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  Gary Hurley declared he’s ‘firmly in the saddle’ heading to today’s ( Mon) important cut-off point for 2023 membership qualification of the DP World Tour in Spain. Hurley, 29, shares sixth place at 10-under and five shots behind Swede Simon Forrstram, who heads the starting 156-player field by two shots at 15-under ahead of the cut being after Monday’s fourth round on the two Infinitum course at Tarragona. The leading 25 players at the close of Wednesday’s ...

European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald was leading by example on the opening day of the 40th anniversary Nedbank Challenge at Sun City in South Africa. Donald, 44, entered the event, of course, with a first goal of victory or he would not have crossed the equator to tee-up and, if so, it would be a first DP World Tour winning toast in over a decade since capturing his four-shot 2012 BMW PGA Championship win. No, most golf observers will know that in the bigger picture Donald has returned to ‘South ...

Set your Rolex watch as the elite players on the DP World Tour will contest the prestigious DP World Tour Championship, Dubai at the Jumeirah Golf Estates from 17–20 November, with Rolex returning as the Official Timekeeper for this final event of the 2022 season. Founded in 2009, the championship is the fifth and final Rolex Series event of the year which will determine the winner of the season-long DP World Tour Rankings Presented by Rolex. Jumeirah’s Earth Course, set against Dubai’s shimmering ...

Scottie Scheffler’s odds are now even shorter in his quest to return to World No. 1 at this week’s hosting of the Cadence Bank Houston Open. The US$8.4m event is the eighth on the 2022/23 wraparound PGA Tour schedule and takes place at the Memorial Park course just to the west of the city centre in America’s fourth largest city. Rory McIlroy dethroned Scheffler as World No. 1 in successfully defending last month’s CJ Cup in South Carolina. In the absence of McIlroy last week at the World ...

​​ There is certain to be three Irish in Tommy Fleetwood’s GB & I team for next January’s inaugural Hero Cup in Abu Dhabi. Fleetwood has been named as one captain and with Francesco Molinari to captain a 10-man European Team ​and with the team event ​taking early January on the National course at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club. Of course, it was Fleetwood and Molinari who came together so sensationally​ ​forming their now famed ​unbeaten ​‘Moliwood’ partnership at the 2018 Ryder ...

The R&A and the USGA have unveiled a regular update to the Rules of Golf as they seek to make the Rules easier to understand and apply. The new Rules will go into effect on 1 January 2023. And one of the major changes announced is that you can replace a broken club during the course of competition, but only if the club was broken in the course of playing a shot. It does not include breaking a club through anger etc. The 2023 edition continues the modernisation process, with an emphasis on both ...

​Seamus Power has bumped Rory McIlroy off his No. 1 spot on the FedEx Cup standings with another impressive showing in finishing in a five-way share of third place at the World Wide Technologies Mayakoba Championship in Mexico. Power posted a closing three-under-par 68 for an 18-under-par total at Riviera Maya on Mexico’s north-east Caribbean shoreline. American Russell Henley strolled his way seemingly at ease to his fourth PGA Tour triumph, signing for a one-under 70 to win by four shots at ...