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European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald was leading by example on the opening day of the 40th anniversary Nedbank Challenge at Sun City in South Africa. Donald, 44, entered the event, of course, with a first goal of victory or he would not have crossed the equator to tee-up and, if so, it would be a first DP World Tour winning toast in over a decade since capturing his four-shot 2012 BMW PGA Championship win. No, most golf observers will know that in the bigger picture Donald has returned to ‘South ...

Lost in the news frenzy surrounding Tiger Woods’ return to competition early next month is confirmation Shane Lowry will join the 15-time major champ in the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas. It had been rumoured for a few months Lowry may be extended one of three invitations remaining into the elite 20-player field taking place from December 1st to 4th event again at the Albany Golf Club in the Bahamas. However, tournament officials indicated Lowry will now take the place of the ...

Set your Rolex watch as the elite players on the DP World Tour will contest the prestigious DP World Tour Championship, Dubai at the Jumeirah Golf Estates from 17–20 November, with Rolex returning as the Official Timekeeper for this final event of the 2022 season. Founded in 2009, the championship is the fifth and final Rolex Series event of the year which will determine the winner of the season-long DP World Tour Rankings Presented by Rolex. Jumeirah’s Earth Course, set against Dubai’s shimmering ...

  Lone Scot Robert MacIntyre will be ​looking​ for ​Tartan ​compatriot company when he tees-up early in the New Year in the inaugural Hero Cup in Abu Dhabi. MacIntyre is a certainty to be picked in a Tommy Fleetwood captained GB & I team as Fleetwood’s men go head-to-head with European team captain Francesco Molinari, and the Englishman’s unbeaten ‘Moliwood’ partner from the 2018 ​victorious ​Ryder Cup in Versailles. Fleetwood and Molinari have been confirmed as playing ...

Scottie Scheffler’s odds are now even shorter in his quest to return to World No. 1 at this week’s hosting of the Cadence Bank Houston Open. The US$8.4m event is the eighth on the 2022/23 wraparound PGA Tour schedule and takes place at the Memorial Park course just to the west of the city centre in America’s fourth largest city. Rory McIlroy dethroned Scheffler as World No. 1 in successfully defending last month’s CJ Cup in South Carolina. In the absence of McIlroy last week at the World ...

​​ There is certain to be three Irish in Tommy Fleetwood’s GB & I team for next January’s inaugural Hero Cup in Abu Dhabi. Fleetwood has been named as one captain and with Francesco Molinari to captain a 10-man European Team ​and with the team event ​taking early January on the National course at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club. Of course, it was Fleetwood and Molinari who came together so sensationally​ ​forming their now famed ​unbeaten ​‘Moliwood’ partnership at the 2018 Ryder ...

  There’s no questioning Jarmo Sandelin’s determination in teeing-up later this week in the torturous six-round Q-School final​ qualifing​ in Spain. Sandelin, now aged 55, is among 156 players ​now ​confirmed to tee-up Friday on the Lakes Course at in Tarragona, Spain and then at the close of qualifying on Wednesday 16th November, the leading 25 ​will have earned full 2023 DP World Tour membership. The sometimes madcap but always very affable Swede last played a full DP ...