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Padraig Harrington could be staring captaining a European Team later next year sporting a 24-year age difference between his oldest and youngest in his Whistling Straits side. That’s if triple European Tour No. 1 Lee Westwood and Norwegian sensation, Vicktor Hovland qualify for Harrington’s 2021 side. Qualifying has been ‘frozen’ since early July and resumes on the 1st January, 2021. And when it does, you can be assured both Westwood and Hovland will be rubbing shoulders for Harrington’s ...

Robert MacIntyre returns to Oban guttered after a ‘disastrous’ last round of the season and losing out two-fold in the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. MacIntyre let slip an automatic end-of-year invitation into next April’s Masters and also missed out on joining Sandy Lyle as the only back-to-back ‘Rookie of the Year’ and also European No. 1 the following year, in a horror final round 77. The Oban lefty finished a whopping 10 shots behind England’s Matthew Fitzpatrick who ...

England’s Matthew Fitzpatrick brilliantly captured a second DP World Tour Championship as fellow Brit Lee Westwood became the oldest winner of the European No. 1 crown, winning a third Race to Dubai title and 20 years after the first and 11-years following his second. Fitzpatrick, 26 fended-off all that was thrown at him first in racing clear of his rivals with four birdies in his opening four holes and then went to five-under with a birdie on seven before playing his closing 11 holes in one-over ...

Robert MacIntyre is headed for a golf bag full of career firsts should he capture the European No. 1 crown. MacIntyre brilliantly burst in frame to join fellow Scot Sandy Lyle as only two players in 60-years to win the ‘Rookie of the Year’ one year and No. 1 European crown the next after a stunning DP World Tour Championship bogey-free third day 66 on the Earth course at Jumeirah Estates course in Dubai. As well, MacIntyre would also be the first Scot in 15-years since Colin Montgomerie ...

The season-ending DP World Tour Championship is set to end on a thrilling note with 11 players within four shots of the lead heading to the final round of the last event of the 2020 European Tour season. Texan Patrick Reed struggled forfeiting his two shot second day leading cushion and managing to birdie the last hole for a third day running in a 71 to move to 11-under par on the Earth course at Jumeirah Estates course. Tied with Reed atop of the Euro 6.6 million event is the England duo of Laurie ...

Graeme McDowell ended his ‘very strange year’ on a disappointing note with a back injury ruling him out of the final two rounds at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. McDowell birdied the last hole in a bogey-laden second round four-over par 76 that handed him a five-over par tally in the no-cut event on the Earth course. ‘G Mac’, and returning to Jumeirah Estates for a first occasion since 2014, was then lying in a share of 58th in the 65-player season-ending European Tour ...

Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre pulled-off his ‘up-and-down’ of the at the last on day two of the DP World Tour Championship to keep alive an invitation to next April’s Masters. The official World Rankings body released its ‘Week 50’ projections just ahead MacIntyre posting a clearly frustrating second round level par 72 to drop 10 spots into a share of 12th at four-under par on the Earth course at Jumeirah Estates. The Oban lefty now needs to pick-up at least eight spots over the closing ...