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American Harold Varner 111 continued to fight the off-shore Red Sea winds the best retaining his lead in signing for a two-under-par 68 and retaining a one-shot lead at 12-under-par. Spaniard Ardi Arnaus also holds down his second place in the $5m event shooting a 69 and edge to 10-under, and with England’s Tommy Fleetwood continuing to edge closer to the first win in over two years signing for 67 to be a 10-under. Double Saudi winning Dustin Johnson, and like Fleetwood, birdied the last also in ...

In any marriage break-up, there are always two sides to the story. It is no different in golf as we are now seeing with the strained relations between the DP World Tour and the Asian Tour. The two tours have been very close golf tournament staging companions since the inaugural co-sanctioned European and Asian tour event in 1999 at the Maybank Malaysian Open. However, this 23-year partnership is, in the view of Asian Tour Commissioner Cho Minn Thant, ‘icy’, and suggestions from the Singapore-based ...

…… Fatiha Betscher, Al Hamra, RAK  Scotland’s David Law was soaring high with two eagles and sending him into a two-shot lead heading to the weekend rounds of the inaugural Ras Al Khaimah Championship in the UAE emirate. Law, 30, chipped in for an eagle ‘3’ at the par-5 14th, and the fifth hole of his round, and then did the same at his 17th hole and the par-eighth hole, by sending a 17-yard pin high chip shot to the bottom of the cup in a stunning round of 64 to head the ...

American Harold Varner III and Spain’s Adri Arnaus battled the bruising blustery second round conditions best to show the way at 12-under-par into the weekend rounds of the PIF Saudi International powered by SoftBank Investment Advisers here in Saudi Arabia Varner 111 benefitted from the slightly less testing weather, and teeing-off at 8.20 am local time, to add a superb six-under 66 to his opening 64 before being joined on 10-under by Spaniard Adri Arnaus with similar rounds, and with Arnaus ...

Seamus Power immediately put himself again in focus for a second PGA Tour victory in brilliantly birdieing his closing four holes to finish in second place on day one of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Power posted an eight-under-par 64 at Spyglass Hill and one of three annual host venues for the famed tournament being played along the Pacific Ocean shoreline. American Tom Hoge was at Pebble Beach and finishing one shot fewer to lead the field after his nine-under 63. Power’s name has ...

….. Fatiha Betscher, Al Hamra GC, RAK  Scott Jamieson’s rich vein of good early new season form continues in posting a seven-under-par 65 to share the lead heading to day two of the inaugural Ras Al Khaimah Championship. Jamieson, who led for three rounds at last fortnight’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, joined German Sebastian Heisele who was out in the first group on the stunning Al Hamra course. Jamieson, 38, started his round from the longest point of the course at the par-3 ‘over ...

The sight of Matteo Manassero’s name atop the leaderboard on day one of the Saudi International brings back many fond memories of this most affable of Italian golfers. Manassero’s eight-under-par 62 matches a career-low for the now 28-year-old Verona-born golfer, and a score he first shot in the final round in securing a share of second in the 2010 co-sanctioned UBS Hong Kong Open. His bogey-free score along the stunning Red Sea shoreline was capped by five birdies from the seventh to 12th holes ...