Golf: Molinaris, Migliozzi take on McIlroy in Dubai

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 25 - Italy's Molinari brothers and national No.1 Guido Migliozzi are taking on golf's top names including world number one Rory McIlroy at the Emirates GC di Dubai this weekend.
    Italy's only major winner, 40-year-old Francesco Molinari, is hoping to go one better than he did when just failing to win last week's Abu Dhabi championship.
    His olrder brother Edoardo, 41, is gearing up for another challenge ahead of this year's Ryder Cup in Rome where he will be one of he vice captains to England's Luke Donald.
    The Dubai classic is the second event of the Rolex Series on the DP World Tour 2023.
    It is another big chance for Turin-born Chicco Molinari and Vicenza-born Migliozzi to advance their case for inclusion in the Ryder Cup team for the event against Team USA at the 'Marco Simone' golf club at Guidonia Montecelio outside Roma on September 29-October 1.
    The Dubai event, now in its 34th year, has a prize pot of nine million dollars.
    Northern Irishman McIlroy is bidding for his third win after 2009 and 2015 to equal South African Ernie Els' record.
    Other previous winners include Severiano Ballesteros (1992), Josè Maria Olazabal (1998) and Tiger Woods (2008). (ANSA).