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For 16-years the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship has been the 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 own Shane ...

Padraig Harrington delivered Robert MacIntyre a blunt assessment as to why the super Scot failed to qualify or be picked for last September’s European Ryder Cup ranks. MacIntyre fell agonizingly shy of qualifying automatically and in the end European captain Harrington went for the winning experience of Shane Lowry and the Ryder Cup veteran pair of Sergio Garcia and Ian Poulter. Harrington singled out MacIntyre’s decision chasing not only his PGA Tour card but entering the secondary KornFerry ...

Shane Lowry had a smile on his face but it was nothing to do with the brutal conditions on day two of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship on a very windswept Yas Links course. Lowry dug deep, exhibiting all the traits that earned him victory in the 149th Open Championship, in posting a level par 72 to remain well in contention at five-under-par. Scotland’s Scott Henderson continues to lead and manage to complete his round with a two-over-par 74 and lead by a shot at seven-under, and just prior ...

Rory McIlroy could be mistaken he was competing in Scotland in October rather than what should be the New Year heat in the UAE capital. McIlroy was not alone in battling near 60 km off-shore winds and the late afternoon chill, and on one of the toughest weather-related days in the 17-year history of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship in the UAE capital The World No. 8 had shown a little New Year rust in posting a Thursday starting score of a level par 72 but nothing prepared all those ...

Braveheart Scott Jamieson continued to defy not only the efforts of the game’s best but also ‘windier than Scotland’ weather on day two of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Jamieson, 38, moved four shots clear early on before a mid-round collapse before a superb 17th hole birdie in a round of 74 to maintain his one-shot lead at seven-under-par on the Yas Links course.  In-form Viktor Hovland (74) and Ian Poulter (72) are next best at six-under-par. In probably the worst weather in the 17-year ...

Seamus Power continues to impress, muscling his way to a share of fifth with a seven-under-par 65 on the opening day of the American Express at Palm Springs in California. Power didn’t drop a shot in competing on the Nicklaus course and was one of three venues playing host to the $7.6m event that for so many years was known as the Bob Hope Desert Classic. The new World No. 49 will head to the Pete Dye Stadium course for his second round just three shots adrift of the leading American duo of Patrick ...

A bearded Adam Scott was singing the praise of playing partner Nicolai Hojgaard after the opening round of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship in the UAE capital. Scott is competing in the Middle East for the first time since 2000 and is grouped with Hojgaard and Austrian Bernd Wiesberger for the opening two rounds of the $8m Rolex Series event being played for a first time in 17-years on the Yas Links course. The 20-year-old Hojgaard matched Wiesberger’s three-under-par 69 while Scott signed for a ...