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…… 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 ...

Harold Varner 111s victory putt was so long it needed a visa with the American sensationally denying good friend and double Masters winning Bubba Watson to capture the Saudi International. Varner 111 first landed his second shot into the downwind par-5 18th just on the front edge of the green in two and then putting to a pin located the back left corner on the Royal Greens course. The American, one behind on the final tee, just needed to two-putt the last to ensure a play-off. What happened next ...

... Fatiha Betscher, Al Hamra, RAK  Scotland’s David Law saw a three-shot lead early on day three end in being three behind heading to the last round of the inaugural Ras Al Khaimah Championship in the northern-most UAE emirate. Law, 30, was well in command on the stunning Al Hamra course albeit for the three closing holes when hotshot Danish twin Nicolai Hojgaard muscled his way past the Scot thanks to three closing birdies in an eight-under-par 64. Hojgaard leads at 20-under par and with ...

For more than a decade Brad Kennedy has plied his trade on the Japan Tour. It may surprise people the now 47-year-old has won 15-times in his career and with three of those in Japan, and the latest being the 2018 Shigeo Nagashima Invitational Sega Sammy Cup. I guess it’s fair to say this quietly-spoken Queenslander has gone about his golf without fanfare or regular news of his endeavors in Japan, which is in stark contrast to his Aussie compatriots competing on the PGA Tour or the DP World Tour. It’s ...