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Paul Dunne is hoping history can repeat itself with the rookie pro looking to follow in the same footsteps of Rory McIlroy and secure his European Tour card at this week’s Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. Eight years ago a then 18–year old McIlroy stood at the back of 18th green on the Old Course watching Scotland’s Paul Lawrie putt for birdie on the final day of the Dunhill-sponsored event. “If Lawrie misses this putt that’s my Tour card,” said McIlroy at the time. Lawrie missed the putt and McIlroy’s third place finish, and also in a  second tournament as a pro, ...

Per Barth profited from a scintillating birdie charge on the back nine to win the MENA Golf Tour’s Shaikh Maktoum Dubai Open by two shots at Al Badia Golf Club on Wednesday. Tied for the lead overnight with Scotland’s Paul Doherty and Gary King of England, the 29-year-old Swede picked up five shots coming down the stretch after making the turn at level-par, en route to a closing 67 to reach 13-under, which was good enough to script his first victory on the tour. Doherty, who opened with ...

Graeme McDowell has welcomed fellow Irishman Darren Clarke’s decision to captain the European Team in next March’s EurAsia Cup in Malaysia. McDowell was a member of the team that drew two years ago in the inaugural event in Kuala Lumpur, and while it will provide Clarke with valued captaincy experience ahead of the Ryder Cup later in 2016, McDowell insists it is a good breeding ground for not only for potential European Ryder Cup captains but also players. And ...

DUBAI, Sept 29 — Gary King and Per Barth shot back-to-back four-under 68s to close the gap on overnight leader Paul Doherty of Scotland going into the final round of the MENA Golf Tour’s Shaikh Maktoum Dubai Open at Al Badia Golf. England’s King, the winner of last week’s event in Abu Dhabi, mixed four birdies and an eagle (on the 18th) with two bogeys while Barth of Sweden lit up the back nine with five birdies after making the turn at one over to join Doherty, who settled for a level ...

If European Tour CEO Keith Pelley needed to quickly find his feet in a new role he did in delicate dealings with double European No. 1 Rory McIlroy and his management team. The 51-year old Canadian-born Pelley took over the reins of the European Tour in April from Irish-born George O’Grady. Earlier in his career Pelley was CEO of the Canadian Football League’s ‘Toronto Argonauts’, and with the team winning the championship title in his first year at the helm. In early 2014, Pelley and in his role as President of Rogers Media, negotiated a $5.32b deal with ...

European Ryder Cup captain Darren Clarke will gain pre-Hazeltine leadership experience when named Monday morning UK time by the European Tour as a rival captain in the 2016 EurAsia Cup. The second staging of the now biennial Eurasia Cup will take place in March next year and again in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Clarke’s Asian rival will be good friend and fellow ISM client Jeev Milkha Singh, a four-time European Tour winner. The EurAsia Cup has now replaced the Seve ...

THONGCHAI JAIDEE – WITH HIS 2015 PORSCHE EUROPEAN OPEN SUCCESS • His seventh European Tour International Schedule victory in his 310th European Tour event. • Moves to 1,477,477 points in The Race to Dubai. • Could move to just outside the top 30 of the Official World Golf Ranking, from 44th. • His first European Tour victory since the 2014 Nordea Masters. • This victory beats his previous best 2015 European Tour performances of tied second in the True Thailand Classic presented ...