Brandon Robinson-Thompson is ranked 227th in the world. He\u2019s won twice on the HotelPlanner Tour and finished a career-best 51st in last year\u2019s final Race to Dubai standings.<\/p>\n
And yet, the 33-year-old Englishman found himself in a unique situation Friday in Dubai.<\/p>\n
\u201cStrange,\u201d Robinson-Thompson told reporters after serving as a competitive marker for the second round of the DP World Tour\u2019s Dubai Invitational.<\/p>\n
Robinson-Thompson began the week as the second alternate in the 60-man, pro-am-style event. But after Richard Manswell withdrew during Thursday\u2019s first round, Robinson-Thompson was called in to pair with one of the amateurs, according to the DPWT.<\/p>\n
Despite not getting into the tournament, Robinson-Thompson had been onsite practicing in preparation for next week\u2019s Hero Dubai Desert Classic.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny chance I get to come out and test my game is an opportunity just to see where I\u2019m at,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a really great golf course, tricky conditions today. But yeah, first one of the year, just to see where we are at and almost like a little warm up for next week. \u2026 I was here anyway. I was going to be practicing onsite, but to get out on the golf course and hit some shots is a real bonus.\u201d<\/p>\n
With another amateur withdrawing Friday, though, Robinson-Thompson will head back to the range for Saturday\u2019s third round and final day of the pro-am portion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brandon Robinson-Thompson is ranked 227th in the world. He\u2019s won twice on the HotelPlanner Tour and finished a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-417151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}