A stunning display of ball-striking has earned West Australian Min Woo Lee a share of the lead through three rounds of the DP World Tour’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship in Abu Dhabi.
In contrast to the on-going, protracted and inevitably fractious legal discord between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour, the parallel dispute between the Saudi-backed circuit and the DP World Tour is expected to play out to a relatively timely conclusion early next month.
Any interview with Padraig Harrington is a bit like playing the Old Course at St. Andrews. Width is hardly ever an issue, the subject free to roam, think for himself and come up with his own imaginative solutions to any problems or obstacles.
Stenson, along with 11 other players who have teed-up at least once on the Saudi-backed LIV Golf tour (a list that includes Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter, Patrick Reed, Bernd Wiesberger and Adrian Otaegui), appear on the entry list for the upcoming Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship.
The tour and DP World Tour announced they have expanded their relationships with the Korea Professional Golfers’ Association, with the KPGA now a part of the circuits’ strategic alliance.
In addition to grabbing a DP World Tour card, Bradbury also secured an invitation into the 2023 Open Championship at Royal Liverpool given to the top three finishers this week not already in the field next July.
Cameron Smith has held on to win a third Australian PGA Championship, lifting the Joe Kirkwood Cup at Royal Queensland after weather twice suspended play on Sunday.
Cameron Smith says he will “still be shitting himself” on the first tee on Sunday morning at the Australian PGA Championship despite surging into a three-shot lead 54-hole lead after a gutsy third round at Royal Queensland.