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…. Muscat, Oman England’s Steve Lewton can be proud of his efforts in finishing fourth despite the hurt of a mid-round nightmare over the final round of the International Series Oman. Lewton, 39, posted a closing round 71 in the continuing blustery conditions that eventually saw just 12 players break par over the four days from an original starting line-up of 132 taking to the stunning Al Mouj course in Muscat. The six-time tour winning Lewton had missed the cut a week earlier at the ...

…. Muscat, Oman Japan’s Takumi Kanaya has brilliantly stormed his way to success in the inaugural International Series Oman at the Al Mouq course in Muscat. Kanaya, 24, won a fourth pro career title and a first outside his native Japan with scores of 69, 71, 67 and a closing 71 in continuing windy conditions to win by four shots on the course laid out along the Gulf of Oman shoreline. Kanaya burst onto the world stage as an amateur, and emerging from the smoke and haze from serious bushfire ...

The Scottish duo of Scott Jamieson and Grant Forrest will need to do a “Monty” if they are to capture the inaugural Singapore Classic. The Tartan duo share 11th place at 10-under but just four adrift of the leading duo of South Korean Jeunghun Wang and Spaniard Alejandro Del Ray tied at 14-under. Nineteen years ago, Monty came from five shots back heading to the last day to win by three on this week’s same Laguna National course on the small island nation. The 27-year-old Wang had been four ...

…  Muscat, Oman  Sergio Garcia mirrored the delight of the golf world with news Tiger Woods will return to formal competition at this week’s Tiger Woods Foundation hosting of the Genesis Invitational in Santa Monica. Woods has not played ‘individual’ competition since the emotional scenes last July in missing the halfway cut at the 150th Open Championship at St. Andrews. The 15-time major winner was due tee-up earlier in December in the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas but withdrew ...

… Muscat, Oman Four-time major winner Brooks Koepka has missed the high six-over par cut by two shots with scores of 74 & 78 in the inaugural Asian Tour’s Oman event on day two of the $US 2m event in Muscat. The extremely windy conditions, and up to very late in the afternoon, saw no player break 70 on day two while just eight of 126 players managed to better par of 72 on the exposed Al Mouj course laid out along the Gulf of Oman. Japan’s Takumi Kanaya, and a former world amateur ...

… Muscat, Oman Graeme McDowell could be mistaken he was not back home in wintery Portrush battling the windy conditions coming in off a whipped-up Gulf of Oman to superbly make the cut at the inaugural Asian Tour International Series event in Oman. There was a real spring in McDowell’s step coming up the last in posting a level par 72 for a one-over tally, to be lying inside the top-20 heading to the weekend rounds in the $US 2m event on the host Al Mouj course in Muscat. After two bogeys ...

…. Muscat, Oman Today Friday 10th of February 2023 is the final day of a five-day arbitration panel hearing in London that will decide whether the European Tour was right to suspend LIV golfers from competing on the Tour. A three-man panel headed by retired High Court Judge, His Honour Judge Phillip Sycamore, CBE and two Kings Council (KC) members have been hearing both sides to the argument within the walls of the Sport Resolution Centre in London. At the outset 16 LIV Golf players signed ...