Golf, by TourMiss

……  Emirates Club, Dubai After three straight very early alarm calls Scot Calum Hill earned himself a sleep-in after posting a sizzling second round 67 and be assured a first pay cheque of the new DP World Tour season. The Gleneagles attached Hill capped his round with a hat-trick of birdies from the 10th hole but the pick of the five said Hill was his birdie at the par-4 sixth hole. “It’s always great to birdie any hole but I was really pleased with the birdie on six”, he said. “I ...

…. Emirates Club, Dubai For a golfer such as Ewen Ferguson growing up and living in Scotland you are used to rain. So in journeying to Dubai and this week’s Hero Dubai Desert Classic you would not expect to be staring at stoppages due to rain, and not just one downpour but many more to further saturate an already soft host Emirates Club course. In fact, 61 millimetres had fallen on the first 18-hole grassed course to be built in Dubai from late Wednesday through to Friday morning. Up ...

… Emirates Club, Dubai  Patrick Reed could not have asked for a better start nor a better finish in making his debut at the Hero Dubai Desert Classic in Dubai. Reed ended his round sharing the lead with rival Rory McIlroy and matching the remarkable effort of the World No. 1. who finished birdie, eagle and birdie, with the American holing a 15-foot putt for an eagle ‘3’ here on the 18th hole in the rain-interrupted Rolex Series event. It handed the pair rounds of six-under 66s ...

…. Emirates Club, Dubai World No. 1 Rory McIlroy was at his brilliant best needing just seven shots to muscle his way into an eventual share of the lead with American Patrick Reed in the rain-interrupted Hero Dubai Desert Classic lead. Players returned to the Emirates host course early on Friday for what was to be an 8am restart to play but after more rain that was delayed to 10am, and this after the Rolex Series event was initially delayed on Thursday by over six hours due to heavy rain that ...

….. Emirates Club, Dubai. Patrick Reed is boasting he won a ‘small victory’ after he and Rory McIlroy were back talking to each other less than 24 hours after we learnt the full details of ‘Tee Gate’. Reed was seen in video footage early this week gently tossing a golf tee in McIlroy’s direction after the visiting Texan sought to wish the World No. 1 a ‘Happy New Year’ but was snubbed by McIlroy. What since transpired has been worldwide reporting that Reed had launched golf’s ...

.…. Emirates Club, Dubai Patrick Reed is boasting he won a ‘small victory’ after he and Rory McIlroy were back talking again less than 24 hours after we learnt the full details of ‘Tee Gate’. Reed was seen in video footage early this week gently tossing a golf tee in McIlroy’s direction after the visiting Texan sought to wish the World No. 1 a ‘Happy New Year’ but was snubbed by McIlroy. What since transpired has been worldwide reporting that Reed had launched golf’s equivalent ...

.… Emirates Club, Dubai  For a second, I thought it was Swede Sebastian Soderberg but as he walked closer to me as I stood ‘loitering with intent’ on the Emirates Golf Club range I recognised it was John Murphy. No offence to John but at this early stage of any new season, I am no alone in struggling with faces and names. “How are you, Bernie?  Good to see you”, said the affable Irishman. In the second I had to reply to his great welcome, I thought to myself is John into the field ...