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Marcus ‘Cool Hand; Kinhult holed the most important putt of his pro career in birdiing the 72nd hole to break a four-way log-jam atop of the board and capture the Betfred British Masters at Hillside. Kinhult, 22  held off challenges from defending champion Eddie Pepperell, four-time winner Matt Wallace and Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre to win his first European Tour title in his 52nd Tour event. In fact, the Swede birdied the final two holes after dropping two strokes on the previous two ...

Hillside … European Tour rookie Robert MacIntyre found an ideal way to tune-in to again playing links golf with a practice round last Sunday at the famed Southerness Golf Club in Scotland. MacIntyre produced a Betfred British Masters second round 68 to move to five-under par and highlighting his day’s work with an eagle ‘3’ at his 11th hole of this week’s host Hillside course. And after missing the cut in last week’s Volvo China Open and getting back home on Saturday, MacIntyre ...

Hillside … A clealy revitalised Michael Hoey made it seven new season cuts in succession with a five-under par tally heading to the weekend rounds of the storm-affected British Masters at Hillside. An electrical storm late morning lashed the course just after Hoey had bogeyed his 16th, forcing a 75-minute delay and with the Belfast golfer emerging from a short ‘snooze’ to par his 17th and hole a birdie on 18 in a round of 71. Hoey, 40 left the course just inside the top-20 and seven shots ...

Hillside … Two years ago it was American Jordan Spieth lighting-up the neighbouring Royal Birkdale and now around 250-yards from the 18th green where the Americn was handed the Claret Jug, England’s Matthew Jordan has posted a new course record 63 on day one of the British Masters. Jordan matched his age of 23 in posting just 23 putts to lead the field by two shots with his nine-under par total. Playing just his 12th event as a professional, Jordan defied wet and chilly conditions at ...

Hillside …..In an historic European Tour first 10 members of the European Disabled Golf Association (EDGA) will tee-off ahead of the field on the final two days of this July’s Aberdeen Standard Investments Scottish Open at The Renaissance. The 10 male golfers, to be selected from the World Rankings for Disabled Golfers and many with sub-zero handicaps, will play from same championship tees as the all European Tour pros who make the weekend cut. Eight players will then head to Dubai for ...

• Qualification will start at the 2019 BMW PGA Championship and end at the 2020 BMW PGA Championship • The first four qualifiers will come from the European Points list, the next five from the World Points list • European Captain Padraig Harrington will have three wildcard picks • Points will be weighed by 1.5 towards the end of the qualification period • No qualification points will be available anywhere in the world opposite Rolex Series events. The European Tour today confirmed the qualification ...

Mikko Korhonen secured a second European Tour title of his career at the 25th anniversary edition of the Volvo China Open, the Finn overcoming Frenchman Benjamin Hebert on the first play-off hole after a thrilling finale at Genzon Golf Club. In an intriguing final day tussle, last week’s Trophée Hassan II champion Jorge Campillo, overnight leader Benjamin Hebert and Korhonen – all playing together – shared a three-way lead stepping onto the 17th tee, but the 38 year old from Helsinki ...