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Rory McIlroy has spoken ahead of this week of his desire to cut down his yearly playing schedule. The World No. 3 at the close of this week’s DP World Tour Championship will have contested 26 tournaments this year and that will be five more than last year while the last time he played anywhere near 26 events was 27 back in 2010. McIlroy’s highest number events a year remains 29 events in 2008 and in a first full year as a professional, and also a year he turned 19-years of age. He tees-up ...

Despite the still unresolved division in the men’s professional game those that make a living competing inside the ropes still seem to show enormous respect to their fellow golfers no matter what tour they represent. Take five time DP World Tour No. 1 Rory Mcllroy who spoke warmly of Sergio Garcia and how the super Spaniard inspired him in his early years as a professional. Though that was not the scenario a few years back when Garcia and McIlroy had a huge falling out that looked like ruining ...

Top Scot Robert MacIntyre heads into his final DP World Tour (DPWT) event of the season singing the praise of ​his ‘career changing’ year. The lofty World No. 16 tees-up in the DP World Tour Championship joining American Billy Horschell as the only player this week to have won twice on this year’s PGA Tour​ and along with Rory McIlroy and Horschel, MacIntyre’s won both on the PGA and DPWR Tours in 2024. MacIntyre headed into his rookie PGA Tour season struggling with his game and ...

Billy Horschel has become one of the more popular Americans in recent years to compete on the DP World Tour (DPWT) Indeed the soon-to-be 38-year-old’s first ‘regular’ DPWT event was a fourth place finish at the 2019 BMW PGA Championship. Horschel returned two years later to capture the Tour’s flagship event and also adding two earlier events, both in Scotland – the Scottish Open and the Dunhill Links to his schedule. While a year later in 2022 he added a fourth and teeing-up ...

The return of the Austrian and Turkish Opens, as well a tournament in Louisville, Kentucky, will be all part of the 2025 DP World Tour global schedule which is announced today. ·        Features a minimum of 42 tournaments in a minimum of 26 different countries. ·        Austrian and Turkish Opens return, as does the Nedbank Golf Challenge. ·        ‘Global Swings’, the ‘Back 9’ and the ‘DP World Tour Play-Offs’ form three phases. Featuring a minimum of 42 Race ...

Who is Thirston Lawrence and the only player who can deny Rory McIlroy a sixth Race to Dubai title at this week’s season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai? Lawrence trails McIlroy by 1,786 points and with 2,000 points awarded to the winner of this week’s tournament is the only player who can mathematically become 2024 DP World Tour No. 1 and be handed the Harry Vardon Trophy. However, if Lawrence is to become a first South African born to win the coveted title in 20-years then ...

Not for a moment in looking back over the past 30-years when I lost my then full-time job working for a politician following the governments defeat in an Australian State election and then bizarrely two days later winning a golf tournament promotion, would I have thought in becoming a full-time golf journalist that it would have led to me now having played golf in 47 different countries (As of 1st November, 2024). My first round of golf in growing up in northern Sydney suburb of Willoughby was at ...