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Efforts to encourage World No. 1 Jon Rahm to tee-up in this week’s season-ending DP World Tour Championship went all the way to European Tour boss Keith Pelley. Rahm’s decision not to travel to Dubai, and an event he finished first in both 2017 and 2019, has had the Tour in virtual damage control mode. Despite not only personal pleas from Pelley and many calls from other senior Tour staff to Rahm’s manager, the reigning US Open winner won’t be moved from spending time with ...

… by Fatiha Betscher in Dubai Padraig Harrington, and in some 70 steps from the back of the 18th green to the scorer’s hut, went from brilliantly qualifying for this coming week’s DP World Tour Championship to the disappointment in ending a 25th season on tour. Harrington brilliantly holed a lengthy birdie putt from the front edge of the final green to break into the top-54 qualifiers for the Race to Dubai final following a third straight of 67 and a then finishing share of fifth place ...

The European Tour is working overtime to have World No.1, European Tour No. 1 and past double event winner Jon Rahm change his mind and tee-up in next week’s season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. It is understood Rahm has formally advised the Tour of his withdrawal though when asked if, in fact, Rahm has withdrawn for the Tour’s season-ending event, Director of Tour Operations, David Garland said:  “We’ve had no official word from Jon Rahm he won’t be playing next ...

Scott Jamieson’s decision to shorten his driver reaped a reward of finding his way high up the leaderboard heading the weekend rounds of the AVIV Dubai Championship. Jamieson produced a sizzling seven-under par 65 to move to 10-under par and sharing 10th place with fellow Scot Grant Forrest, who matched his compatriots score, in continuing sauna-like conditions on the aptly-named Fire Course of the Jumeirah Estates in Dubai. Frenchman and defending champ Antoine Rozner again lit-up the ...

Padraig Harrington’s quest to qualify for next week’s season-ending DP World Tour Championship bizarrely just gets better and again without the Irishman hitting a shot. Harrington found his way inside the top-20 on day two of the final event of the ‘regular’ season in posting a five-under par 67 for a combined nine-under par 36 hole in continuing sauna-like conditions in the AVIV Dubia Championship on the aptly named Fire course at Jumeirah Estates in Dubai. Defending Dubai ...

Scotland’s David Law had a very special supporter waiting for him following his opening round of his final event of the 2021 Race to Dubai season in Dubai. Law rolled-in a 10-foot birdie putt at the last in a round of a two-under par 70 at the AVIV Dubai Championship being played for a second year running on the Fire course at Jumeirah Estates. Dane Joachim B Hansen was out in the third group of the day producing a sizzling bogey-free, nine-under par 63 to end the round leading by two shots ...

Padraig Harrington had good reason to feel short-changed after signing for a four-under par 68 on the opening of the AVIV Dubai Championship at the Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai. Harrington was four-under with five birdies and a bogey after just nine holes and then produced nine inward half pars in his round in very hot and slightly humid conditions on the Fire course. Dane Joachim B. Hansen, and out in the third group of the day, leads the field by two shots in producing a bogey-free nine-under ...