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... Yas Links, Abu Dhabi  Padraig Harrington was delighted with a new season start of fourth as Edinburgh-based Frenchman Victor Perez muscled his way to victory despite a near disaster down the last at the  Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Perez picked-up a seventh pro victory and a third DP World Tour title winning by a shot in posting a closing 66 and an 18-under par triumph over the Yas Links course. Perez, who was a member of last week’s winning European Hero Cup side, was leading by two ...

.. Yas Links, Abu Dhabi Edinburgh-based Frenchman Victor Perez singled out in glowing terms living in golf-mad Scotland as helpful in capturing the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Despite a near-disaster incident down the last, Perez picked-up a seventh pro victory and a third DP World Tour title posting a closing 66 to win by a shot at 18-under-par on the Yas Links course. Perez, and a member of last week’s winning European Hero Cup side, burst from the blocks on the final day of the record-setting ...

…  Yas Links, Abu Dhabi Seamus Power ​ was ​jett​ing​​​ home to Las Vegas slightly disappointed by his efforts this past two weeks but clearly pleased with his game in his debut showing in the Middle East. Power produced a closing round 69, capped by eagling the pair-5 seventh hole though sandwiched in between two bogeys, while he delighted in playing his 10 holes on four-under with back-to-back birdies at 11 and 12​, and with the ​effort over the four days secur​ing him ...

… Yas Links, Abu Dhabi  It continues to speak volumes of Padraig Harrington’s character that he’s intending to reach out to Tour rookie Tom McKibbin, in arranging a practice round ahead of this week’s Hero Dubai Desert Classic. It won’t be your normal practice round as Harrington is arranging what he said will be a ‘Battle with the Nordy’s” with Shane Lowry and himself to team in taking on World No. 1 Rory McIlroy and McKibbin. If was after Harrington’s superb second round ...

… Yas Links, Abu Dhabi  Shane Lowry will bid to win the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship for a second time in four years after muscling his way to the share of the lead heading to the final round of the rich Rolex Series event Yas Links Abu Dhabi. The Irishman posted a six under par round of 66, which included a stunning hole-out eagle ‘2’ at the par four sixth to end his round at 13-under to be sharing the lead with overnight co-leader Francesco Molinari and Australian Min Woo Lee, ...

… Yas Links, Abu Dhabi Newly-engaged Scott Grant Forrest is hoping to bank a whopping £stg 1.3m early wedding prize purse if the Scot can pull off victory in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Forrest, 29, posted a superb ‘moving day’ 65 capped by a seventh hole eagle for a second day running, along with seven birdies, five over his inward half, to be just one shot off the lead at 12-under in the record-setting $US9m event on the Yas Links course. Three players – the back-to-back Open ...

… Yas Links, Abu Dhabi  Padraig Harrington is set to become the oldest winner on the DP World Tour by just 11 days heading to the final round at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Harrington had easily the biggest following over the three days, posting a sizzling eight-un​​der 64 and storming his way into the clubhouse lead at 12-under in glorious conditions on the host Yas Links course. The efforts from 51-year-old Harrington, who won an incredible four times on last year’s over-50s Champions ...