Golf, by TourMiss

Rory McIlroy has ended a 15th full season in the professional ranks on a positive note, creating golfing history in becoming the first player to end a season as a triple No. 1. McIlroy will see out 2022 in some 19 days as World No. 1, PGA Tour No. 1 and now DP World Tour No. 1. This past season he’s won three times on the PGA Tour that helped McIlroy capture a third FedEx Cup title but yet, he did not taste success on the DP World Tour but played strong enough over the season to be crowned European ...

…. Jumeirah Estates, Dubai Min Woo Lee was heading home ‘proud’ of his efforts after a fourth full season on the DP World Tour. Lee, 24, birdied the closing hole for a second day running in a three-under 679 for a seven-under tally and a share of 12th place at the year-ending DP World Tour Championship here on the Earth Course at Jumeirah Estates. The effort handed the Perth golfer an eventual season-ending 34th place on the DP World Tour money-list, and also at the close of the Tour’s ...

…. Jumeirah Estates, Dubai The Scottish foursome of Ewen Ferguson, Robert MacIntyre, Richie Ramsay and Connor Syme were congratulating each other delighted in earning automatic tee-times into next year’s 151st Open Championship at Royal Liverpool. The four brilliantly finished inside top-30 on the DP World Tour money list to book their Hoylake tee-times with Ferguson ending his year 17th, MacIntryre 18th, Ramsay 19th and Syme, jumping four places from 32nd and outside the 30 into 28th place ...

… Jumeirah Estates, Dubai Connor Syme is quietly confident there’s an automatic 2023 Open Championship tee time in his golf bag as a reward heading to his final event of the season at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. Syme, at 33rd on the Race to Dubai money list, is three places shy of the top-30 that at tournament end will be rewarded with a Royal Liverpool tee time while his third round 70 moved him to two-under and just outside the leading 20 in the US$4m season finale. Spaniard ...

…. Jumeirah Estates, Dubai While Rory McIroy is taking the war of words seemingly single-handedly to LIV Golf, he continues to show a respectful side to many of those who joined the breakaway tour. One of those was Spain’s Adrian Otaegui, who was drawn to compete alongside the World No. 1 on day two of the season-ending DP World Tour Championship. And strangely in finishing tied at five-under the pair will be out on day three here in Dubai. Their day two pairing brought suggestions of ...

… Jumeirah Estates, Dubai The five Scots teeing-up this week were each tested in sweltering conditions on the opening round of the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. Up front, the England duo of US Open champ, Matthew Fitzpatrick and Tyrrell Hatton, lead the elite 50-player field with seven-under 65s and Fitzpatrick lighting-up the course with five birdies in succession off the bat. However, the birdies dried-up as Fitzpatrick played the closing 11 holes in just two-under. Richie Ramsay ...

  .….  Jumeirah Estates, Dubai Rory McIlroy was in an up-beat mood joking his manager was piloting one of the Red Arrow flypast jets after a ‘rusty’ opening round 71 at the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. The reigning World No. 1 and also DP Tour No. 1 grabbed five birdies in the sauna-like conditions, including an all-important birdie at the last, to be sharing 22nd place on the Earth Course at Jumeirah Estates. The England duo of US Open champ, Matthew Fitzpatrick ...