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…. Dubai, UAE  Rory McIlroy has vowed not to touch his clubs again till the New Year after one of the most successful seasons of his now dozen-year pro career. McIlroy signed his season with a tired-looking final round 74 for fourth place at 12-under at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. It was not the result the great majority of fans in attendance at Jumeirah Estates and McIlroy had wished as he sought a career first of winning the same event three times but also end the year, and ...

… Dubai, UAE  Frenchman Mike Lorenzo-Vera is already dreaming of a ‘prize’ for himself in taking a three-shot lead into the final two rounds of the DP World Tour Championship here in Dubai. Lorenzo-Vera had set the course alight on day one in posting a blistering nine-under par 63 and added a day two 69 for a 12-under par tally. The 34-year old Bayonne golfer is yet to win on the European Tour and would have ended five shots clear had it not been for bogeys on 15 and then three-putting ...

….. Dubai, UAE  World No. 2 Rory McIlroy epitomised the phrase two days after never the same in golf in posting a horror second round 74 at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. McIlroy, and a day after signing for a ‘could have played the course blindfolded’ 64, struggled to be the only layer inside the top-10 not to break par on the Jumeirah Estates course. His two-over par score sent McIlroy tumbling for second on the board and back into a share of fifth place at six-under par in ...

…. Dubai, UAE  Rory McIlroy singled out former Walker Cup team-mate and fellow Ulster golfer Jonathon Caldwell for special praise in regaining his European Tour card. Caldwell, 35 posted a final round 67 in the six-round Q-School to official finish 19th and be among the leading 25 to earn full 2020 main Tour membership. It has been 12-years since McIlroy and Caldwell were paired in 2007 Walker Cup at Royal Co. Down but with the GB & I team going down by a point to a USA team boasting ...

.… Dubai, UAE World No. 2 Rory McIlroy gave the thumbs-up to stand-in caddy, Niall O’Connor after the pair gelled superbly for McIlroy to post a sizzling eight-under par 64 on day one of the DP World Tour Championship here in Dubai. The former multi-capped Ulster fly-half is filling-in for McIlroy’s final event of 2019 while regular caddy, Harry Diamond is at home with his wife and new baby daughter. McIlroy, and with the proud Castlerock member helping call the shots completed the ...

…Dubai, UAE  Rory McIlroy lived-up to a cheeky pre-event ‘I can play the course blindfolded’ threat to make his rivals seriously take notice in posting a sizzling 64 on the opening day of the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. Mike Lorenzo-Vera heads the elite field of 50 ending with four straight birdies in a score of a nine-under par 63 but already looming large in the Frenchman’s rear-view mirror is McIlroy. McIlroy looked again in a class of his own and pulling-off ...

With the Race to Dubai victory tape in sight, Austrian powerhouse golfer Bernd Wiesberger is determined to end his most successful season at European No. 1. The 34-year old Vienna-born Wiesberger had to sit out much of 2018 through injury but he’s returned to the Tour in barnstorming manner with an impressive 2019 campaign, winning three times, including Rolex Series titles at the Aberdeen Standard Investments Scottish Open and the Italian Open. After a tied third place finish at last week’s ...