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Dubai, UAE … Danny Willett has bravely ended a 953-day winless drought to claim the biggest prize on the European Tour with victory in the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. Despite a near disaster at the last, Willett managed to brilliantly save par a round of 68 and win by two shots with an 18-under par tally. The win is Willett’s second victory in Dubai after claiming the 2016 Omega Dubai Desert Classic but a first since April that year when he won the Masters. The 31-year-old’s ...

Dubai, UAE  …. Rory McIlroy reckons he’s prepared to give it one last shot this season and close-off 2019 with a 64 on the final day of the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. McIlroy had moved to 10-under par and only four shots from the lead with a birdie at the 15th hole on day three of the season-ending European Tour event and also the finale of the Rolex Series. That was before finding the water guarding the green at the par-3 17th and walking-off with a gut-wrenching double-bogey ...

Dubai, UAE … England’s Tommy Fleetwood has conceded the European No. 1 crown to good friend, Francesco Molinari. Fleetwood, and the reigning European No. 1, confessed his ‘time was up’ after posting a third round 74 for a six-under par total on day three of the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. It left Fleetwood trialing eight shots adrift of the Masters winning leading duo of American Patrick Reed (67) and England’s Danny Willett (68). Molinari, like Fleetwood, has ...

Dubai, UAE … Paul Dunne gained from a pre-round tip by coach, Justin Parsons and confidently turned around a first day 72 with a second round 69 for a brighter-looking  three-under par tally in the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. Dunne, who admitted he was searching for answers after a first of five birdies but also five bogeys, turned that around with four second round birdies and just the one dropped shot to be just inside the top-30 and eight shots behind Englishman Matt Wallace (65) ...

Dubai, UAE … Russell Knox boosted a goal of grabbing a share of a £7.8m ($US10m) end-of-season bonus to also be well in contention heading to the weekend rounds in n Dubai. The lone Scot in the elite 60-only field split the fairways with monotonous regularity to produce a bogey-free second round 68 for a three-under par tally. It left the 33-year old trailing eight shots behind England’s Matt Wallace who posted a round of 65 to lead by a shot on 11-under and this is after being slapped ...

Dubai, UAE… Rory McIlroy may have raised plenty of eyebrows with a decision not to rejoin the 2019 European Tour but he’s won support from event organisers with a decision also not to contest next year’s Omega Dubai Desert Classic. McIlroy hinted at the recent Tour Championship in Atlanta he would be starting his 2019 season in Hawaii and that probably meant mising out for just a second time in his pro career beginning a New Year in either Dubai or Abu Dhabi. And the current World ...

Dubai, UAE … Rory McIlroy traded spotting lions and elephants last week in South Africa for looking at leaderboards in snatching seven birdies on day two of the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. McIlroy produced his lowest score of a five-under par 67 since last month’s Tour Championship to be trailing just three shots behind England’s Matthew Wallace. Bizarrely, Wallace had been fined Euro 3,400 a day earlier for slow play but made a mockery of his ‘tortoise’ ways in sprinting to ...