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DP World Tour Championship Notebook – Day 4

  |  November 25, 2012

DP World Tour Championship Notebook – Day 4
Nicolas Colsaerts. Pic: Pawan Singh / The National

Nicolas Colsaerts is known to be, to use his own vernacular, “one cool cat”.

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DP World Tour Championship Notebook – Day 3

  |  November 24, 2012

DP World Tour Championship Notebook – Day 3
Joost Luiten plays his second shot on the 18th yesterday. Pic: David Cannon/Getty

The last time Joost Luiten played a tournament in Dubai, such were his troubles on the greens that he threatened to part company with his putter even before the round was finished.  

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DP World Tour Championship Notebook – Day 2

  |  November 23, 2012

DP World Tour Championship Notebook – Day 2
Henrik Stenson confers with his caddie at the DP World Tour Championship. Pic: Pawan Singh/The National

In his debut at this tournament, Marcel Siem was betrayed by a lack of local knowledge yesterday when he fired his approach to the final green into a creek he did not realise was there.

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DP World Tour Championship Notebook – Day 1

  |  November 22, 2012

DP World Tour Championship Notebook – Day 1
Caroline Wozniacki thinks about her Christmas list while watching Rory McIlroy at the Earth Course. Pic: Nikhil Monteiro/Reuters

Confusion reigned in the media centre at the Earth Course yesterday when the giant electronic screen displaying the scores flashed up a hole-in-one for George Coetzee.

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