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… Dubai, UAE  Shane Lowry has returned to the UAE eleven months on from where his ‘amazing dream’ was conceived. It was 120lkms north from here at the Jumeirah Estate in Dubai to the Abu Dhabi Golf Club, and where a then 74th world ranked Lowry commenced his season in superb winning style leading from start-to-finish in the UAE capital. In the intervening 11 months or so Lowry brilliantly climbed to one of four pinnacles in his chosen sport in capturing golf’s oldest Major Championship ...

… Dubai, UAE  It’s a ‘formula’ admits Rory McIlroy he’s not about to change despite being ruled out of capturing a third European No. 1 crown this week in Dubai. McIlroy will wind-up a twelfth full season in the pro-ranks at Thursday’s starting DP World Tour Championship and a red-hot favourite to win the Tour season-closing event for third occasion in eight years. The current World No. 2 has already won four times this year, most recent in his last event in Shanghai, and if McIlroy ...

… Dubai, UAE  Tommy Fleetwood has arrived in Dubai for this week’s season-ending DP World Tour Championship looking to make it two Race to Dubai victories in three seasons. Fleetwood leapfrogged eight places to No. 2 on the Race to Dubai following his emotional victory last Sunday at the Nedbank Challenge. The new World No. 10 produced a stunning Sun City final round that included three eagles in ending a 22-month winless drought in South Africa. This year marks the 11st staging of the ...

Scot Ewen Ferguson went on birdie blitz in posting an equal-best score of 64 on day four at the European Tour Q-School at Tarragona in Spain. Ferguson, 23 didn’t drop a shot to muscle his way to a share of 17th at 10-under par and six shots adrift of Dane Benjamin Poke who heads the now 77-player reduced field heading to the final two rounds on the Lumine course. And thanks to having his father for support, the Bearsden golfer is on target to be among the top-25 after the six rounds on Wednesday ...

….. Dubai, UAE  NB – No copying of Mcllroy quotes or use of photograph without @TourMiss permission Rory McIlroy knows it’s now mathematically impossible to win a third Race to Dubai but he’s going to have fun with stand-in caddy, Niall O’Connor striving to capture a third DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. McIlroy is without regular caddy, Harry Diamond whose wife, Claire recently gave birth to the couple’s first child, a daughter named Georgia Iris. “Erica and I are really ...

………Dubai, UAE  World No. 2 Rory Mcllroy will have a new caddy for the European Tour season-ending DP World Tour Championship here in Dubai. McIlroy arrived in Dubai with good friend and Irish rugby star, Niall O’Connor who will shoulder the four-time Major winner’s bag but just in a one-off arrangement. Harry Diamond, who has caddied for McIlroy since July 2017, is taking time off to be with his wife, Claire after the birth of the couple’s first child, a daughter ...

Top-ranked Scot Robert MacIntyre heads to this week’s season-ender in Dubai just four rounds shy of being honoured with the prestigious European Tour ‘Rookie of the Year’ award after a gallant final round at the Nedbank Challenge in South Africa. The Oban lefty picked-up 13 spots in muscling his way to a share of eighth-place courtesy of a closing round 68 in continuing heatwave conditions at Sun City. England’s Tommy Fleetwood broke out in tears in ending a 22-month victory drought to ...