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Renowned Scottish caddy Dave Renwick confessed he could have lived with himself had he not pulled Rory McIlroy up on a rules infringement that effectively killed McIlroy’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship victory hopes. For a second time in three years McIlroy’s fallen foul of rules that’s seen the double Major winner have glory snatched from his grasp and again finish runner-up by a shot. Two years ago, Luke Donald picked McIlroy up on a rules infringement during the final round that saw McIlroy ...

The UAE’s Sport 360 daily newspaper was spot on with it’s headline in today’s edition in reporting on Pablo Larrazbal’s stunning success in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship. The four word headline – Pablo Makes Them Pay – aptly described how first Rory McIlroy and then fellow Major Champion Phil Mickelson were left counting the costs of seeing victory slip through their fingers. First there was McIlroy incurring a two-stroke penalty on day three of the ...

Five-time Major winner Phil Mickelson agreed his on-course antics made him ‘Box Office’ material after sharing second place in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship in the UAE capital. Mickelson was left paying a severe price for a bizarre incident on the 13th hole when, in playing a 4-iron right-handed, the current British Open champion had to call a penalty on himself when his second shot from under bushes ricocheted off a branch hit his club. It left the visiting American walking off ...

Spain’s Pablo Larrazabal was pinching himself knowing he had defeated both Phil Mickelson and Rory McIlroy to end a near three-year winless run with victory at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship. The 30-year old Barcelona-born Larrazabal came from three strokes behind heading to the last day to hole a seven-foot birdie at the final hole for a 14-under par tally. An emotional Larrrazabal, who set-up victory with a 253-meter 5-wood second shot into the final green, relegated Phil Mickelson (69) ...

Spain’s Pablo Larrazabal upstaged his more-fancied rivals to shoot a final round final round 67 to end a near three-year winless drought to capture the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Larrazabal won by one shot with a 14-under par total on the National Course in the UAE capital. Rory McIlroy, who had incurred a two-stroke penalty a day earlier, shot a last round 68 to finish with a share of second place at 13-under par and tied with American Phil Mickelson (69). Mickelson was left counting the costs ...

Bizarrely, today’s two shot penalty incurred by double Major winning Rory McIlroy continues a trend in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. McIlroy found himself robbed of a final round last group match-up with Scotland’s Craig Lee and instead the 24-year old was removed from second place at 11-under par and will now start the fourth day tied in fourth place on nine under par and three behind Lee. Some years ago, fellow Irishman Padraig Harrington was disqualified when it came to light in ...

Double Major winning Rory McIlroy had labelled as ‘stupid’ a rule that saw him slapped with a two-shot penalty on day three of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. McIlroy was in a then share of second place on 10-under par after 17 holes, and tied with Phil Mickelson (63) and India’s Gaganjeet Bhullar (66), when he was approached on the 18th hole by Scotland-born Dave Renwick and the caddy to his playing partner to Argentina’s Ricardo Gonzalez, that he should not hand in his scorecard. Renwick, ...