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Hero Dubai Desert Classic champion Tyrrell Hatton revealed he used to skip school to watch the Dubai event on TV, and admits is now amazing to join some of the greats of the game in becoming the Dubai events new champion. Hatton, 33, birdied the last in closing 69 to capture a second DP World Tour victory in five events after winning last October’s Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland. Hatton said: “This win is up there with winning the Dunhill in St. Andrews and the only thing bigger would ...

LIV Golfer captured a second DP World Tour title in his last five Tour events in posting a closing 69 for a one-shot victory in the 2025 Hero Dubai Desert Classic. Hatton captured last October’s Dunhill Links Championship in Scotand and since then has posted a second place finish in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, sixth in the following week’s season-ending DP World Tour Championship and then travelled to Saudi Arabia to be fifth in the Asian Tour season-ending PIF International in Riyadh. The ...

Tommy Fleetwood found himself serenaded by fans singing ‘Happy Birthday’ shortly after he teed-off on the final day of the Hero Dubai Desert Classic. The very popular English golfer turned 33 and with fans warming to the occasion when asked to join in singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to the 10-time pro winning golfer. “It was a nice touch and unexpected, so always nice to have that support from the fans” , he said speaking to GolfByTourMiss  Tommy @TommyFleetwood1 serenaded ...

Masters champion Adam Scott was full of praise for ultra-talented Moroccan-born amateur Adam Bresnau. Scott and Bresnau, along with American lefty Akshay Bhatia went out in the same group on day three of the $9m Hero Dubai Desert Classic signing for respective rounds of 69, 72 and Bhatia a 73 in bright but testing windy conditions on the host Emirates club course. It is only Bresnau’s second time in Dubai and the first being at the end of last year when he captured the Pan Arab Amateur Championship ...

Tyrrell Hatton gave new meaning to golfing term ‘holes out’ when he attacked a tee marker at the seventh hole on day three of the Hero Dubai Desert Classic. The reigning Dunhill Links champion played a poor tee shot at the 191-yard, par-3 hole that landed some 50-foot right of the flag. Hatton then turned and with his first swipe at the tee maker rather tame while the second put a hole in the marker and will surely result in the LIV player being fined. Golfing colleague and Guardian correspondent ...

Scotland’s Ewen Ferguson was far from pleased when he found himself ‘put on the clock’ by a DP World Tour official while still very much in contention late in his round on day three of the Hero Dubai Desert Classic here in Dubai. Ferguson was one-over par for his third round heading down the 16th hole on the host Emirates Golf Club course when he, and playing in the group of Kiwi Dan Hillier and Aussie Jason Scrivener, was approached and advised to speed-up his play by the Tour’s ...

Scotland’s Calum Hill could not have been more pleased not only playing along four-time Hero Dubai Desert Classic winnner Rory McIlroy but finishing ahead of the four-time major-winner of day three of the Rolex Series event. Hill, and competing this week without official PING endorsement since turning pro in 2017, grabbed seven birdies in a ‘moving day’ 67 to end the round at eight-under and sharing sixth place on the host Emirate course. McIlroy, in contrast, continues to get out ...