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Kiradech Aphibarnrat – With his Saltire Energy Paul Lawrie Match-Play Victory His third European Tour International Schedule victory in his 71st European Tour event. • Moves to 1,037,066 points in The Race to Dubai. • Could move into the top 65 of the Official World Golf Ranking from 92nd. • His second European Tour International Schedule victory of the 2015 season, following the Shenzhen International. • Becomes the eighth multiple winner of the 2015 European Tour season. They are: ...

It was a second visit to the Outer Hebrides but a first to the islands of Barra and Vaterday lying to the south of the island of Eriksay. To reach Barra Island by vehicle it meant catching a 45-minute ferry from Eriksay to the northern-east tip of Barra Island while Vatersay is joined to Barra by a causeway. However the trip over to Barra was capped when an RAF fighter jet emerged from the east flying at incredible speed and right over the ferry.  By the time you heard the roar of the engines ...

Fellow Scot Chris Doak has taken out tournament host Paul Lawrie to reach the third round of the Saltire Energy Paul Lawrie Match-Play Championship. In a see-sawing encounter Lawrie went 1up after 3 holes before the Callaway attached Doak leveled at the next. However for the next four holes it was 1up, all square, 1up and all square before Doak won the 13th to go 2up and then eventually silencing Lawrie 1up. In other matches England’s Chris Wood needed just two and a half hours to also book ...

Injured Rory McIlroy holds onto his World No. 1 crown after nearest rival Jordan Spieth missed out by a shot in Monday’s dramatic Open Championship play-off. Speith had a chance to overtake McIlroy for the top spot in the world rankings, but needed to succeed at the Home of Golf to unseat McIlroy. However a 71st hole not only saw the Texan miss out on capturing a third Major in succession but miss out on the play-off and the chance to go to World No. 1 But then the 21-year old Spieth only ...

Zach Johnson is the 144th Open Champion. After 72 holes of regulation play the American succeeded in defeating South African Louis Oosthuizen and Aussie Marc Leishman over a four hole play-off on the Old Course at St. Andrews. It is Johnson’s second Major Championship title and comes eight years after the now 38-year Iowa-born golfer won the 2007 Masters at Augusta National. All three players ended regulation play tied at 15-under before Johnson finished one-under par and one fewer than Oosthuizen ...

Three-time Open champion Tiger Woods left Edinburgh Airport around 6.30am this morning (Sunday) vowing he will come back stronger after bowing out of the 144th Open by missing the cut in two major championships in a row for the first time. Woods, 39, finished the weather-delayed second round with a three-over-par 75 for a seven-over aggregate of 151 and 17 shots behind fellow American Dustin Johnson enjoyed a one shot lead at 10-under par at the halfway stage of golf’s oldest major “Next ...

Saturday is traditionally moving day in any golf tournament but the exception this week is the 144th Open Championship. There has only been 32 minutes of golf today and it’s still the second round of golf’s oldest Major. First there had been a 3 hour and 14 minute delay on Friday morning due to heavy rain and then when play restarted at 7am this morning balls began being blown off the greens so much so that 32 minutes later play was again suspended. Firstly, with no prospect of play until ...