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Dubai, UAE …. Three-time Major winner Padraig Harrington recovered from an eighth hole double-bogey and then a ninth hole bogey in a score of 75 to make the cut on the number at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic. Like Open Champion Shane Lowry who moved to three-under par for the tournament after returning a brave 69 on day two, it will be a first European Tour event this year in which Harrington plays all four rounds. “I hit it all over the place and this is after I warmed-up great but then ...

Dubai, UAE  …... Shane Lowry rekindled his Open Championship winning form with a gutsy 69 to be just five shots off the lead heading to the weekend rounds of the Omega Dubai Desert Classic. Lowry buried any lingering demons in missing the cut in last week’s defence of his Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship defence with four birdies, and none better than a 20-footer at his second hole to move to three-under on a toughened Emirates course. England’s Eddie Pepperell (67) heads the field at eight-under ...

Dubai, UAE ... Top-ranked Scot Bob MacIntyre brushed-off any injury concern in comfortably making the cut at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic. MacIntyre, 23 birdied two of his opening four holes and also two of his closing four holes in two-under par 70 and a level par tally to be two shots inside the cut-off mark on the toughened Emirates Club course in Dubai. England’s Eddie Pepperell (67) heads the field at seven-under par with the trio of defending champ, Bryson DeChambeau (67), Sweden’s ...

Dubai, UAE …. South African Dean Burmester along with his wife, Melissa and four-year old son, Jordan were indeed fortunate to walk away from a four-car smash in returning to the Dubai hotel on Wednesday night. The were passengers in a UBER-hired Lexus that ploughed into the back of a Porsche around two kilometres from their hotel during this week’s Omega Dubai Desert Classic. Burmester, 30 who has won seven times on the Sunshine Tour injured his right ankle while he wife was a bit shaken-up ...

Dubai, UAE ... Prolific-winning Graeme McDowell has expressed some concern top-ranked Scot Bob MacIntyre is not doing further harm to his left wrist in contesting this week’s Omega Dubai Desert Classic. McDowell, McIntyre and England’s Paul Waring are grouped together for the opening two rounds of the event with G Mac grabbing bragging rights in snatching a pair of closing hole birdies in a level par 72. MacIntyre had birdied both the 16th and 17th holes to get back to one-over but played a ...

Dubai, UAE … It should have been a glowing return to Dubai for top-ranked Scot Robert MacIntyre.Some two months ago, he proudly left Dubai as the 2019 European Tour ‘Rookie of the Year’. Of course, the gloss was taken off MacIntyre’s start to a new decade when he withdrew from the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship but the green light to return to competition this week at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic is flashing as though it’s about to turn yellow. He was four-over through ...

Dubai, UAE  …. Graeme McDowell clearly showed his delight for a toughened US Open-like course set-up producing a right fist pump in taking a birdie at the final hole in a round of 72 on the opening day of the Omega Dubai Desert Classic. McDowell was out in the afternoon half of the draw and was progressing well over the front nine to be one-under and this after a birdie at the ‘tightened’ par-4 ninth hole. In fact, G Mac along with defending champ Bryson DeChambeau were just two players ...