Fox will line up at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am later this week in his first Signature Event on 2026, which includes a total prize purse of US$20m ($33.2m).<\/p>\n
On the DP World Tour, Patrick Reed continued his impressive cruise round the Gulf as he won the Qatar Masters by two strokes.<\/p>\n
The American, who won the European Tour event in Dubai two weeks ago and was tied for second after a three-way playoff in Bahrain last week, led from the first round in Doha.<\/p>\n
Kiwi Daniel Hillier began the day two shots behind Reed but a double bogey at the third hole, followed by another dropped shot two holes later, ended his hopes of victory. Hillier eventually finished with a three-over 75 to finish in a share of 20th at eight-under. The top 20 finish still saw Hillier move up one place in the season standings to fourth.<\/p>\n
Fellow Kiwi Kazuma Kobori earned his first top 10 finish of the season after carding his third straight round of 70 for the week to finish in ninth at 11-under.<\/p>\n
Reed started the final round two shots ahead of Jacob Skov Olesen and the two were paired.<\/p>\n
After the Dane birdied the first hole and Reed bogeyed the second the pair were tied at the top.<\/p>\n
Finn Oliver Lindell caught and passed them after making six birdies and two bogeys in the first eight holes.<\/p>\n
Lindell bogeyed 12 and 13 as Reed picked up shots on 10 and 11 to move two ahead again.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis little run I\u2019ve had, two wins and a second, it\u2019s awesome,\u201d said Reed.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s special, to come out here especially to get two wins early on in the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t looking very good there on the front nine.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo lose the lead like that and then to be able to kind of flip the switch there on the back nine obviously felt amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Calum Hill, who finished in a tie for second with Reed a week earlier, claimed second again. He eagled the tenth and then made four straight birdies from 14 to shoot a 67 while Olesen was one under on the back nine.<\/p>\n
\u201cGolf feels good at the minute,\u201d said Hill. \u201cI feel like I did a lot of things well and if you put me in that position again I feel like I could convert from there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Olesen and American Johannes Veerman shared third.<\/p>\n
Padraig Harrington, a 54-year-old triple major winner, played his 500th DP World Tour event and was under par in every round to finish five under in a tie for 34th.<\/p>\n
– With AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fox will line up at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am later this week in his first Signature Event…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9055,17311,806,2562,18829,91582,11766,8231,54446,5904,18984,4131,18830,78,18831,18832,111,139,69,90,5493,10521,37252,57694,29848,18833,5128,6926,213,4497,18835,3010,208,377],"class_list":["post-274442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-9055","tag-17311","tag-as","tag-claims","tag-daniel","tag-dp","tag-earns","tag-event","tag-fades","tag-final","tag-finish","tag-fox","tag-hillier","tag-in","tag-kazuma","tag-kobori","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-open","tag-opening","tag-overcome","tag-phoenix","tag-poor","tag-round","tag-ryan","tag-season","tag-sports","tag-start","tag-strong","tag-top","tag-tour","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}