘cheater’ on a tense second day at the at the Portugal Masters.
Quiros called for Chief Referee Andy McFee to attend the scorer’s hut straight after the Spaniard signed for a round of 68 on the Oceanico Victoria course.
Quiros and McFee were locked in discussion before being joined by Dane Thomas Bjorn, and Chairman of the Tournament ...
Accusation Of ‘Cheater’ Overshadows Second Round Portugal Masters.
The second round of the Portugal Masters was overshadowed with controversy as Spain’s Alvaro Quiros accusing his French-born playing partner Gary Stal a ‘cheater’.
Now before we go any further Quiros is not accusing the reigning Abu Dhabi HSBC champion of breaking the rule.
Quiros, whose first language is of course Spanish, could have chosen a better word.
However there was no hiding the normally affable Quiros being livid calling for Chief Referee Andy McFee to attend to the scorer’s hut ...
