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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 ...

Dubai, UAE …. Matt Wallace proved he was no tortoise in sprinting to the front of the field with a blistering seven birdie haul in a round of 65 on day two of the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. The Englishman had been fined £3,000 on day one of the European Tour season-ending event for slow-play mid-round but no such problems on day two in muscling his way to 11-under par on Wallace’s debut in the event. Wallace is seeking his fourth win of a remarkable season as he recorded a ...

Dubai, UAE …. Rory McIlroy was all smiles after posting a five-under par 67 while playing alongside USA Ryder Cup rival Patrick Reed on day two of the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. MORE TO FOLLOW

Dubai, UAE …. It was advantage Francesco Molinari, and albeit by just one shot, on the opening day of the season-ending DP World Tour Championship and the year’s final Rolex Series event in Dubai. Molinari did bogey two of his four closing holes in a four-under par 68 and one fewer than Race to Dubai rival Tommy Fleetwood. The duo of Spaniard Adrian Otaegui and Englishman Jordan Smith share the first round lead at Jumeirah Golf Estates after carding a pair of six under par rounds of 66. Fleetwood, ...

Dubai, UAE …. It will have been some four months when Open Champion, Francesco Molinari finally gets to return home to Italy with the Claret Jug. The London-based Italian simply has not had time amid a heavy 2018 schedule, along with becoming the first player in the history of European Team Ryder Cup competition to win all five of his matches, to take his young family home to visit his parents. And what a triumphant journey home it promises to be for the 36-year old. Not only will Molinari ...