Golf, by TourMiss

  … Jumeirah Estates, Dubai Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry got their first look on Monday at a slightly less tree-lined Earth host course, host venue for this week’s DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. The Irish duo were the only players out early on a very hot Dubai morning after jetting-in the day prior from their respective Bears Club estate residences in Florida ahead of playing just nine holes and heading for pre-noon lunch in the comfort of the air-conditioned clubhouse. McIlroy ...

.… Jumeriah Estates, Dubai China’s Haitong Li is no stranger to Dubai and, in fact, just shy of five years ago he stunned the golf world by keeping Rory McIlroy at arms reach to capture the Omega Dubai Desert Classic. Li, 27, has returned to Dubai but under different circumstances having only learnt over the weekend at the Nedbank Challenge he could be teeing-up in this week’s season-ending DP Tour Championship. The top Chinese golfer, and with seven pro victories to his credit including ...

… Jumeirah Estates Resort, Dubai  The field for the season-ending DP World Tour Championship has been officially confirmed. There will be a field of 50 players teeing-up Thursday on the Earth Course here at Jumeirah Estates. Tournament Director Freddie Schmeisser confirmed to GolfByTourMiss that China’s Hao Tong Lee, currently ranked 53rd on the DP World Tour money-list, is the last player into the US$10m event. Three players inside the top-53 will not tee-up and they include American ...

  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 ...