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On his very first visit to Dubai Ernie Els won a ‘Magic Carpet’. It was his prize when in 1993 he joined the late Seve Ballesteros, Nick Faldo and Japan’s Isao Aoki competing in a 9-hole exhibition match at the opening of the Dubai Creek Golf Club. “I shot a 33 and won a magic carpet but then it wasn’t magic, as it doesn’t fly,” said Els laughing. It was the same year Els made his debut in the Dubai Desert Classic and finishing top-10 behind fellow South ...

Paul McGinley will head to Brazil and the Olympics Game host course next month in a first step to delivering two golfing gold medals to Ireland. McGinley will captain the Ireland men’s and women’s team when the golf’s returns to the Summer Olympics in August later this year. Four-time Major winning Rory McIlroy is assured of spear-heading the Irish men’s team and with his partner for competition from August 11-14 to be either Shane Lowry or Graeme McDowell. World No. 1 ranked amateur Leona ...

You have never seen so many camels, well I haven’t, since we actually stumbled upon the village of Al Shahaniya, where Qatar’s popular camel racetrack is situated. To be honest, we were looking for a unique car museum but then found ourselves gripped by the sight of so many camels. It was about a 45-minute drive out into the desert from Doha and with professional camel racking having begun in Qatar in 1972. Eoin Clarke and I wandered about the camel paddock taking photographs and recording ...

  You have never seen so many camels, well I haven’t, since we actually stumbled upon the village of Al Shahaniya, where Qatar’s popular camel racetrack is situated. To be honest, we were looking for a unique car museum but then found ourselves gripped by the sight of so many camels. It was about a 45-minute drive out into the desert from Doha and with professional camel racking having begun in Qatar in 1972. Eoin Clarke and I wandered about the camel paddock taking photographs and ...

#GolfScience ‘s #Electric Eight at the Farmers’ Insurance Open – Special Report by Kiran Kanwar/ The “chosen ones” or #ElectricEight, were chosen as they were among the top 16 players of the world who participated in the December 2015 Hero World Challenge. How are they faring four weeks into the new season, after they have had time to rest, rebuild and recuperate? The Farmers’ Insurance Open is the fourth event of the season. Six of the #ElectricEight participated, but only ...

Much has changed in Doha in 17 years. Walking the Doha Golf Club course inside-the-ropes on the day after the 2016 Commercial Bank Qatar Masters was nothing like the vista when I first attended the tournament in 1999, and a year after the inaugural event. There was no skyline ‘distractions’ back then and just a stunning desert design layout on the very outskirts of the city of Doha. However in that period natural gas and oil was discovered in Qatar resulting in Doha undergoing a remarkable ...

Still catching up with my travels in this the fourth of four tournaments in succession to commence 2016. I posted pics of our visit last week to Doha’s exciting Souq Waqif and here’s the link to that ‘Life On Tour’ story:- http://www.golfbytourmiss.com/2016/01/dohas-souq-waqif-so-many-wonderful-sights-sounds-smells/ Now for your viewing pleasure is a couple of videos from our night out in the Souq.