Golf, by TourMiss

…. Emirates Club, Dubai Past Masters winner Patrick Reed has been cleared on any rules breach or indiscretion after an incident at his penultimate hole on day three of the Hero Dubai Desert Classic. Reed is not the first golfer in the 34-year history of the event to come unstuck in ‘taking on’ the short, dog-leg right par-4 17th hole but finding his golf ball up a palm tree. But that’s what happened with the American walked to the spot and seeing what he thought was his ball. And ...

…. Emirates GC, Dubai  World No. 1 Rory McIlroy will take a three-shot lead into the final round of the Hero Dubai Desert Classic and seek to achieve a feat to have illuded him in 15-years, and that it is to win the first event of a New Year. Despite thinning his second shot into the water guarding the final green, McIlroy will head a first Monday finish in the Rolex Series event leading by three shots at 15-under-par. For 17 holes, McIlroy was at his best birdieing the opening four holes, ...

….. Emirates Golf Club, Dubai I sit here in the front row of the Media Centre overlooking the ninth and 18th greens at the 2023 Hero Dubai Desert Classic and it’s just not the same. The stunning Majlis host course remains a picture postcard setting but it’s outside the front gates that has changed as the  Dubai, and in a gross understatement, is not the same as when I first attended the European Tour event in 1993. Thirty-years ago the Dubai Golf Club was still then well on the ...

…. Emirates GC, Dubai  Patrick Reed may consider turning left-handed after he borrowed Robert MacIntyre’s putter to hole a lengthy putt just minutes after the Texan’s second round at the Hero Dubai Desert Classic in Dubai. Reed struggled with the putter as reflectred in a score of 70, picking-up three birdies in a five-hole stretch from his eighth to 13th holes ahead of a 15th hole bogey in a score of 70 for his eight-under tally on the Emirates course. Then as the Texan made his way ...

.… Emirates GC, Dubai  What the golf world would have loved so much to witness has somewhat disappointingly will not transpire, and by just 10 minutes. The ‘tee gate’ duo of Patrick Reed and Rory McIlroy ended their second rounds of the rain-interrupted Hero Dubai DesertClassic tied at eight-under but with any thoughts of a head-to-head third round encounter here in Dubai out the window with the DP World Tour announcing the draw as:   11:31am BRUN, Julien WALLACE, ...

Had it not been for Rory McIlroy hitting the cup with his birdie attempt on the final green the golf world would not have been kept in wait with DP World Tour news of the draw for the third round of the $US 9m Hero Dubai Desert Classic. McIlroy’s eventual 36th hole closing par, officially judged to be 11 inches, handed him a second round 70 for an eight-under tally on the Emirates Club course. The World No. 1 headed to the scorer’s hut at the back of the 18th tee, and located underneath the new ...

….. Emirates Club, Dubai Ludvig Aberg was born in Sweden and speaks with a very American accent. He stands at some 6 foot 4 inches tall, making him a tall Texas resident and while residing in the city of Lubbock, and the birthplace of rock-and-roll legend Buddy Holly, Aberg is doing his small bit to become one of the city’s famed golfers. Aberg, 23, is contesting this week’s Hero Dubai Desert Classic thanks to a sponsor’s invitation and he’s well-and-truly rewarded sponsors with ...