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... Yas Links, Abu Dhabi  Padraig Harrington was delighted with a new season start of fourth as Edinburgh-based Frenchman Victor Perez muscled his way to victory despite a near disaster down the last at the  Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Perez picked-up a seventh pro victory and a third DP World Tour title winning by a shot in posting a closing 66 and an 18-under par triumph over the Yas Links course. Perez, who was a member of last week’s winning European Hero Cup side, was leading by two ...

.. Yas Links, Abu Dhabi Edinburgh-based Frenchman Victor Perez singled out in glowing terms living in golf-mad Scotland as helpful in capturing the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Despite a near-disaster incident down the last, Perez picked-up a seventh pro victory and a third DP World Tour title posting a closing 66 to win by a shot at 18-under-par on the Yas Links course. Perez, and a member of last week’s winning European Hero Cup side, burst from the blocks on the final day of the record-setting ...

…  Yas Links, Abu Dhabi Seamus Power ​ was ​jett​ing​​​ home to Las Vegas slightly disappointed by his efforts this past two weeks but clearly pleased with his game in his debut showing in the Middle East. Power produced a closing round 69, capped by eagling the pair-5 seventh hole though sandwiched in between two bogeys, while he delighted in playing his 10 holes on four-under with back-to-back birdies at 11 and 12​, and with the ​effort over the four days secur​ing him ...

… Yas Links, Abu Dhabi  It continues to speak volumes of Padraig Harrington’s character that he’s intending to reach out to Tour rookie Tom McKibbin, in arranging a practice round ahead of this week’s Hero Dubai Desert Classic. It won’t be your normal practice round as Harrington is arranging what he said will be a ‘Battle with the Nordy’s” with Shane Lowry and himself to team in taking on World No. 1 Rory McIlroy and McKibbin. If was after Harrington’s superb second round ...

Scotland’s David Drysdale has brilliantly secured his 2023 Asian Tour card, holing a four-foot birdie putt at the 90th hole on day five and the final round of the Asian Tour Q-School. Drysdale entered qualifying after the disappointment of losing his DP World Tour card at the end of the 2022 season, and while he would have been afforded a limited number of starts this year, he and caddying wife, Vicky discussed the matter and decided to give the Asian Tour a shot. And after rounds 69, 69, ...

… Yas Links, Abu Dhabi  Shane Lowry will bid to win the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship for a second time in four years after muscling his way to the share of the lead heading to the final round of the rich Rolex Series event Yas Links Abu Dhabi. The Irishman posted a six under par round of 66, which included a stunning hole-out eagle ‘2’ at the par four sixth to end his round at 13-under to be sharing the lead with overnight co-leader Francesco Molinari and Australian Min Woo Lee, ...

… Yas Links, Abu Dhabi Newly-engaged Scott Grant Forrest is hoping to bank a whopping £stg 1.3m early wedding prize purse if the Scot can pull off victory in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Forrest, 29, posted a superb ‘moving day’ 65 capped by a seventh hole eagle for a second day running, along with seven birdies, five over his inward half, to be just one shot off the lead at 12-under in the record-setting $US9m event on the Yas Links course. Three players – the back-to-back Open ...