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…. Royal Greens GC, Saudi Arabia Past champion Charl Schwartzel insists if there is any tension at this year’s Masters ‘Former Champions Dinner’ it will not be his doing. Augusta National announced five days prior to last Christmas there will be no restriction on the six now LIV Golf past Masters winners including – Phil Mickelson (2006, 2010 and 2014), Schwartzel (2011), Bubba Watson (2012 and ’14), Sergio Garcia (2017), Patrick Reed (2018) and Dustin Johnson (2020) – in being ...

…. Royal Greens GC, Saudi Arabia Graeme McDowell has every reason to be excited ahead of the start of celebrating a 21st pro season along the stunning Red Sea shoreline in Saudi Arabia. McDowell, 43, joins 11 other major champions in the strongest field this new year competing in the $5m PIF Saudi International, again being hosted on the Royal Greens course. The event is special for McDowell having won the then European Tour event in 2020, and for this year it is the second hosting under the ...

….. Royal Greens GC, Saudi Arabia Double Augusta winning Bubba Watson believes Rory McIlroy will win the Masters and in doing so join the most exclusive club in all of golf. GolfByTourMiss spoke exclusively with Watson ahead of this week’s fifth anniversary hosting of the now Asian Tour sanctioned Saudi International at the Royal Greens Club in Saudi Arabia. Watson, now aged 44, was fitted with the first Augusta National green members jacked in 2012 and then a second two years later ...

….  Royal Green GC, Saudi Arabia Double Masters winning Bubba Watson has a particular point to pick with PGA Tour Commissioner, Jay Monahan. It’s nothing to do with the likes of Watson and his fellow LIV Golfers being banned from competing on the PGA Tour. Yes, it does focus on one event just prior to Christmas that is sanctioned by the PGA Tour and that is the unique PNC Championship at the Ritz Carlton course in suburban Orlando. Watson, 44,  has revealed ahead of this week’s fifth ...

….. Emirates Golf Club, Dubai I sit here in the front row of the Media Centre overlooking the ninth and 18th greens at the 2023 Hero Dubai Desert Classic and it’s just not the same. The stunning Majlis host course remains a picture postcard setting but it’s outside the front gates that has changed as the  Dubai, and in a gross understatement, is not the same as when I first attended the European Tour event in 1993. Thirty-years ago the Dubai Golf Club was still then well on the ...

…. Emirates GC, Dubai  Patrick Reed may consider turning left-handed after he borrowed Robert MacIntyre’s putter to hole a lengthy putt just minutes after the Texan’s second round at the Hero Dubai Desert Classic in Dubai. Reed struggled with the putter as reflectred in a score of 70, picking-up three birdies in a five-hole stretch from his eighth to 13th holes ahead of a 15th hole bogey in a score of 70 for his eight-under tally on the Emirates course. Then as the Texan made his way ...

…. Emirates Club, Dubai For a golfer such as Ewen Ferguson growing up and living in Scotland you are used to rain. So in journeying to Dubai and this week’s Hero Dubai Desert Classic you would not expect to be staring at stoppages due to rain, and not just one downpour but many more to further saturate an already soft host Emirates Club course. In fact, 61 millimetres had fallen on the first 18-hole grassed course to be built in Dubai from late Wednesday through to Friday morning. Up ...