When Rory McIlroy won the first of his back-to-back Masters titles last year, his conversation was famously not up to much. “Didn’t talk to me once all day,” moaned Bryson DeChambeau, his final round competitor at Augusta in 2025. Maybe it depends on the playing partner. On Friday, the UAE’s leading golfer, Adrian Otaegui, was paired with the tour’s most recognisable player in the second round of the DP World Tour Championship.