Golf, by TourMiss

Scotland’s David Drysdale produced one of his best opening rounds for some time and needed just 27 putts in a round of eight birdies and two bogeys in a round of 66 for a superb share of third place on day one of the RAK Golf Classic at Al Hamra Golf Club. Drysdale ended the opening day of the RAK double-headed tied with eight others on six-under par but only two shots adrift of big-hitting Kiwi Ryan Fox. Fox equalled a DP World career low and also matched the Al Hamra course record set last ...

… Fatiha Betscher, Al Hamra GC, RAK Big-hitting Kiwi golfer Ryan Fox equalled the championship course record with 10 birdies in a nine-under-par 63 on day one of the inaugural Ras Al Khamiah Classic on the stunning Al Hamra course. Fox, 35, took full advantage of the glorious scoring condtions to tie the championship low set by China No. 1 Haotong Li last Sunday in the inaugural Ral Al Khamiah Championship by Phoenix Capital on the same Al Hamra club coure. Better still for Fox as he had been ...

... Al Hamra GC, RAK  Scotland’s Craig Howie has bizarrely spent more time in quarantine in recent months than competing on the DP World Tour. This week’s RAK Classic is only a second full event since earning his main Tour card late later year via the secondary Challenge Tour. The 27-year-old Peebles golfer made his debut at the Joburg Open but like so many, was forced to flee home due to fears over the Omicron stain but then had to spend 10-days in quarantine. Incredibly, Cowie then ...

…… Al Hamra GC, RAK Robert MacIntyre will be hoping he has his ‘best stuff’ for this week’s Ras Al Khaimah Classic, and the second $2m DP World Tour event in succession on the stunning Al Hamra course laid out close to the Arabian Sea, and an hour’s drive north of Dubai. MacIntyre tees up in his fourth event of a new season and with the Oban lefty securing the first paycheque of a fourth season last Sunday with his share of 13th but with no thanks to last Sunday’s ...

Double Masters champ Bubba Watson declared it’s a ‘No Brainer’ not to be contesting this year’s Genesis Scottish Open at the Renaissance Club to the east of Edinburgh. The co-sanctioning of Scotland’s premier men’s tournament for the first time between the DP World Tour and the PGA Tour is already set to attract the biggest world-class field in this year’s 40th anniversary of the event. It will be a maiden Scottish Open appearance for the now 43-year-old Watson, ahead of a third ...

… Fatiha Betscher, Al Hamra GC, RAD  What an amazing roller-coaster final round by the inaugural Ras Al Khaimah champion – Denmark’s Nicolai Hojgaard. The 20-year-old went into the final round leading by three, found himself two behind after 12 holes and superbly regroup to win by four on the stunning Al Hamra course, Victory seemed assured for Hojgaard in teeing-up on the final day but then in golf, two days are never the same as the now double Tour winner will attest in signing ...

A player and caddy relationship is so much like a marriage.  Each needs to work in unison to make it work. Saying that the male professional golfer and his caddy would more each than each other’s respective wife or partner Take Paul Casey and Johnny ‘Long Sock’s McLaren with the duo now going their separate ways but not because of a bust-up in their ‘marriage’.  No, nothing could be further from the truth with the duo calling it time while the 55-year-old McLaren, who was the long-time ...