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Joshua White went deep into red numbers with a sparkling five-under 66 to surge to the top of the leaderboard as young Rayhan Thomas kept his hopes alive of becoming the first amateur to win a MENA Golf Tour event, going into the final round of the Dubai Creek Open on Tuesday. Playing in the day’s very first group, White took advantage of slightly more receptive conditions at Dubai Creek Golf and Yacht Club, going bogey-free to reach eight-under, one ahead of Austria’s Florian Praegant ...

Double Major winning Zach Johnson has paid FedEx Cup leader Jason Day the ultimate compliment ahead of this week’s BMW Championship in Chicago. Johnson and Day have become the best of friends and well prior to the pair capturing the closing two Major Championships of the season. Indeed Johnson was one of the first to embrace Day when he returned to competition at last month’s Barclays Championship and ahead of the Columbus-based Australian storming to the top of the Play-Off Series with his six-shot ...

England amateur golfers Aaron Saddleton and Mark Avis beat odds of 25-million-to-one to ace the same hole while playing against each other at the Royal Norwich GC. Following their magnificent achievement, the BOSS Watches H1Club has decided to recognise the double feat by rewarding each golfer with a specially-commissioned, commemorative timepiece. The remarkable double feat occurred on the 135-yard, par-three ninth, in a two-v-two match between Sprowston Manor GC and Royal Norwich. Saddleton, 29, ...

England’s Lee Slattery is top of the European Ryder Cup rankings for a second week in succession despite letting slip a chance for a second straight Race to Dubai success. Last week’s M2M Russian Open winner missed a four foot par putt at the 72nd green to miss out by a shot in forcing a play-off in the KLM Open. Instead victory went to 23-year old Belgium sensation Thomas Pieters who is managed by the same management company as Tiger Woods, Justin Rose, Gary Woodland, Matt Kuchar and ...

Belgium’s Thomas Pieters is managed by the same company that looks after the business affairs of Tiger Woods and now last fortnight’s Czech Masters winner is following in the same vein in capturing the KLM Open at Zandvoort. Pieters made it two wins from two starts on the Race To Dubai tour when he was virtually gifted victory when England’s Lee Slattery missed a four foot par putt at the last to end at 18-under par one one adrift of Pieters. Slattery, winner of last week’s ...

Great Britain and Ireland inflicted an embarrassing record seven point victory in defeating their star-studded USA rivals winning 16½-9½ to claim the 45th Walker Cup Match at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club with what was the greatest winning margin in the match since it was first played in 1922. Leading 7-5 going into the final day, GB&I secured the victory with a dominant final day performance that saw them win the final morning foursomes 3-1 to take a four point lead going into the ...

Aussie golfers Wade Ormsby and Richard Green have good reason to feel right at home contesting this week’s KLM Open at Zandvoort. Ormsby added a second round two under par 68 to his opening 61 to slip back to a share of second place behind Dane Soren Kjeldsen on a day of ‘preferred lies’ on the Kennemer Golf Club course. Kjeldsen continues to display the form that earned the 40-year old success earlier this year in the Irish Open in posting a second straight score of 64 to move ...