Golf, by TourMiss

… Dubai, UAE Jon Rahm was crowned the 2019 Race to Dubai Champion after claiming the richest first prize in tournament golf with a dramatic victory in the DP World Tour Championship, Dubai as the European Tour season’s long contest came down to a single shot. The Spaniard held off a determined late charge from Englishman Tommy Fleetwood to seal his second DP World Tour Championship title in three years and his fourth Rolex Series victory. Rahm went into the final round in a share of the lead ...

…. Dubai, UAE  Rory McIlroy has vowed not to touch his clubs again till the New Year after one of the most successful seasons of his now dozen-year pro career. McIlroy signed his season with a tired-looking final round 74 for fourth place at 12-under at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. It was not the result the great majority of fans in attendance at Jumeirah Estates and McIlroy had wished as he sought a career first of winning the same event three times but also end the year, and ...

…. Dubai, UAE Rory McIlroy is now starting at a historic career victory first heading into the final round DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. Not only is McIlroy seeking a fifth victory in a season for a third time in his career but he is just two shots shy in capturing, and in what would be the maiden time as a pro, the same European Tour event three times. Never before in his now 27 worldwide victories has McIlrory enjoyed such a triple tournament triumph toast. McIlroy brilliantly bounced ...

…..Dubai, UAE Bob MacIntyre brilliantly stamped his 2019 ‘Rookie of the Year’ victory credentials is laying down a 10-shot difference between his nearest rival heading to the final round of the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. McIntyre, and after two days being more concerned on playing partner and American Kurt Kitayama, focussed on what he proudly termed ‘Bob’s Golf’ and in the process helping the 23-year old in posting a third round 68 for a three-under par tally on the Jumeirah ...

… Dubai, UAE European Tour CEO, Keith Pelley has defended the absence of many of the leading European-born players who chose not to contest the most-recent Turkish Airlines Open and the following week’s Nedbank Challenge. Both events were very-lucrative Rolex Series tournaments with the Turkish Airlines Open boasting a then European Tour record first prize cheque of $2m and for that to be topped the following week at Sun City when Tommy Fleetwood collected a $2.5m first prize payout. The ...

… Dubai, UAE  Top-ranked Scot Bob MacIntyre confessed his disappointed a huge Tartan support contingent in letting slip a five-shot mid-round lead over his ‘Rookie of the Year’ rival with a 74 on day two of the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. The young Scot went well ahead of American and playing partner Kurt Kitayama, and closest challenger for the Sir Henry Cotton trophy, with a birdie at 11 before dropping a shot at 13. MacIntrye, and with at least half of Oban out on the Jumeirah ...

… Dubai, UAE  Frenchman Mike Lorenzo-Vera is already dreaming of a ‘prize’ for himself in taking a three-shot lead into the final two rounds of the DP World Tour Championship here in Dubai. Lorenzo-Vera had set the course alight on day one in posting a blistering nine-under par 63 and added a day two 69 for a 12-under par tally. The 34-year old Bayonne golfer is yet to win on the European Tour and would have ended five shots clear had it not been for bogeys on 15 and then three-putting ...