Golf, by TourMiss

Scotland’s Connor Syme now has a shot at earning around $1.5m if he captures this coming week’s season-ending and limited field DP World Tour Championship in Dubai and all thanks to Ryder Cup heroes Ludwig Aberg and Jon Rahm. Syme learnt of his good fortune soon after posting a closing 70 to share 65th place in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship but in the bigger Race to Dubai picture dropping to 51st and a place outside this week’s 50 players only $10m Race to Dubai closing event. Though ...

Paul Waring will surely now be heading to the PGA Tour full-time after his stunning Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship triumph. Waring, 39 kept his nerve to bravely brush aside the efforts of some of the game’s best, and including three past Abu Dhabi champions, in birding the closing two holes in a round of 66 for a two stroke and 24-under triumph in suuny and windy conditions on the host Yas Links course. Former double Abu Dhabi champ Tyrrell had tied Waring for the lead with a 13-footer for birdie ...

Scotland’s Grant Forrest ended what could be described as a steady sixth DP World Tour season ahead of looking forward to a biggest excitement in his life. Forrest posted a closing round of 70 for a seven-under-par tally in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. The 31-year-old arrived in the UAE capital lying 58th on the Race to Dubai money list and needing to be among the top-50 if he was to travel the hour or so drive north to Dubai and compete in this coming week’s DP World Tour Championship. Forrest ...

The Scottish trio of Connor Syme, Calum Hill and Grant Forrest are going to need to go low over the final round of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship if they are to also contest next week’s season-ending DP World Tour Championship. The Tartan trio presently are outside of the leading 50 on the Race to Dubai who will gain entry into the $10m Race to Dubai curtain closer taking place an hour up the road in Dubai. Syme is currently the best placed though being projected to drop three places to 52nd ...

Remarkably, England’s Paul Waring has matched a DP World Tour ‘Low 1st 54-hole’ low of 18-under-par despite forfeiting a five-shot overnight to now lead by one heading into the final round of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship at Yas Links. Waring, 39 had second a new course record thanks to his 11-under par 61 on day two of the $9m event and with his 19-under par total also setting a new Tour ‘Low 1st 36 hole’ record in the 72-year history of the Tour. However we all ...

Scot Stephen Gallacher was delighted with his opening round effort ahead of the six-round golfing torture test at the 2025 DP World Tour’s Final Qualifier in Spain. Gallacher posted a two-under-par 69 on the Links course and one of two venues where some 156-players are competing to be among the leading 20 at the close of the six-rounds next Wednesday. The recently turned 50-year-old was the very first out in managing three birdies and a bogey on the par 71 layout at the Infinitum golf resort ...