Golf, by TourMiss

… Dubai, UAE European Tour CEO, Keith Pelley has defended the absence of many of the leading European-born players who chose not to contest the most-recent Turkish Airlines Open and the following week’s Nedbank Challenge. Both events were very-lucrative Rolex Series tournaments with the Turkish Airlines Open boasting a then European Tour record first prize cheque of $2m and for that to be topped the following week at Sun City when Tommy Fleetwood collected a $2.5m first prize payout. The ...

… Dubai, UAE  Top-ranked Scot Bob MacIntyre confessed his disappointed a huge Tartan support contingent in letting slip a five-shot mid-round lead over his ‘Rookie of the Year’ rival with a 74 on day two of the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. The young Scot went well ahead of American and playing partner Kurt Kitayama, and closest challenger for the Sir Henry Cotton trophy, with a birdie at 11 before dropping a shot at 13. MacIntrye, and with at least half of Oban out on the Jumeirah ...

… Dubai, UAE  Frenchman Mike Lorenzo-Vera is already dreaming of a ‘prize’ for himself in taking a three-shot lead into the final two rounds of the DP World Tour Championship here in Dubai. Lorenzo-Vera had set the course alight on day one in posting a blistering nine-under par 63 and added a day two 69 for a 12-under par tally. The 34-year old Bayonne golfer is yet to win on the European Tour and would have ended five shots clear had it not been for bogeys on 15 and then three-putting ...

….. Dubai, UAE  World No. 2 Rory McIlroy epitomised the phrase two days after never the same in golf in posting a horror second round 74 at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. McIlroy, and a day after signing for a ‘could have played the course blindfolded’ 64, struggled to be the only layer inside the top-10 not to break par on the Jumeirah Estates course. His two-over par score sent McIlroy tumbling for second on the board and back into a share of fifth place at six-under par in ...

…. Dubai, UAE  Rory McIlroy singled out former Walker Cup team-mate and fellow Ulster golfer Jonathon Caldwell for special praise in regaining his European Tour card. Caldwell, 35 posted a final round 67 in the six-round Q-School to official finish 19th and be among the leading 25 to earn full 2020 main Tour membership. It has been 12-years since McIlroy and Caldwell were paired in 2007 Walker Cup at Royal Co. Down but with the GB & I team going down by a point to a USA team boasting ...

.… Dubai, UAE World No. 2 Rory McIlroy gave the thumbs-up to stand-in caddy, Niall O’Connor after the pair gelled superbly for McIlroy to post a sizzling eight-under par 64 on day one of the DP World Tour Championship here in Dubai. The former multi-capped Ulster fly-half is filling-in for McIlroy’s final event of 2019 while regular caddy, Harry Diamond is at home with his wife and new baby daughter. McIlroy, and with the proud Castlerock member helping call the shots completed the ...

… Dubai, UAE  Despite getting the ‘silent treatment’ for the most part by his American ‘Rookie of the Year’ rival, Bob MacIntrye remains on target to capture the coveted ‘Rookie of the Year’ despite an average debut round of 71 at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. Scotland’s top-ranked stumbled to be one-over par through 12 holes and a shot behind playing partner Kurt Kitayama before regrouping to finish square with the Las Vegan golfer on one-under par, ...