Almost a year on from his maiden European Tour win, Joachim B Hansen was back at the top of the leaderboard after day one of the AVIV Dubai Championship.
The European Tour will mark its 50th anniversary next year with a raft of changes, including rebranding as the DP World Tour.
The rise and rise of the 22-year-old South African left-hander continues. But everything he has achieved has been down to good old-fashioned hard work.
Hideki Matsuyama ground his way into the lead in cold and wet conditions at the Zozo Championship on Friday.
The 2021 Joburg Open will usher in the start of the Sunshine Tour and European Tour’s major summer season in South African golf when the R17.5-million tournament is played at Randpark Golf Club from 25-28 November.
World No 1 Jon Rahm equalled his worst-ever European Tour round to sit 11 shots off the Andalucia Masters lead held by Frenchman Julien Guerrier on Thursday.
Top-level golf tournaments will be given the option of imposing a 46-inch limit on club length in an attempt to restrict driving distances – a move that could curb players such as big-hitting Bryson DeChambeau.
Since the men’s World Ranking was officially launched in 1986, there have been only 24 world No 1 golfers, writes Brendan Barratt. Predictably, Tiger Woods heads up the list, having held top spot for 683 weeks, but who else has been top dog?
Rafael Cabrera-Bello ended a poor run of form by winning the Spanish Open title on Sunday, edging out fellow home hope Adri Arnaus in a playoff in Madrid.
Wil Besseling led world No 1 and two-time champion Jon Rahm by a single shot at the halfway stage of the Spanish Open on Friday after completing 36 holes bogey-free.