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​​Dubai, UAE …. Rory McIlroy joked he’s heading into his Christmas/New Year break looking for a ‘brain transplant’ after ending his year well down the board at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. McIlroy was clearly in a ‘glad the season is over’ mood in posting a final round 73 for an eight-under par tally for a distant share of 21st place in the year-ending European Tour event at Jumeirah Estates. If left McIlroy trailing 10 shots behind England’s Danny Williett ...

Dubai, UAE …. It has been more than two years since Danny Willett captured the hearts of the golfing world in winning the Masters at Augusta National. In being fitted with the famed Augusta members green jacket, Willett rose to No. 11 in the world but in battling back injury and also after missing a fourth cut in a row at this year’s BMW PGA Championship, the affable Englishman had plunged to No. 462nd in the rankings. Now after a strong seventh place finish in the recent Turkish Airlines ...

Dubai, UAE  …. Rory McIlroy reckons he’s prepared to give it one last shot this season and close-off 2019 with a 64 on the final day of the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. McIlroy had moved to 10-under par and only four shots from the lead with a birdie at the 15th hole on day three of the season-ending European Tour event and also the finale of the Rolex Series. That was before finding the water guarding the green at the par-3 17th and walking-off with a gut-wrenching double-bogey ...

Dubai, UAE … England’s Tommy Fleetwood has conceded the European No. 1 crown to good friend, Francesco Molinari. Fleetwood, and the reigning European No. 1, confessed his ‘time was up’ after posting a third round 74 for a six-under par total on day three of the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. It left Fleetwood trialing eight shots adrift of the Masters winning leading duo of American Patrick Reed (67) and England’s Danny Willett (68). Molinari, like Fleetwood, has ...

Dubai, UAE … Paul Dunne gained from a pre-round tip by coach, Justin Parsons and confidently turned around a first day 72 with a second round 69 for a brighter-looking  three-under par tally in the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. Dunne, who admitted he was searching for answers after a first of five birdies but also five bogeys, turned that around with four second round birdies and just the one dropped shot to be just inside the top-30 and eight shots behind Englishman Matt Wallace (65) ...

Dubai, UAE … Russell Knox boosted a goal of grabbing a share of a £7.8m ($US10m) end-of-season bonus to also be well in contention heading to the weekend rounds in n Dubai. The lone Scot in the elite 60-only field split the fairways with monotonous regularity to produce a bogey-free second round 68 for a three-under par tally. It left the 33-year old trailing eight shots behind England’s Matt Wallace who posted a round of 65 to lead by a shot on 11-under and this is after being slapped ...

Dubai, UAE… Rory McIlroy may have raised plenty of eyebrows with a decision not to rejoin the 2019 European Tour but he’s won support from event organisers with a decision also not to contest next year’s Omega Dubai Desert Classic. McIlroy hinted at the recent Tour Championship in Atlanta he would be starting his 2019 season in Hawaii and that probably meant mising out for just a second time in his pro career beginning a New Year in either Dubai or Abu Dhabi. And the current World ...