A mini tour’s major rethink
Within days of Tour Commissioner David Spencer announcing that the on-again, off-again MENA Tour...
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Robert MacIntyre ‘shuts’ out the noise to contend on the Majlis
With the incessant chatter of getting into the top-50 of the Official World Golf Ranking swirling around...
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.
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.
Dubai-domiciled MENA Tour champ MG Keyser a Fire starter after late COVID withdrawals
Frenchman Romain Langasque, England’s Tom Lewis and Czech Ondrej Lieser have been forced to withdraw after positive COVID-19 tests.
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...
How the COVID-19 pandemic has left mini-tour grinders like Luke Joy in complete limbo
It is safe to say the past three months have been a bit of a learning curve for us all. My last event was...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The trailblazing Jordanian teen’s feats on the MENA Tour haven’t been easily achieved
Shergo Al Kurdi is following a MENA Tour-paved path to his Olympic Games dream
Saudi amateur Saud Al Sharif takes advantage of home course advantage, in Bahrain, to have a shot at MENA Tour glory
Home course advantage. Saud Al Sharif has made the most of it for the first two days of the Royal Golf Club Bahrain Open. The trick now is negotiating the often unseen flip side.
Antoine Schwartz, inspired by winning mate, fires 66 to lead in Muscat
Whatever you can do māt, I can achieve too. Maybe.
MENA Tour welcomes golfers with disabilities into regional circuit fold
The European Tour welcomed the European Disabled Golf Association (EDGA) to the Race to Dubai decider last November. The MENA Tour by Arena has picked up the baton and really run with it.
