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Justin Rose and Shane Lowry clearly know what they need to do when it comes to walking away with the Race to Dubai title with a win sorting out all the likely DP World Tour Championship scenarios. Rose heads into the tournament third in the standings, 650,999 points behind leader Rory McIlroy, with Lowry a further 51,480 points back in fourth, but with 1,333,330 points on offer this week, a win for either player would give them a good chance of finishing the season at the top of the pile. World Number ...

  KRISS BROBERG – WITH HIS 2015 BMW MASTERS SUCCESS • It is the Callaway attached golfer’s first European Tour International Schedule victory in his 96th European Tour event. • Moves to 1,899,321 points in The Race to Dubai. • Could move to just outside the top 60 in the Official World Golf Ranking, from 149th. • This victory beats his previous best European Tour performances of second in the 2013 Alfred Dunhill Championship, 2014 Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open and ...

Kris Broberg had earned his European Tour card in brilliant manner by winning four times in  2012 on the secondary Challenge Tour. Now the Callaway attached born Swede is a European Tour champion claiming a long overdue first main Tour title at the BMW Masters with a dramatic and eventual tearful play-off victory by holing a long birdie putt over American and fellow Callaway player Patrick Reed. Broberg came into the final round two shots off the lead but turned in 33 to hold a share of top spot ...

Double Major winning Martin Kaymer has set himself the goal of winning at least one tournament in his remaining two Race to Dubai events this season starting at this week’s BMW Masters at Lake Malaren in Shanghai. After an impressive 2014 season yielded two of golf’s biggest titles – the US Open Championship and the Players Championship on the US PGA Tour – the German has so far not managed to add to his trophy collection in 2015. “Overall, the season so far, I wouldn’t rate great ...

England amateur James Allan stormed his way towards potential MENA Tour history with a second-round 66  on day two of the MENA Golf Tour Championship. Allan is bidding to become the first amateur to win a MENA Golf Tour event and mixed four birdies and an eagle with a lone bogey to reach nine under for the tournament. He trails four shots behind his compatriot Scott Campbell, who shot the day’s best score, a seven-under 64, to top the leaderboard. Craig Hinton fired back-to-back 65s to sit ...

Rory McIlroy’s new romance seems to be getting along extremely well if the appearance of new girlfriend Erica Stroll out in China last week is any indication. So much so The Irish Herald has today run the following heart-warming story written jointly by  Melanie Finn and Caitlin McBride that clearly would not be out of place in any of the world’s leading ‘women’s’ magazines. The PGA employee (29) has been pictured for the first time cheering on McIlroy (26), at the ...

Victory for Scotland’s Russell Knox in last week’s WGC – HSBC Champions event in China will not count in the Scot seeking to qualify for the 2016 European Ryder Cup team. Knox has until the final day of the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai next week to join the Tour for next season by submitting an application form and paying the £500 fee, but he cannot retroactively claim the points from Shanghai. “It’s going to be a goal of mine to make the European Ryder Cup team and ...