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England’s Luke Joy fired a course-record 64 to join Gabriel Canizares atop the leaderboard heading into the final round of the MENA GolfTour’s American Express Dirab Golf Championship on Tuesday. Starting the day, a good four shots behind, Joy rattled off one eagle and seven birdies, including five on the front nine, against a lone bogey to reach nine-under for the tournament along with joint overnight leader Gabriel Canizares of Spain, who carded a second round 70. England’s Craig Hinton, ...

Four-time Major winning Rory McIlroy has saved himself $20,000 with a simple apology on live TV McIlroy hit the headlines in March when he hurled his 3-iron into a lake at Doral during the WGC-Cadillac Championship in suburban Miami. The PGA Tour will never reveal how much players are fined for such incidents, but McIlroy confirmed: “The fine was reduced from $25,000 to $5,000 because I said I was sorry on the TV interview afterwards.” McIlroy’s stats were produced by the team at Santander ...

Craig Hinton and Gabriel Canizares shot matching seven-under 65s on Monday to share the lead after the first round of the American Express Dirab Golf Championship, the sixth stop of the MENA Golf Tour this season. Playing in the day’s very second group, England’s Hinton took full advantage of decent morning conditions at Dirab Golf and Country Club, reeling off one eagle and six birdies against a lone bogey while Canizares of Spain went bogey-free as the duo moved three shots clear of rising ...

Ireland’s rookie professional Paul Dunne was heading straight to the British Masters where he will look to draw upon his winning Woburn ways. Some three months ago Dunne finished the leading Open Championship qualifier posting rounds of 70 and a sizzling 65 to win by three shots and thus earn a place in the 144th Open where he would go onto to share the lead with a round to play. And the 22-year will need a good showing around the Marquis Course in the second of three straight invitations he’s ...

THORBJORN OLESEN – WITH HIS 2015 ALFRED DUNHILL LINKS VICTORY • His third European Tour International Schedule victory in his 130th European Tour event. • Moves to 883,472 points in The Race to Dubai. • Moves to 25th in The Race to Dubai rankings. • Moves into the top 75 in the Official World Golf Ranking. • His first European Tour victory since the 2014 ISPS HANDA Perth International – a gap of 334 days between European Tour victories. • He played 24 European Tour events ...

Ireland’s rookie professional Paul Dunne was heading straight to the British Masters where he will look to draw upon his winning Woburn ways. Some three months ago Dunne finished the leading Open Championship qualifier posting rounds of 70 and a sizzling 65 to win by three shots and thus earn a place in the 144th Open where he would go onto to share the lead with a round to play. And the 22-year will need a good showing around the Marquis Course in the second of three straight invitations he’s ...

History beckons this weekend for either England’s Jimmy Mullen or Ireland’s Paul Dunne. Why? Because in the long history of the European Tour no one has captured a Tour title in their first event as a professional. This information was confirmed by the Tour’s ‘Mr. Stats’ Steve Doughty despite reporting he was in the process of moving house when www.golfbytourmiss.com phoned him late Friday. In fact, there’s been two players – England’s Tom Lewis and ...