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For a second year running there will be 56 players lining up for the final tournament sprint to the Race to Dubai winning tape. The normal field of Europe’s top-60 has been cut again by four players and this year with Ernie Els (17th on the Race to Dubai) electing not to play, fellow South African Charl Schwartzel (22nd) who did not qualify in playing just one of the opening three Final Series events. As well, Spain’s Sergio Garcia (13th) also only contested one event of the last four and Sweden’s ...

The European Tour and Rolex have extended their current, long-standing partnership. Rolex has been the proud partner and Official Timekeeper of The European Tour since 1997, encouraging the development, organisation and promotion of golf worldwide. The decade-long extension, which strengthens the position of Rolex as a leading sponsor in golf, will run until 2022 and includes Rolex’s partnership with the Ryder Cup. The renewed deal deepens the historic bond between Rolex, the world’s lead- ing ...

Sweden’s Henrik Stenson indicated it would be ‘the icing on the cake’ if he were to add the European Race to Dubai No. 1 title to his PGA Tour FedEx Cup success. Stenson heads in the opening round of the Tour’s season-ending event leading the money list by Euro 213,468 ($US 287,033) while the leading four players – Stenson, Justin Rose, Graeme McDowell and Ian Poulter) are separated by Euro 343,906 ($US 412,418). Mathematically anyone down to new Turkish Airlines Open champion, Victor Dubuisson ...

It is just after 6.30am Monday morning and the day after Frenchman Victor Dubuisson became the first-ever Turkish Airlines Open champion. There is a few people on the practice putting green but no one on the first tee of the Montgomerie Maxx Royal course. The sun is starting to make its present felt on a morning where there is not a cloud in the sky. I stand on the first tee and I am thinking of the MasterCard advertisement – Priceless. I tee up noticing a man and a woman ahead of me but then ...

Double major winning Rory McIlroy confessed he doesn’t want to see the inside of a lawyer’s office ever again. McIlroy has returned to competition for this week’s defence of the European Tour season-ending DP World Tour Championship at the Jumeriah Estates course in Dubai. The tournament was his last victory when he birdied the closing five holes to defeat England’s Justin Rose and end the season as both the European No. 1 and PGA Tour No. 1. However in the intervening 12 months McIlroy’s ...

The Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open could be headed east of Edinburgh for a first ever occasion and with Gullane N0. 1 high on the European Tour’s list. Since the inaugural event in 1972 the tournament has been staged at just six venues from the inaugural event at Downfield to the Old Course at St. Andrews, Haggs Castle, Gleneagles, Loch Lomond and for the past three years at Castle Stuart in Inverness. Next year’s Scottish Open is bound for Royal Aberdeen. However George O’Grady, CEO ...

Lost in yesterday’s final round of the Turkish Airlines Open was the mark of respect displayed by 14-time Major winning Tiger Woods to Mustafa Kemal Atuturk – the founder of the Republic of Turkey. His surname means ‘The Father of the Turks’ and Sunday marked the anniversary of Atuturk’s passing on 10th November, 1938. Atuturk was the famed military officer who commanded the Turkish Army in their defeat of Allied forces, including Australian and New Zealand troops, at Gallipoli. Woods ...