After 25 challenging months and a pair of unavoidable false starts, the MENA Tour is back with a brighter than ever outlookContinue Reading
Asian Tour and MENA Tour form strategic partnership with aim of full merger in 2023
The Asian Tour confirmed today they have entered a strategic partnership with the MENA Tour which will help facilitate the formation of one of the most comprehensive and innovative development tours in the modern game.Continue Reading
The Asian and MENA Tours are planning a joint development circuit to rival PGA Tour’s Korn Ferry feeder
The MENA Tour’s foggy post-COVID future has finally cleared and all roads lead to Asia.Continue Reading
A mini tour’s major rethink
Within days of Tour Commissioner David Spencer announcing that the on-again, off-again MENA Tour...Continue Reading
MENA Tour back on with October 1 start date in Jordan; UAE, Oman to host events
The on-again, off-again MENA Tour is on again.Continue Reading
MENA Tour announce plans for 16 events in 2021 after emerging from ‘destructive’ pandemic bunker
After nearly eight months of radio silence, the MENA Tour is finally transmitting again and the communiqué is one of cautious optimism.Continue Reading
Jordanian amateur Shergo Al Kurdi creates further history after securing Desert Classic start
While most of us can’t wait to say ma'asalama to 2020, Shergo Al Kurdi will be one of those who look back on the year that shook the world with genuine fondness.Continue Reading
The MENA Tour’s ‘Three Amigos’ are staying calm and cracking on
We’re not sure if Josh Hill, Toby Bishop or Arjun Gupta have ever studied the deeds of Winston Churchill... Continue Reading
David Langley: One Tough Rookie
The MENA Tour has been great. I was encouraged by my coach Rob Watts to play. It was a bit of a risk for me because I only had...Continue Reading
MENA Tour eyeing luxury, six-week Aqaba encampment to finish postponed Journey to Jordan season
Plans to bring the MENA Tour’s cosmopolitan membership together to finish the postponed 2020 season at a single venue in a luxury, compound-style bubble are well advanced.Continue Reading
Officials hope to complete the disrupted 2020 MENA Tour season in October-November
The MENA Tour deliberately took 16 months between the end of its seventh season in late 2017 and the start of its eight edition in February 2019 to redesign the regional developmental circuit.Continue Reading
MENA Tour trio find novel ways to practice while practicing physical distancing
The MENA Tour might be on ice but it hasn’t stopped three of the regional circuit’s most recognisable names from finding novel ways, and places, to keep their swings in shape. Continue Reading
Coronavirus forces postponement of second half of MENA Tour season
The deepening disruption caused by coronavirus across the Middle East has claimed another casualty – golf’s MENA Tour by Arena.Continue Reading
Ryan Lumsden wins his maiden MENA Tour title in Journey to Jordan #2
Scotland’s Ryan Lumsden showed just why he is considered one of the finest emerging talents in the game when he overcame a last-hole hiccup to prevail in the $75,000 Journey to Jordan #2.Continue Reading
PGA Tour-bound Ryan Lumsden has unfinished MENA Tour business to take care of first
Ryan Lumsden has already qualified for a major championship, played the Eisenhower Trophy world amateur team’s championship for his adopted Scotland and has one of the PGA Tour’s premier regular-season events to look forward to later this year.Continue Reading
Waite leads in Aqaba but not rushing in search of maiden pro victory
With countrymen David Langley, David Hague and Bailey Gill all winning MENA Tour by Arena titles within weeks of turning professional, the danger for Journey to Jordan #2 Championship pacesetter Mitch Waite is pushing too hard to emulate them.Continue Reading
Langley and Hague race for Trophee Hassan II start as Journey to Jordan returns to Aqaba
Forget Goliath – this is a battle between David and David.Continue Reading
Englishman David Hague captures Bahrain Open in just his fourth pro start
David Hague entered the MENA Tour by Arena Q-School in late January as a Walker Cup-decorated amateur but with nagging doubts about when to take the plunge and turn professional.Continue Reading