Understandably emotional only eight months after being cleared of wrongdoing after alleged incidents on a flight from the US to London saw him end up in a court of law, Olesen was close to tears more than once.
Even in golf, things can sometimes turn out just like you think they might. So it is that the two highest-ranked players in the field at the Steyn City Championship finished first and second.
Which players aren’t at Pebble Beach and which are in Saudi Arabia instead has dominated the headlines this week. But there’s also a third big men’s pro golf event happening on the DP World Tour. And it provided a funny highlight that will be tough to, um, top.
Gone are the Januarys when McIlroy would scribble those ambitions on his airline boarding pass en route to the Middle East. Instead, he now uses a journal.
Coach Grant Field had a simple message as his young charge prepared to sleep on a six-stroke lead at the Fortinet Australian PGA Championship on Friday night: Just do you.
The DP World Tour and ISPS Handa PGA Tour of Australasia (PGATA) are delighted to jointly announce an extension of their Strategic Alliance through until 2026 and to announce that the Fortinet Australian PGA Championship will be returning to Brisbane’s Royal Queensland Golf Club as part of the DP World Tour in late 2022.