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Top Scot Robert MacIntyre heads into his final DP World Tour (DPWT) event of the season singing the praise of ​his ‘career changing’ year. The lofty World No. 16 tees-up in the DP World Tour Championship joining American Billy Horschell as the only player this week to have won twice on this year’s PGA Tour​ and along with Rory McIlroy and Horschel, MacIntyre’s won both on the PGA and DPWR Tours in 2024. MacIntyre headed into his rookie PGA Tour season struggling with his game and ...

Billy Horschel has become one of the more popular Americans in recent years to compete on the DP World Tour (DPWT) Indeed the soon-to-be 38-year-old’s first ‘regular’ DPWT event was a fourth place finish at the 2019 BMW PGA Championship. Horschel returned two years later to capture the Tour’s flagship event and also adding two earlier events, both in Scotland – the Scottish Open and the Dunhill Links to his schedule. While a year later in 2022 he added a fourth and teeing-up ...

The return of the Austrian and Turkish Opens, as well a tournament in Louisville, Kentucky, will be all part of the 2025 DP World Tour global schedule which is announced today. ·        Features a minimum of 42 tournaments in a minimum of 26 different countries. ·        Austrian and Turkish Opens return, as does the Nedbank Golf Challenge. ·        ‘Global Swings’, the ‘Back 9’ and the ‘DP World Tour Play-Offs’ form three phases. Featuring a minimum of 42 Race ...

Who is Thirston Lawrence and the only player who can deny Rory McIlroy a sixth Race to Dubai title at this week’s season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai? Lawrence trails McIlroy by 1,786 points and with 2,000 points awarded to the winner of this week’s tournament is the only player who can mathematically become 2024 DP World Tour No. 1 and be handed the Harry Vardon Trophy. However, if Lawrence is to become a first South African born to win the coveted title in 20-years then ...

Not for a moment in looking back over the past 30-years when I lost my then full-time job working for a politician following the governments defeat in an Australian State election and then bizarrely two days later winning a golf tournament promotion, would I have thought in becoming a full-time golf journalist it would lead to me now having played golf in 47 different countries (As of 1st November, 2024). My first round of golf in growing up in northern Sydney suburb of Willoughby was at the nine-hole ...

Scotland’s David Law is on target to regain his 2025 DP World Tour card thanks to birdieing his closing three holes in a score of 64 on day four of Final Qualifying at Tarragona in Spain. Law, 33 jumped an impressive eight places to end day four sharing fourth place at 16-under-par and with the leading 20 players after six rounds to be afforded a full DPWT Tour card for next season. The Aberdonian had posted earlier rounds of 67, 68 and 71 before grabbing eight birdies and just the one bogey ...

There is some really great names when it comes to naming golf holes. Famed holes that feature on the Open Championship rota while each April the focus of the golf world is the Masters at Augusta National and golf hole names that most fans of the ancient club-and-ball game are very familiar. Here is a small selection of famed golf holes and some not that well known. * The Road Hole – 17th on the Old Course at St. Andrews (Long been one of the hardest holes in golf) * Calamity Corner – ...