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MATTHEW FITZPATRICK – WITH HIS DP WORLD TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP TRIUMPH • His third European Tour International Schedule victory in his 65th official European Tour event. • Moves to 2,395,787 points in the Race to Dubai. • Could move to inside the top 30 of the Official World Golf Ranking, from 51st. • His second European Tour victory of the 2016 season following the Nordea Masters. • The sixth multiple winner of the 2016 season. They are: Alex Noren (Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish ...

Sweden’s Henrik won a second Race to Dubai and end 2017 as European No. 1 to rightfully declaring the season to be best of his career. The Open champion closed his 16th European Tour season with a seven under par 65 in the DP World Tour Championship, bringing the curtain down on a year in which he became the first Swede to win a major with his triumph at Royal Troon in July and also claimed an Olympic silver medal. Along with victory at Royal Troon, Stenson won the BMW International Open in ...

Matthew Fitzpatrick buried any lingering Hazeltine demons in capturing the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. Fitzpatrick, 22 collected just the third event of his pro career in what proved to be a two-shot turnaround in his favour at the last, when he hole a four-foot birdie while fellow Englishman Tyrrell Hatton, who had been leading by a shot heading to the 18th tee, proceeded to bogey the hole. Fitzpatrick posted a final round 67 for a 17-under par victory tally and one few than ...

Ireland’s Shane Lowry revealed his wife, Wendy is due to give birth to the couple’s first child at the end of February. And Lowry’s hoping that in becoming father he can duplicate Englishman Danny Willett and then go onto to win the Masters in early April. Willett’s wife, Nicole gave birth to a son with just days to spare ahead of the Masters and then with Willett drawing on the inspiration in becoming a father to win the season’s first Major at Augusta National. Now ...

Jordan Spieth ruled at Royal Sydney capturing a second Australian Open in three years. After declaring he was ‘brainless’ on the greens following his second round, four times Spieth rolled in four putts in to win the famed Stonehaven Trophy in aplayoff over Queenslander Cameron Smith and Victoria’s Ash Hall. The visiting American was almost out of the running at the mid-point of his final round today, suffering for an horrendous richochet off the flagstick at the seventh, and taking ...

Open Champion Henrik Stenson virtually only has to fall over the line to win a second Race to Dubai title in four years. The Swede heads into the final day of the season-ending DP World Tour Championship sharing 22nd place after a third round 70 for a five-under par tally on the Jumierah Golf Estates course. Stenson trails eight shots behind Frenchman Victor Dubuisson who holed his second shot for an eagle ‘2’ at the fifth and also birdied four of his closing five holes is a sizzling eight under ...

Three former Australian Open winners are separated by two shots heading to the final round at Royal Sydney. Geoff Ogilvy, winner of the 2010 Australian Open, posted a sensational third-round eight-under-par 64 to move two shots clear of the field at 11-under par. But hot on his heels is Aaron Baddeley, winner as an amateur at Royal Sydney in 1999 and a year later as a professional, and shooting a 67. And tied with Baddeley is 2014 Stonehave Trophy winner Jordan Spieth who posed a 68 and joined in ...