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Past victorious Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley believes it’s important the LIV duo of Spaniard Jon Rahm and England’s Tyrrell Hatton remain in place on the 2025 European Ryder Cup automatic selection bus. It was formally announced earlier this year by LIV that the double-major winning Rahm and the then 11-time pro winning Hatton had signed to join the breakaway golf league. Both players were members of Luke Donald’s victorious 2023 European Team in Rome and with Hatton presently ...

It is near enough to 10 months since Adrian Meronk last competed in a regular DP World Tour (DPWT) event when the Polish golfer tees-up in next week’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Meronk last competed on the DPWT about an hour’s drive north of Abu Dhabi when the now 31-year-old finished a gallant runner-up to Rory McIlroy at Hero Dubai Desert Classic. After a stiring 2023 season the giant, blond-haired Meronk had kick-started 2024 still creating a name for himself. The Pole had been ...

When is the last time, and if there ever was a first occasion, when your game of golf was warmly interrupted when the son of the owner of the golf course you were in the process of tackling had the full Irish breakfast laid out for you on the bonnet of his car parked at the back of one of the golf holes? It happened one day when legendary golf journalist Dai Davies and myself were playing the famed European Club in Ireland. Dai, who wrote The Guardian newpaper and sadly passed away in 2008, and ...

Scotland’s Graeme Robertson is one of 13 Scots in a field over just over 300 players teeing-up later this week in Spain at the second stage of qualifing as players seek to earn full 2025 DP World Tour membership. The top-75 players after four rounds will then remain in Spain for the following week’s – November 8th to 13th – six round final stage of qualifying and, if among the leading 25 after what will be 10 rounds of competition in 14 days, will earn their 2025 DPWT card. Last ...

Ollie Fisher and still the DP World Tour’s only ‘Mr. 59’ will be hoping to make it a third time lucky when he joins just over 300 players teeing-up on four Spanish courses starting Thursday in the second stage of 2025 Tour membership qualifying. Fisher, who recently turned 36, is contesting second stage at one of four host Spanish courses and with the leading 78 players over the four days to then advance a week later the six-round Final Qualifying stage also in Spain where the leading ...

Some 53 million people live in Columbia and one of a dozen countries in South America. Columbia is fourth largest in size behind Brazil, Argentina and Peru However, there is just around 50 golf courses in Columbia while it is believed only 35,000 people have an official golf handicap. Undoubtedly, Columbia’s best golfer is Camillo Villegas, a five-time PGA Tour winner and with seven other victories in his pro career while he’s contested some 28 major championships including best of a ...

The Top-70 on the DPWT Race to Dubai – Two Events Now Remain & Who’s Going To Stop Rors Winning A Sixth Rory McIlroy has won the prestigious DP World Tour ‘Race to Dubai’ title on five occasions – 2012, 2014, 2019, 2022 and 2023 – and who is going to stop him capturing a record-setting sixth?    Position/Name/Number of DPWT Events Played 1 MCILROY, Rory 10 2 – LAWRENCE, Thriston 24 3 – HØJGAARD, Rasmus 21 4 – HORSCHEL, Billy 7 5 – FLEETWOOD, Tommy 10 6 – MANASSERO, Matteo 28 7 – NORGAARD, Niklas 26 8 – SVENSSON, Jesper 26 9 – MACINTYRE, Robert 9 10 – HOSHINO, Rikuya 24 11 – SCOTT, Adam 9 12 – SÖDERBERG, Sebastian 20 13 – SMITH, Jordan 25 14 MIGLIOZZI, Guido 25 15 LANGASQUE, Romain 28 16 ÅBERG, Ludvig 5 17 MCKIBBIN, Tom 25 18 OLESEN, Thorbjørn 14 19 GUERRIER, Julien 22 20 WALLACE, Matt 11 21 HIDALGO, Angel 29 22 HATTON, Tyrrell 8 23 BRADBURY, Dan 27 24 LACROIX, Frederic 22 25 CAMPILLO, Jorge 17 26 CANTER, Laurie 17 27 ROSE, Justin 7 28 LOWRY, Shane 9 29 DEAN, Joe 17 30 ELVIRA, Nacho 23 31 ROZNER, Antoine 24 32 FERGUSON, Ewen 25 33 NIEMANN, Joaquin 6 34 RAHM, Jon 6 35 OTAEGUI, Adrian 29 36 BROWN, Daniel 26 37 BAIRSTOW, Sam 29 38 VAN ...