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Jon Rahm says: “It’s great to play a links golf event before a links golf event.” Jon Rahm hopes the local accents are all he struggles with this week when the LIV Golf star tees it up at the Genesis Scottish Open.The tournament, co-sanctioned by the PGA Tour and DP World Tour, begins on Thursday at The Renaissance Club in North Berwick. Eligible as a DP World Tour member, Rahm is playing in his first non-major PGA Tour event since the 2023 Tour Championship.The 31-year-old Spaniard has enjoyed a lot of success playing links golf, including two wins in the Irish Open (2017, 2019) and a runner-up finish at The Open Championship at Royal Liverpool in 2023.”A victory on Scottish soil would be fantastic,” Rahm told reporters on Tuesday. “As a European, understanding where it came from, and links golf, (joining) a list of great champions in the Scottish Open would be something that would be really, really exciting.”Rahm has two wins and four runner-up finishes on the LIV Golf tour this season. The two-time major winner also tied for second at the PGA Championship in May.Rahm also missed the cut at last month’s U.S. Open and finished T55 in his last appearance in the Scottish Open in 2022. He’s hoping for a better result as he prepares for The Open Championship next week at Royal Birkdale. ‘GREAT TO PLAY A LINKS GOLF EVENT'”It’s great to play a links golf event before a links golf event, and playing in the weather and the fescue grass and different than what we are playing year around,” he said.Rahm was asked what makes a good links player.”I just think you need to have a great understanding of spin, trajectory, control, and how the ball reacts on the fairway and on the greens, right,” he said. “You can usually, except a few holes here with some trees, where you can start the ball whatever you want, you hit whatever shot shape you feel like hitting or you can be as aggressive or as passive as you want to be.”It all depends on your ability to understand how you can hit the shot, how the elements are going to affect how the ball is going to react once it lands on the fairway, on the green. I know it sounds like a lot but essentially it comes to what I understand as trajectory and spin control, mainly on to the greens.” THINGS OUT OF CONTROLA few things are out of Rahm’s control, including the future of LIV Golf. He said LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil’s search for investors has not included reaching into Rahm’s wallet.”As far as putting my money into it, they have not asked me to do that yet,” he said. “So I don’t know if they will or not. It’s not something that they have asked me but there has been many different avenues to try to make it different, what we’ve had till now.”For now, Rahm is focused on getting a better feel for the course — and the language.”The lad that drove me from the airport, I was a bit too sleepless on the flight, and he was very kind, and I could not understand 90 percent of what he told me on that hour drive,” Rahm said. Related…
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The FIFA Arab Cup Qatar 2025 that took place from 1-18 December 2025 generated a total of QAR 2.89 billion of economic value for the local economy, the Local Organising Committee for Football Events (LOC) has announced. An economic impact assessment conducted in partnership with Nielsen Sport – a leader in sports analytics, underscored the tournament’s role as a primary catalyst for tourism in Qatar in 2025, contributing towards a surge in revenue across travel, hospitality, and retail sectors. The tournament’s strong global appeal attracted 305,015 fans from outside Qatar, resulting in QAR 288.9 million spend on flights, QAR 315.5 million spend on accommodation and 1.5 million room night bookings during the period of the tournament. From these international attendees, 97% believed that that the tournament had a positive impact on Qatar. FIFA Arab Cup Qatar 2025 LOC CEO, Jassim Al Jassim, said: “Mega-sporting events such as the Arab Cup, continue to serve as key drivers for economic growth and diversification in the country, in line with the Qatar National Vision 2030. The second edition of the competition united millions of fans from the region and beyond for a spectacular celebration of Arab culture and camaraderie, alongside top-level football, successfully cementing Qatar’s position as a premier sports and tourist destination.” “We are committed towards carrying forward the Qatar 2022 legacy by hosting world-class events that will not just celebrate the rich culture and hospitality of the nation, but that continue delivering long-term social and economic impact to support the nation’s goals and vision of sustainable growth,” he added. Throughout the FIFA Arab Cup, a total of QAR 246.1 million was generated through food and beverages sales, as fans explored Qatar’s diverse culinary offerings. This was complemented by a QAR 200.7 million spend on retail across prime tourist destinations in the country. The tournament also generated local transportation expenditure of QAR 84.2 million, with fans utilising Qatar’s modern public transport system to explore the compact nature of the country and visit various tourist and cultural sites. While the tournament leveraged the post-2022 infrastructure, utilising six world-class stadiums that previously hosted matches during the historic FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, the LOC recorded a QAR 793.6 million spend on operations, promotion and logistics across the host country. Throughout the competition, the LOC offered a comprehensive