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Dubai, UAE … Rory McIlroy traded spotting lions and elephants last week in South Africa for looking at leaderboards in snatching seven birdies on day two of the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. McIlroy produced his lowest score of a five-under par 67 since last month’s Tour Championship to be trailing just three shots behind England’s Matthew Wallace. Bizarrely, Wallace had been fined Euro 3,400 a day earlier for slow play but made a mockery of his ‘tortoise’ ways in sprinting to ...

Dubai, UAE …. Rory McIlroy was very sympathetic after a bizarre incident at the European Tour Q-School final round that help to deny fellow Irish golfer Cormac Sharvin his 2019 full European Tour card. It has emerged Sharvin had incorrectly teed-up in Thursday’s sixth and final round from not behind the tee markers on the Lumine course at Tarragona in Spain. Sharvin was completing his swing at the par-3 seventh hole when German playing partner, Alexander Knappe noticed the Irishman was marginally ...

Dubai, UAE …. Matt Wallace proved he was no tortoise in sprinting to the front of the field with a blistering seven birdie haul in a round of 65 on day two of the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. The Englishman had been fined £3,000 on day one of the European Tour season-ending event for slow-play mid-round but no such problems on day two in muscling his way to 11-under par on Wallace’s debut in the event. Wallace is seeking his fourth win of a remarkable season as he recorded a ...

Dubai, UAE …. Rory McIlroy was all smiles after posting a five-under par 67 while playing alongside USA Ryder Cup rival Patrick Reed on day two of the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. MORE TO FOLLOW

Dubai, UAE …. Russell Knox somewhat lost his appetite after posting a one-over par 73 on the opening day of his maiden DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. Knox managed two birdies along with one bogey but sticking out on his scorecard like the proverbial dog’s hind leg was a sixth hole double-bogey where he found water with his tee shot. It left the lone Scot in the field seven shots adrift of the leading duo of England’s Jordan Smith and Spaniard Adrian Otaegui who posted six-under par ...

Dubai, UAE … Paul Dunne bravely continues to struggle for the correct answers after gabbing five birdies in a disappointing level par 72 on the opening day of the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. Dunne was one-under par through 12 holes before playing the next five holes in one-over to be trailing seven shots behind the leading duo of Spaniard Adrian Ortego and England’s Jordan Smith who shot 66s in very hot conditions on the Jumeirah Estates course. European No. 1 elect Francesco Molinari ...

Dubai, UAE …. It was advantage Francesco Molinari, and albeit by just one shot, on the opening day of the season-ending DP World Tour Championship and the year’s final Rolex Series event in Dubai. Molinari did bogey two of his four closing holes in a four-under par 68 and one fewer than Race to Dubai rival Tommy Fleetwood. The duo of Spaniard Adrian Otaegui and Englishman Jordan Smith share the first round lead at Jumeirah Golf Estates after carding a pair of six under par rounds of 66. Fleetwood, ...