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Dubai, UAE …. England’s Matt Wallace bravely saw a lighter side after being slapped with a £3,000 ‘slow play’ fine on his debut at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai. This season’s triple Tour winning Wallace was adjudged to have taken too long to putt out for par on the ninth hole and this after bizarrely being timed in birdiing both the seventh and eighth holes on the Earth Course. The Tour’s Chief Referee, Andy McFee was waiting for Wallace as he headed to the scorer’s ...

Dubai, UAE …. Rory McIlroy has brushed-off criticism following a likely decision note to take-up 2019 European Tour membership. McIlroy hinted earlier this week he would likely contest just two ‘pure’ European Tour events up to July’s Open Championship and hence the need not to be a European Tour member and in what will be a non-Ryder Cup year. It could see McIlroy also choosing not teeing-up in his ‘home’ Irish Open and instead contest the following week’s ...

Dubai, UAE … Paul McGinley has slammed Rory McIlroy’s suggestion he may not elect to take-up European Tour membership in 2019. McIlroy delivered shock waves to the European Tour and his Irish fans indicating on Tuesday he plans not to renew membership and hinting also he may skip contesting the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open next July in Lahinch. “Right now my European Tour membership is all sort of up in the air but if it were to be that I don’t fulfil my membership next year, it’s ...

Dubai, UAE … Shane Lowry is looking to celebrate the end of his 10th European Tour season with a double Dubai delight. Lowry joins Rory McIlroy and Paul Dunne in this week’s DP World Tour Championship and the final event on the 2018 Race to Dubai schedule. After more than 40 tournaments around the globe, the European No. 1 crown has come down to a battle between the best of friends – Francesco Molinari and Tommy Fleetwood. Lowry’s goal since returning to Europe for last month’s Portugal ...

Dubai, UAE …. It will have been some four months when Open Champion, Francesco Molinari finally gets to return home to Italy with the Claret Jug. The London-based Italian simply has not had time amid a heavy 2018 schedule, along with becoming the first player in the history of European Team Ryder Cup competition to win all five of his matches, to take his young family home to visit his parents. And what a triumphant journey home it promises to be for the 36-year old. Not only will Molinari ...

Dubai, UAE … Lone Scot Russell Knox is on mission teeing-up in a maiden DP World Tour Championship looking to turn a ‘B-minus’ year into an ‘A’ season. Knox and his wife, Andrea visited sprawling Dubai just once before and that was early in 2016 for a day visit while he was contesting the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship in nearby Abu Dhabi. The reigning Irish Open winner is among just 60 players who’ll tee-up this week on the Earth Course as the European Tour looks to ...

Dubai, UAE …. They are close friends but Francesco Molinari is not about to give Tommy Fleetwood the proverbial cold shoulder when the duo tee-up Thursday in the 2018 finale to the European Tour season. Only a victory by Fleetwood in the DP World Tour Championship will deny Molinari the title of European No.1. And while we saw their strong friendship during the recent Ryder Cup, Molinari was asked ahead of the $US 8m event what the atomsphere will be like between the two and  if he would be ...