In this issue

A month after it was originally scheduled, the European Tour’s season-ending DP World Tour Championship is set to take starter’s orders at Jumeirah Golf Estates. But hold the phone golf fans! How about a little taste of Fire before we get to the finish line of this strange Race to Dubai season.

We preview the inaugural Golf in Dubai Championship presented by DP World with Dubai Golf head pro Stephen Deane taking a look at the five holes set to decide the outcome of the hastily arranged $1.2 million event on JGE’s Fire layout.

We ask what’s next for the European Tour once the Race to Dubai is run on Fire’s sibling, Earth, argue that this season like no other wasn’t so bad after all, and explore the ‘Curious case of Patrick Reed’, the controversy-courting Ryder Cup star who is on course to become the first American to finish the season as European No.1.

Elsewhere, we visit the best new courses of 2020, come to grips with the toughest hole at Dubai Hills Golf & Country Club and offer a solution to your putting woes with Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club pro Euan Bowden.

All this and much more in the December 2020 edition of Golf Digest Middle East.

Conquer the Rough

Don’t just get out of trouble, knock it on

3 mins

Pistol Putting

Struggle with poor contact and distance control on the greens? The issue could be as simple as your set-up

1 min

How to Take Good Divots

Get to your front foot and hit from the inside

1 min

Putting North of 40

Don’t let your age dictate your stroke

2 mins

Undercover Caddie

Players aren’t the only ones who choke

4 mins

One very sTranGe year

AS THIS RACE TO DUBAI SEASON LIKE NO OTHER CLOSES IN ON ITS FINAL FORTNIGHT AT JUMEIRAH GOLF ESTATES, WE ASK WHAT HAPPENS NEXT FOR THE EUROPEAN TOUR.

6 mins

THE RACE REIMAGINED

FIVE REASONS WHY THE COVID-COMPLICATED EUROPEAN TOUR SEASON WASN’T SO BAD AFTER ALL

4 mins

Fire's Pivotal 5

DUBAI GOLF HEAD OF ACADEMIES STEPHEN DEANE SURVEYS THE HOLES SET TO PLAY A CRUCIAL ROLE IN THE OUTCOME OF THE INAUGURAL GOLF IN DUBAI CHAMPIONSHIP ON FIRE

3 mins

The Curious Case Of PATRICK REED

IF ‘CAPTAIN AMERICA’ BECOMES THE FIRST PLAYER FROM THE UNITED STATES TO WIN THE RACE TO DUBAI, WILL IT SHUSH HIS FIERCEST CRITICS? YES, SIR. WELL, SORT OF.

8 mins

The Year That Changed Everything

In this terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year, many golfers find themselves feeling a tremendous sense of guilt. You know what I mean. In the worst of times, for the lucky ones it’s been the best of times.

3 mins

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