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It was a case of ‘Mission Accomplished’ for the Scottish golfing duo of Craig Lee and Scott Jamieson after securing automatic 2016 European Tour membership Lee and Jamieson undertook a 12,000 round trip to Hong Kong in a goal to cement full playing rights for next season. They did that in first making the Hong Kong Open halfway cut ahead of confirmation yesterday (SUN) with both finishing inside the top-110 on the Race to Dubai money list. Lee picked up two spots to end his fourth full season in succession in 101st ...

England’s Justin Rose has added his name to a honour roll of some great champions in banking the UBS Hong Kong Open in suburban Fanling. The highest World Ranked player in the field had to dig deep winning by a shot over Dane Lucas Bjerregaard. Rose bogeyed the last in a two under par 68 for a 17-under par winning tally and claim a seventh European Tour title and his fist since capturing last year’s Scottish Open. Bjerregaard never recovered from a 14th hole double bogey. “Lucas ...

Scotland’s Craig Lee and Scott Jamieson could breath a lot easier in making the cut in the Hong Kong Open. The Scottish duo embarked on the 12,000 mile round trip in a last tournament effort to wrap-up full 2016 European Tour membership. Lee grabbed five birdies in a 67 to be tied on two under par with Jamieson who capped a similar 67 with a third hole eagle and then birdied three of his closing six holes. Lee and Jamieson arrived in the former colonial stronghold lying a respective 103 and 106th on the Race to Dubai money list with 111th the cut off point tomorrow night (SUN) for the year. Lee said:  “Making the cut is a huge bonus and I can breathe ...

Peter Lawrie and Kevin Phelan return home Saturday morning with nothing to show for their 20,000 klm round trip to Hong Kong. The Irish pair will be headed next week to the European Tour Q-School after missing the cut in the co-sanctioned event. Lawrie had been afforded a very late invitation in the hope of rescuing his Tour card for 2016 but struggled from the outset with an opening score of 78 and then faired little better on day two in shooting a 74 that like a day ...

Sweden’s Christofer Blomstrand led from start to finish to win the inaugural Muscat Hills Golf Citizen Championship, making a significant impact on his debut at the MENA Golf Tour on Wednesday.   A good two shots in front overnight, the 23-year-old Swede had the luxury of bogeying the final hole and still winning the tournament by one shot on 11-under after his nearest challenger from Germany, Julian Kunzenbacher, agonizing missed a 16-footer for birdie.   Spain’s Xavier Puig fired ...

Danny Willett has thrown the Race to Dubai Final Series gauntlet down at the feet of Rory McIlroy and detemined to push him all the way to the victory tape Willett, 28 is lying second on the money list some Euro 291,000 adrift of McIlroy but then Willett can wipe out the deficit and go ahead of the four-time Major winning McIlroy with a fourth place finish later next week. And if Willett needed any incentive it is the superb finish he enjoyed a year ago on the Colin Montgomerie designed course. There’s ...

Top Danish golfer Anders Hansen ended a 20-year European Tour career with just one minor regret that he did not represent Europe in a Ryder Cup. Hansen turned his back on a long professional career last Sunday after posting a final round 69 to share 22nd place in the Portugal Masters at Vilamoura. David Williams, Chairman of the European Tour Board of Directors then presented the 45-year old Dane with a gift pack of a wine decanter and wine on the occasion of Hansen’s 420th and final Tour event. The ...