'It Was A Rollercoaster – Some Real Highs, But Too Many Lows'

Golf Monthly is working with German touring professional Dominic Foos through the 2026 season. To find out more on Dom, keep reading to the end of this article.

Dom is writing a diary after each of the lucrative International Series events held between April and November this year as he tries to qualify for the LIV Golf Tour next season. He’s sharing the highs and the lows and reporting back on the exotic destinations visited by the circuit.

Introduced in 2022, The International Series is a set of elevated events co-sanctioned by both LIV Golf and the Asian Tour. It offers players significant tournament prize funds, the chance to earn world ranking points and qualify for Majors, and the opportunity to compete against top-level fields at amazing venues across the globe.

The third International Series event was played last week at Royal Golf Dar Es Salam in Morocco. After a top 10 in the opening International Series event in Japan and then a tie for 12^th in Singapore, Foos carded rounds of 72, 72, 73 and 77 to finish on two-over for the week on the par 73 Red Course in Rabat.

The winner was Taichi Kho of Hong Kong, who beat LIV player Bubba Watson with a birdie on the 18^th hole.

It was another cut made for Dom but he failed to kick on over the weekend. Here’s his take on the tournament:

INTERNATIONAL SERIES MOROCCO DIARY

“From speaking to the other players, I know this week is everyone's favourite event. It’s a great course, there’s really good food and always good weather. So overall, a really good week.

I was really looking forward to it and I had a nice week as well. I enjoyed my time but obviously didn't play like I wanted.

The first three days, I think that's probably the worst score wise I could have shot. Even though I had a couple of errant tee shots here and there, I felt like I kind of kept things together well and should have scored a lot better.

Especially in the third round. I made a couple of wrong decisions into some of the greens, judged the wind wrong and I ended up hitting a perfect shot twice and came up short in the water. That can't happen at this level. You live and you learn!

I said to Fergus from Golf Monthly on the way round the third round – ‘It’s a rollercoaster – some real highs but just too many lows.’

For example – I made an eagle two and nearly had a hole-in-one and won a car on the short par-4 17^th in that round. But then, I finished with a double-bogey on my 18^th (the 9^th) by hitting the wrong club and finding the water. Ups and downs, but not the good kind!

Royal Golf Dar Es Salam is definitely challenging. I think this year the scoring was a lot lower because the rough wasn't up. But this year, except for a couple spots, one on 16 on the left, and then 18 on the right, it was very easy to control the ball into the greens from the rough.

I think that's the main reason why the scoring was lower. Taichi was 19-under!

But still, you've got to hit the shots and I think it was tricky to read those greens. You have a lot of double breakers. It was quite interesting where they put some of the pins too!

I was trying my best to get the score going but I must confess I was quite physically tired on the Friday as I got some pretty bad food poisoning. I had basically no sleep and my Whoop thought I had run a marathon. So that was quite a challenge.

The last round, I just couldn’t get it going and I was disappointed not to finish more strongly.

But I’m actually feeling positive that my game is good and I am close to some good results. I will keep on going.

This week is a Challenge Tour event at The Vale Golf Club in Worcestershire. I’m looking forward to it. Then I’m playing Open Qualifying at Burnham and Berrow on 30^th June. I would love to make it through there and that is a focus for me.

Then, a few more Challenge Tour events through the summer. The next International Series event is not until Hong Kong in October so I’m pleased to have some tournaments to keep my eye in over the next weeks and months.

Some of the guys have three months off basically so I’m hoping to be sharper than them when I tee it up in Hong Kong!”

ABOUT DOM

Hailing from Karlsruhe in southwest Germany, Dominic Foos started playing golf aged three. As an amateur he won numerous junior events, including the French and German Boys championships, and he played in the Junior Ryder Cup of 2012.

He first played on the European Tour circuit at Crans Montana in 2014. Then, the following year, he won for the first time as a pro – the Challenge Tour’s Gant Open.

Coming out of the COVID years Foos decided on a change of tack. Based in Dubai already, he decided to go towards the Asian Tour.

He had a strong year in 2025. He won the SJM Macao Open in October, becoming the first German since Bernhard Langer to win an Asian Tour event.

Foos is a dedicated and disciplined character both on and off the golf course. When not playing or working on his game, he (as with so many modern professionals) likes to visit the gym.

He also works on both physical and mental health – last year he twice completed the 75 Hard Programme. If you don’t know it, it’s basically 75 straight days of following a rigid programme of health and physical and mental exercise.

You must complete a certain amount of physical activity and eat only a prescribed diet – no sugar and no alcohol. You must, among other things, also read at least 10 pages of a non-fiction book each day.

Look out for online diary pieces with Dominic throughout the season, after each of the International Series events.

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