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Masters champion Adam Scott was full of praise for ultra-talented Moroccan-born amateur Adam Bresnau. Scott and Bresnau, along with American lefty Akshay Bhatia went out in the same group on day three of the $9m Hero Dubai Desert Classic signing for respective rounds of 69, 72 and Bhatia a 73 in bright but testing windy conditions on the host Emirates club course. It is only Bresnau’s second time in Dubai and the first being at the end of last year when he captured the Pan Arab Amateur Championship ...

Tyrrell Hatton gave new meaning to golfing term ‘holes out’ when he attacked a tee marker at the seventh hole on day three of the Hero Dubai Desert Classic. The reigning Dunhill Links champion played a poor tee shot at the 191-yard, par-3 hole that landed some 50-foot right of the flag. Hatton then turned and with his first swipe at the tee maker rather tame while the second put a hole in the marker and will surely result in the LIV player being fined. Golfing colleague and Guardian correspondent ...

Scotland’s Ewen Ferguson was far from pleased when he found himself ‘put on the clock’ by a DP World Tour official while still very much in contention late in his round on day three of the Hero Dubai Desert Classic here in Dubai. Ferguson was one-over par for his third round heading down the 16th hole on the host Emirates Golf Club course when he, and playing in the group of Kiwi Dan Hillier and Aussie Jason Scrivener, was approached and advised to speed-up his play by the Tour’s ...

Scotland’s Calum Hill could not have been more pleased not only playing along four-time Hero Dubai Desert Classic winnner Rory McIlroy but finishing ahead of the four-time major-winner of day three of the Rolex Series event. Hill, and competing this week without official PING endorsement since turning pro in 2017, grabbed seven birdies in a ‘moving day’ 67 to end the round at eight-under and sharing sixth place on the host Emirate course. McIlroy, in contrast, continues to get out ...

Tom McKibbin was singing the praise of the Odyssey Jailbird putter in finding himself the leading Irishman after two rounds of the season-opening Hero Dubai Desert Classic. McKibbin, 22, birdied four of his last eight holes for a round of 69 to climb into a share of 15th place on five-under-par and seven shots off the halfway pace set by Scotland’s Ewen Ferguson. Dubai resident Ferguson brilliantly ended his round birdie, eagle in a score of 65 to move to 12-under and one clear of Kiwi Daniel Hillier ...

  “I f***ing well hope so!” Jon Rahm delivered a most memorable recommendation when asked if he would like to see top-Scot Robert MacIntyre again as a team-mate later this year in defending the Ryder Cup at Bethpage Park Black in New York. Rahm had just crashed-out on debut in the Hero Dubai Desert Classic with scores of 69 and a bogey-laden 77 for a two-over tally on the host Emirates Golf Club course. The top LIV Golf star and Masters champions second round included just two birdies ...

Scotland’s Ewen Ferguson was soaring high and into a one-shot lead thanks to a birdie, eagle finish on day two of the Hero Dubai Desert Classic. Ferguson added a seven-under 65 to his opening round score of 67 to move to 12-under and clear of his rivals in the $US 9m Rolex Series event on the host Emirates Golf Club course where he is club’s official ambassador. The reigning BMW International Open champion has not dropped over the two rounds as he also seeks to capture a fourth DP World ...