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Springbok golfing sensation MG Keyser kept his cool when it mattered most on a steamy afternoon to win the Golf Citizen Classic, beating Spain’s Victor Bertran in a sudden-death playoff at the Els Club, Dubai, on Wednesday. Bertran, playing in the seventh last group, carded a final round of 66 to set the clubhouse target of nine under that the South African ace, who started the day two in front, matched with a birdie on the 18th to force a playoff. Keyser, who closed with a 73, hit the green ...

Atlanta, GA … World No. 1 Dustin Johsnon singled out Marc Leishman for special praise ahead of this week’s PGA Tour 2016/17 season-concluding Tour Championship in Atlanta. Johnson returns to East Lake course with bitter-sweet memories sharing the lead on day, leading on day two and in a tie for the lead with a round to play but only to shoot a disappointing last day 73 and watch from the clubhouse as Rory McIlroy defeated his good friend, Kevin Chappell with a birdie at the first extra hole. But ...

Zane Scotland admitted to feeling the buzz again after hauling himself back into contention as Sweden’s Oscar Hertzberg produced one of the rarest shots in golf, an albatross, ahead of the final round of the Golf Citizen Classic at the Els Club, Dubai, on Tuesday. England’s Scotland, a 10-time winner on the MENA Tour, rediscovered some magic of old, following his solid opening 69 with a 67 to join Wales’ Toby Hunt and Hamza Amin of Pakistan in a three-way tie for second on eight-under, just ...

It comes as no surprise Rory McIlroy has laid the blame for an indifferent season squarely on an injury-interrupted year. McIlroy ended his PGA Tour last week in Chicago which a poorest FedEx Cup standing since joining the Tour full-time in 2011. However, it didn’t help McIlroy’s year that he sat out nearly six weeks early on in 2017 after a rib tear and then only to aggravate the injury overdoing the practice in returning in May. It is the reason why McIlroy will shut down his season for six ...

MENA Tour rookie Abhishek Jha fired a flawless seven-under 65 to seize the early momentum in the Golf Citizen Classic at the Els Club, Dubai, on Monday. In sparking form off the tee, the 30-year-old from the southern Indian city of Bengaluru, Jha reeled off seven birdies, including four on the bounce from the third to move atop the leaderboard, a good two shots clear of Pakistan’s Hamza Amin and South Africa’s MG Keyser, the winner of last week’s Dubai Creek Open. South Africa’s Teagan Moore, ...

Justin Rose not only had to watch first-hand good friend Marc Leishman win the BMW Championship but the Englishman also conceded Leishman’s two sons easily won bragging rights over Rose’s own two children. Rose found himself in the penultimate group behind Leishman at Conway Farms and as much as the Olympic Gold medal winner tried Leishman fought off everything his English rival threw at him. Rose did get to within two strokes of the bearded Aussie when Leishman bogeyed the 13th but the dropped ...

Marc Leishman was in a class of his own leading from start-to-finish and unchallenged to capture a second PGA Tour this season with a record-equalling Play-Offs victory in the BMW Championship at Conway Farms. Leishman also captured an 11th win of his professional career but easily the biggest in posting a closing round 67 to win by three shots with a 23-under par triumph. Leishman deflected everyone who sought to deny him the BMW title including fellow Australian Jason Day, American golfing heart-throb ...