WORLD OF GOLF: It wasn’t just because 22-year-old Matt Fitzpatrick and 25-year-old Tyrrell Hatton played tremendous golf down the stretch at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai that made Sunday yet another banner day for the English game. Everywhere you looked there were English players rounding off their campaigns and completing seasons that represented personal bests. So let’s give the major champion, the gold medallist, the prestige tournament winners, Ryder Cup representatives and the gifted performer known as Beef a rest and salute some of the other English golfers who do not normally make headlines but deserve recognition for their year’s efforts. They are playing their part in making this an era like no other when it comes to the awesome strength of the English game. ...read

DEREK LAWENSON - WORLD OF GOLF: When it comes to this year’s key moments for Danny Willett nothing, of course, will compare to the 13 sublime days in the spring when his wife gave birth to their first child and then he won the Masters. But what happened last Friday felt like a game-changer, all the same. On the face of it, the news was straightforward enough, with the announcement Willett was pulling out of the World Cup of Golf in Australia next week, citing long-standing concerns about his back. What’s so game-changing about that, given golfers pull out of tournaments all the time? ...read