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…… Fatiha Betscher It will be just a day short of two months since Collin Morikawa became the first American to be crowned European No. 1 when he tees up in this week’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Morikawa posted a final round 66 to win the season-ending DP World Tour Championship by three shots and in the process captured the Race to Dubai title. It was the third victory in 2021 for the 24-year-old who arrived in Dubai having won the WGC – Workday Championship and also the ...

After his best New Year start in four years, Russell Knox is determined to ‘roll the snowball’ all the way to a hopeful best season in this his 15th year in the pro ranks. Knox produced four rounds in the 60s, including a Hawaiian last day 65 to share to seventh place in the Sony Open on the island of Oahu. It was the Scot’s best finish in the event that he’s played at the start of a New Year for the past four years and helped him pocket £stg 167,000 while he was also rewarded with a jump ...

Seamus Power has moved inside the world’s top-50 and the hopeful assurance of a Masters invitation following his third-place finish at the Sony Open in Hawaii. Power’s superb new season form continues with a closing round of 65 for a 19-under-par tally on the Wai’akae course in Honolulu. The West Waterford golfer was tied with American Kevin Kisner (64) and four adrift of Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama who pulled off the shot of the tournament in the play-off to defeat Russell ...

For 16-years the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship has been the new season starting point for many of the best competing on the now renamed DP World Tour. The tournament in the UAE capital has also seen some of the best in the world win on the National course at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club that boasts the stunning falcon clubhouse. And winning the equally stunning falcon trophy has been a who’s who in golf including double-major winning Martin Kaymer, who’s won the event three times, along with Ireland’s ...

… by Fatiha Betscher Colin Montgomerie will be competing on the DP World Tour for the first time in three years when he tees up in this week’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship in Abu Dhabi. Monty, 58, has not competed on the ‘regular’ tour since missing the cut in the 2019 Dubai Desert Classic. It’s also been eight years since the champion Scot last competed in the UAE capital and joins fellow European Ryder Cup captains Padraig Harrington and Thomas Bjorn in the $8m Rolex Series event. Seven ...

In admitting he was getting ‘hammered’ in most quarters over recent years, Bryson DeChambeau wants to be at peace with all those involved in golf and to better recognise his efforts in helping grow the game of golf. DeChambeau was at home in Texas hosting a Zoom conference call in his ‘trophy room’ with the John Deere Classic trophy, and his first win on the PGA Tour, over his left shoulder and there down on the right of the American you could spot the top of his US Open trophy beside the ...

Big-hitting Bryson DeChambeau said he is looking to ‘stack the cards’ in his favour heading to this year’s 150th anniversary Open Championship at St. Andrews. The 28-year-old has never played the host Old Course while this year’s Open will be a fifth showing in golf’s oldest major. And in a Zoom call promoting next month’s Saudi Invitational he was asked his thoughts in heading to Scotland for The Open. “What’s funny is I’ve never played St. Andrews, ...