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Race to Dubai rival Sergio Garcia has waved a virtual white flag declaring Rory McIlroy’s brilliant season is deserving of a second Race to Dubai victory crown in three years. In the absence of McIlroy this week in Turkey, Garcia can still unseat the four-time Major winner by capturing the Turkish Airlines Open but the Spaniard, who is currently ranked third on the money list, would also need to succeed in next week’s season-ending DP World Tour Championship. It is the same scenario for the second ...

The move by Colin Montgomerie to the Champions Tour is certainly a gain for the over-50 year golfing brigade. But it is also a big loss to the golf writers working the European Tour. That was no more prevalent when Monty visited the Media Center on the eve of this week’s Turkish Airlines Open. Not only is it again a special week for Monty as the event is being played on the Maxx Royal course he designed but also it is the occasion of his 600th European Tour event. Only one player, who is still ...

While Sergio Garcia can mathematically still end the year as European Number One he believes Rory McIlroy’s superb season is deserving of the Race to Dubai victory crown. It is a view also shared also by former double European Tour Number One Lee Westwood who stated also the European Tour should not react to McIlroy’s brilliance and copy the PGA Tour by altering the Race to Dubai points scoring system. For a third week in succession McIlroy is not contesting the Tour’s Final Four Series ...

Turkey has withdrawn its bid to host the 2022 Ryder Cup citing sensitive environmental issues as it would require cutting down between some 6,000 and 15,000 trees. Turkey was among seven European Continental nations vying to host the biennial event and nominating the Montgomerie Maxx Royal course and venue for this week’s Turkish Airlines Open. However Turkey has elected not to bid and will look to focus on building a new golf course, and without any environmental concerns, in a move that could ...

There was the sight of a stunning Mediterranean sunset over the Maxx Royal Hotel here in Belek, Turkey.

Three stars of this week’s Turkish Airlines Open took to the stage of the near 2,000 Theatre of Aspendos, and located around a 20-minute drive from this week’s host Montgomerie Maxx Royal course. The stars – Henrik Stenson, Lee Westwood and Sergio Garcia – then hit golf balls over the back wall of remarkable ancient Roman ruin. The shots, off a raised artificial mat, needed to carry around 80-yard high wall that was no trouble for the trio of European Ryder Cup stars. However ...

We meant to post this story a few days ago but there’s added security measures at Augusta National and venue each year for the Masters. To help protect any incident of someone driving past the front gates and down Magnolia Lane a series of remote controlled bollards have been installed at the Washington Road end of Magnolia Lane.   The five posts can be retracted by security guards and are the latest step in the club enhancing its perimeter protection in recent years.   In October, ...