Golf, by TourMiss

… Jumeirah Estates, Dubai The five Scots teeing-up this week were each tested in sweltering conditions on the opening round of the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. Up front, the England duo of US Open champ, Matthew Fitzpatrick and Tyrrell Hatton, lead the elite 50-player field with seven-under 65s and Fitzpatrick lighting-up the course with five birdies in succession off the bat. However, the birdies dried-up as Fitzpatrick played the closing 11 holes in just two-under. Richie Ramsay ...

… Jumeirah Estates, Dubai​ Matthew Fitzpatrick is now projected to now end the season as European No. 1 after posting a sizzling seven-under 65 in sauna-like conditions​ ​on the opening day of the season-ending DP World Tour Championship here in Dubai. The 28-year-old reigning US Open champion burst from the opening tee to birdie five holes in succession before eventually joining fellow Englishman Tyrrell Hatton at the top, and after Hatton bogeyed the last in his round also at seven-under. Fitpatrick ...

  .….  Jumeirah Estates, Dubai Rory McIlroy was in an up-beat mood joking his manager was piloting one of the Red Arrow flypast jets after a ‘rusty’ opening round 71 at the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. The reigning World No. 1 and also DP Tour No. 1 grabbed five birdies in the sauna-like conditions, including an all-important birdie at the last, to be sharing 22nd place on the Earth Course at Jumeirah Estates. The England duo of US Open champ, Matthew Fitzpatrick ...

….. Jumeirah Estates, Dubai Despite a last hole penalty David Law was pretty chuffed in being greeted by a Red Arrows and Emirates Airline flypast moments after his opening round at the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. Law, 31, superbly bounced back in sauna-like conditions from being one-over after nine holes and pick-up to late round birdies but then bizarrely take a preferred lie up the 18th, to incur a one-stroke penalty in an eventual two-under par 70 on the Earth course ...

The season-ending DP World Tour event has yet to tee-up but it’s been three days of outside the ropes headlines. The present war of words sadly continues in the men’s professional game and with  Rory McIlroy on Tuesday hurling verbal grenade at the LIV Golf CEO, Greg Norman McIlroy presented the only story of day two of official practice declaring Norman ‘needs to step down and exit stage left’ and along with their needs to be ‘an adult in the room’ when the waring parties do ...

The Irish duo of Gary Hurley and John Murphy will be returning home and immediately packing their bags for South Africa next week after superbly securing full 2023 DP World Tour membership following six torturous rounds at the Infinitum resort at Tarragona, Spain. West Waterford’s Hurley finished in 13th place among the leading 25 players who have earned full Tour membership, posting a 19-under-par tally while Kinsale’s Murphy mounted a back nine-hole charge posting a 65 and securing ...

Double Tour winning Ewen Ferguson admits he’s ‘chilled’ at thoughts in making it a season-ending triple winning treat at DP World Tour Championship (DPWTC) final on the Earth course at Jumeirah Estates in Dubai. Ferguson, 26, is among four Tour members to have won twice this year with Scot capturing the CB Qatar Masters and the ISPA Handa World Invitational. Among those double champs this year is Ryan Fox, currently lying No. 2 on the Race to Dubai, and after losing by a shot last week in South ...