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Tiger Woods has expressed uncertainty as currently being on the menu for this year’s Masters Champions Dinner at Augusta National. The annual dinner is two months away but the five-time Masters winning Woods, and in returning to PGA Tour competition at this week’s Genesis Invitational and a first ‘regular’ Tour event since October 2020, was asked his thoughts ahead of this week’s Genesis Invitational in attending the Augusta dinner where half-a-dozen fellow Masters winners ...

… Muscat, Oman Allowing players to wear shorts in this early part of a new season is to be applauded. The Asian Tour has now ruled to allow their players the choice in all but a few events to wear shorts in the sauna-like conditions of the Middle East and then when the Tour heads into the heat and extreme humidity of Asia. You can look back to November 2016 when the Sunshine Tour and European Tour first allowed the wearing of shorts for all days of a tournament at Leopard Creek, and venue for ...

…. Muscat, Oman England’s Steve Lewton can be proud of his efforts in finishing fourth despite the hurt of a mid-round nightmare over the final round of the International Series Oman. Lewton, 39, posted a closing round 71 in the continuing blustery conditions that eventually saw just 12 players break par over the four days from an original starting line-up of 132 taking to the stunning Al Mouj course in Muscat. The six-time tour winning Lewton had missed the cut a week earlier at the ...

…. Muscat, Oman Japan’s Takumi Kanaya has brilliantly stormed his way to success in the inaugural International Series Oman at the Al Mouq course in Muscat. Kanaya, 24, won a fourth pro career title and a first outside his native Japan with scores of 69, 71, 67 and a closing 71 in continuing windy conditions to win by four shots on the course laid out along the Gulf of Oman shoreline. Kanaya burst onto the world stage as an amateur, and emerging from the smoke and haze from serious bushfire ...

…  Muscat, Oman  Sergio Garcia mirrored the delight of the golf world with news Tiger Woods will return to formal competition at this week’s Tiger Woods Foundation hosting of the Genesis Invitational in Santa Monica. Woods has not played ‘individual’ competition since the emotional scenes last July in missing the halfway cut at the 150th Open Championship at St. Andrews. The 15-time major winner was due tee-up earlier in December in the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas but withdrew ...

… Muscat, Oman Four-time major winner Brooks Koepka has missed the high six-over par cut by two shots with scores of 74 & 78 in the inaugural Asian Tour’s Oman event on day two of the $US 2m event in Muscat. The extremely windy conditions, and up to very late in the afternoon, saw no player break 70 on day two while just eight of 126 players managed to better par of 72 on the exposed Al Mouj course laid out along the Gulf of Oman. Japan’s Takumi Kanaya, and a former world amateur ...

… Muscat, Oman Graeme McDowell could be mistaken he was not back home in wintery Portrush battling the windy conditions coming in off a whipped-up Gulf of Oman to superbly make the cut at the inaugural Asian Tour International Series event in Oman. There was a real spring in McDowell’s step coming up the last in posting a level par 72 for a one-over tally, to be lying inside the top-20 heading to the weekend rounds in the $US 2m event on the host Al Mouj course in Muscat. After two bogeys ...