Darren Clarke Heralds Exciting New MENA Tour Initiative.
Darren Clarke has again been involved in an historic MENA Golf Tour chapter with news of the launch of the inaugural Qualifying School, offering a simplified roadmap for earning playing status on the tour in 2016.
Open to all professionals and amateurs — with a handicap of one or better — the 54-hole Q-School will be held at Almenara Golf Club in the Spanish resort Sotogrande in the Cadiz province, in two stages in February next year.
The first stage, on February 14-16, will see players compete ...
Rory McIlroy’s Manager Sean O’Flaherty Pops The Question & Michelle O’Toole Says ‘Yes’.
Congratulations are in order for Sean O’Flaherty and the long-time manager to four-time Major winning Rory McIlroy.
The very affable O’Flaherty, who looks after much of the business affairs of McIlroy, got engaged on October 8th to Dublin-born beauty, Michelle O’Toole.
The Irish Independent reported news of the engagement earlier today.
According to the newspaper the future Mr. and Mrs. O’Flaherty are matched in many ways – she attended Alexander College in Milltown ...
Shane Lowry Seeking To Share WGC History With Tiger Woods In Shanghai.
Shane Lowry will be chasing when he tees up in the WGC-HSBC Champions, where the Irishman is bidding to become only the second player in history to win back-to-back World Golf Championships.If he could add the WGC-HSBC Champions to the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational title he won in such memorable fashion, Lowry would join Tiger Woods in a very exclusive club of players to achieve the feat.
Woods has claimed successive WGC titles on seven occasions – albeit not always in the same season – but ...
Darren Clarke Creates MENA Tour History.
Darren Clarke created history when he became the first reigning Ryder Cup Captain to tee-up in a MENA Tour event.
Clarke had flown straight from Turkey where had been competing in the Turkish Airlines Open to the UAE ahead of posting a respectable one under par 71 on the first day of the Ras Al Khaimah Classic in the UAE to be trailing five shot behind the leading duo of Faycal Serghini and Per Barth.
Clarke was supposed to be joined by fellow ISM client Matt Fitzpatrick but after winning the British ...
Rory McIlroy Heads To Shanghai ‘Disappointed’ But Further In Front Of Danny Willett.
Rory McIlroy heads to Shanghai and the second of the Race to Dubai Final Four series events ‘disappointed’ with his showing on the final day of the Turkish Airlines Open in Belek.
McIlroy went into the last found inside the flight cockpit and just one shot from lead but ended his first appearance in the tournament back in economy class posting a score of 71 and a 16-under par tally.
It left him trailing six shots behind Frenchman Victor Dubuisson who claimed a second Turkish Airlines ...
Tearful Victor Dubuisson Wins Second Turkish Airlines Open In Three Years .. Flies To Top Of 2016 Ryder Cup Table.
A tearful Victor Dubuisson is flying first class for a second occasion in three years in capturing the Turkish Airlines Open at Belek.
Dubuisson set-up his win when he birdied three of his closing four holes in a round of 66 and win by a shot with a shot with a 22 under total and deny South African Jaco Van Zyl by one shot.
Dubuisson had just two top-10s arriving in Turkey and admitted the tearful scenes was due to a crisis of confidence for much of the season.
“It’s so hard because ...
Justin Thomas Masters Bound After Maiden Tour Win At CIMB Classic.
American Justin Thomas is Masters bound next April after overcoming a 14th hole double bogey to win the CIMB Classic for his first PGA Tour title.
The 22-year-old American holed a 6-foot par putt on the par-5 18th in a round of 66 for a tournament record of 26-under par on the Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club.
Thomas, who had a course-record 61 in the second round, seemed to have blown his chances when he hit into the water at 14, but he immediately rallied with three consecutive birdies ...