suite of media services at the Main Media Centre and a dedicated Broadcasting Hub in Souq Waqif, a gathering hotspot for fans during the tournament. This resulted in robust tournament and host country coverage, generating QAR 241 million in media value. In addition, social media engagement across major platforms drove QAR 24.6 million in economic impact. The FIFA Arab Cup was part of a record-breaking football season in Qatar, that also saw the country host the first 48-team FIFA U-17 World Cup Qatar 2025 and the FIFA Intercontinental Cup Qatar 2025. Qatar is now set to host the second of five consecutive editions of the FIFA U-17 World Cup from 19 November to 13 December 2026. For more information about upcoming mega-sporting events hosted by Qatar, visit www.roadtoqatar.qa and follow @roadtoqatar on all major social media platforms. Related Story Source link
Qatar-China relations are at their strongest in history, with enormous potential and broad prospects for mutually beneficial co-operation between the two countries, China’s ambassador to Qatar Cao Xiaolin said yesterday. Speaking at a media briefing, the envoy noted that since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1988, the Qatar-China strategic partnership has enjoyed 12 years of high-quality development under the strategicguidance of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Mutual trust between the two countries has continued to deepen, the ambassador noted, and Xi and His Highness the Amir have reached a series of important understandings to advance the strategic partnership, which have served as a blueprint for bilateral friendship and co-operation.Co-operation between China and Qatar across various fields has yielded fruitful results. Since 2020, China has remained Qatar’s largest trading partner and largest export destination.Bilateral trade volume has risen from $10.6bn in 2014 to $23.81bn in 2025 – a nearly 125% increase. Turning to China’s policy on the Middle East, Cao referred to the five-point initiative jointly put forward by China and Pakistan in March this year on restoring peace and stability in the Gulf and the broader region. The initiative called for an immediate cessation of hostilities, the early launch of peace negotiations, protection of non-military targets, safeguarding the passage security of the Strait of Hormuz, and upholding the primary authority of the UN Charter. China maintains that countries in the Gulf region and the Middle East should hold their future and destiny firmly in their own hands, he said, adding that Beijing supports regional countries in establishing a peace and security architecture based on broad participation, shared interests and common development. On the recent summit between Xi and US President Donald Trump, the ambassador said the two leaders’ in-depth discussions had produced fruitful outcomes.“The most important political understanding they reached was the agreement to build a constructive China-US relationship of strategic stability,” he said. Cao explained that the two presidents had agreed on a new vision providing strategic guidance for bilateral relations over the next three years and beyond.“Both sides should maintain policy continuity and stability,” the envoy said. “It is very important for both sides to honour our words and move in the same direction. A positive outlook on China-US co-operation will provide more certainty for both countries’ development and for the international situation.” He stressed that the Taiwan question was an important topic at the summit.“China’s position is very clear: first, the Taiwan question is China’s internal affair,” the envoy stated. “Realising complete reunification is an aspiration shared by all sons and daughters of the Chinese nation.” On economic and trade outcomes, Cao said that Xi had emphasised that economic and trade ties are mutually beneficial and win-win by nature.Where disagreements and frictions exist, equal-footed consultation is the only right approach, he added, noting that the two economic and trade teams had produced generally balanced and positive outcomes. On the Middle East situation, the ambassador said Xi had set forth China’s consistent position: negotiation may not produce immediate results, but now that the door of dialogue has been opened, it should not be closed again. He said that China encourages the US and Iran to continue settling their differences and disputes through negotiation, including on the nuclear issue.Beijing has also called for reopening the Strait of Hormuz as soon as possible on the basis of a sustained ceasefire, and believes the fundamental solution to the stalemate lies in achieving a permanent, comprehensive ceasefire.The envoy concluded that, as Xi had pointed out, China-US relations concern the well-being of more than 1.7bn people in both countries and affect the interests of over 8bn people worldwide.China, Cao said, is prepared to work with the US to follow through on the important understandings reached by the two presidents in Beijing. Related Story Source link
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Qatar’s high jump icon Mutaz Essa Barshim claimed his first gold at the international stage since returning from injury yesterday as he cleared 2.23m at the 1st Asian Jumps Championships in Chongqing, China. A few days ago, Barshim had shared gold with Oman’s Fatih Abdulghafour Beit Jaaboub at the 4th GCC Games – Doha 2026 after both athletes cleared 2.16m, recreating the spirit of sportsmanship just like at the Tokyo Olympics when Barshim had famously shared Olympic gold with Italy’s Gianmarco Tamberi. Related Story Source link
