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Aaron Rai can now turn next fortnight’s overdue honeymoon into a 1.3m Euro celebration. That’s how much Rai collected after his stunning play-off victory at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship in the UAE capital. For a second time in their careers Rai and fellow Englishman Tommy Fleetwood found themselves in a play-off for a major DP World Tour title and for a second occasion Rai defeated Fleetwood for the first prize purse, five years after denying Fleetwood for another major bank sponsored ...

 Connor Syme could breath a wee sigh of relief after securing the penultimate last place into this coming week’s top-50 Race to Dubai (R2D) season final in Dubai. The reigning KLM Open champion looked like he could be flying home after a horror opening two hole start to the final round of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Syme was three-over after two holes and managed to regroup thanks to four birdies over his next 10 holes.  There was more anxiety for the Fifer when he dropped a shot at ...

After admitting he was ‘going to have the living daylights scared of me’ in travelling at near 200 mph at the famed Yas Marina race circuit, Rory McIlroy crossed the road to the Yas Links course where in a slower sport he set a new DP World Tour career course record low. McIlroy again went close to a DP World Tour chequered flag when on the final day of the tournament he sensationally set a new DP World Tour career low in his 263rd event thanks to a 10-under-par 62 to eventually share ...

Aaron Rai not only brilliantly denied fellow Englishman Tommy Fleetwood a repeat DP World Tour victory but also superbly held off Grand Slam winning Rory McIlroy a first tournament win in the UAE capital with a birdie at the first extra hole to claim success in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Rai and Fleetwood ended regulation play having pared the par-5 18th with Rai posting a closing 67 and Fleetwood a 66 to send the event into a play-off on the host Yas Links course. The 30-year-old Rai, and ...

Grand Slam winning Rory McIlroy superbly took to the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship overtaking lane in a move to be now assured the keys later next week to a seventh Race to Dubai title. After two days in the slow lanes of the Yas Links course, there was no holding McIlroy back on day three grabbing seven birdies, including four in his opening seven holes on route to an eventual six-under par 66 and now be heading to the final round at 14-under and a share of 12th place. England’s Aaron Rai continues ...

Despite declaring it was a ‘mental, mental’ day Scotland’s Connor Syme was all smiles and delighted to be in sizzling form thanks to an 11 birdie haul on day three of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Syme burst into the then clubhouse lead thanks to his round of 63 for a 14-under tally moments before being joined by Tyrrell Hatton who posted a 64 for his similar three-round tally in the UAE capital. The Scot eventually ended ‘Moving Day’ sharing 12th place and with England’s ...

In a jam-packed leaderboard there is 23 players within six shots of the lead heading to the final two rounds of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship at Yas Links. The England duo of Aaron Rai and Tommy Fleetwood lead the way on 14-under with Rai, and again wearing a black glove on each hand, brilliantly igniting his round of 64 holing his 214-yard second shot shot for an alratross ‘2’ at the par-5 second hole and then adding five birdies in a mistake-free display. “I think we had about ...