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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...