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England’s Tyrrell Hatton delivered himself an early birthday gift shooting a final round 66 for a three-shot 24-under par victory total and become the first player to successfully defend the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland. Hatton, who turns 26 next Saturday, did not drop a over his closing 36-holes to also win for a second occasion in his career and with victory taking him to World No. 22 while he’s jumped from 33rd to 11th on the Race to Dubai money list. “It is an unbelievable ...

British Masters champion Paul Dunne is not give up hopes of a second Tour success heading to the final round  of the Alfred Dunhill Links in Scotland. The Greystone’s golfer managed to save par after an errant drive left down his final hole at Kingsbarns Links in a round of 70 to move to third place on 11-under par. Dunne’s effort was not as good as the 64 he posted on debut at Kingsbarns two years ago but in contrast he is on the verge of another big jump in not only the World Rankings ...

England’s Jamie Elson won the inaugural Ayla Golf Championship in a tense playoff on Saturday, holing a four-foot birdie putt on the second extra hole to beat fellow Englishman Luke Joy in an exciting finish to the first professional golf event in the country. Elson, the current MENA Tour Order of Merit leader, eagled the final hole in regulation en route to a closing 68 to set the clubhouse target of a seven-under-par 212 that Joy matched with a 72, birdieing the last after producing a stunning ...

Defending champion Tyrrell Hatton will take a commanding five-shot lead into the final day of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship as Rory McIlroy’s frustration continues unchecked heading to his last round of the year in Scotland. Hatton, who turns 26 on October 14, was in brilliant form not dropping a shot in seven-under par 65 on the Kingsbarns Links course and one of three host venues in the $US 5m event. The Englishman returns to the Old Course at St. Andrews at an impressive 18-under par ...

Thailand’s Kiradech Aphibarnrat continues a resurgence in form posting a six-under par 66 for a share of six place and only three shots off the lead at eight-under heading to ‘moving day’ at the Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland. The very affable Aphibarnrat, who was 2013 Asian Tour No. 1, capped his round with five birdies in a mid-round six-hole stretch at St. Andrews, as he seeks not only a fourth European Tour title but a victory that would see him become the first Asian-born ...

European Tour No. 1 Tommy Fleetwood brilliantly set a new Carnoustie course record to move into a share of the lead on day two of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland. Fleetwood, 26 produced a bogey-free nine-under par 63 to lower the previous low record by a shot on the course that will play host to next year’s Open (not British) Championship. The effort, in bright but very cold conditions, saw the new father join fellow Englishman and defending champion, Tyrrell Hatton in the lead ...

Swede Henric Sturehed stormed his way to a course-record six-under-par 67 to put himself firmly in the frame for a title shot going into the final round of the Jordan’s Ayla Golf Championship on Friday. On a day highlighted by the visit of HRH Prince Faisal Bin Al Hussein, president of the Jordan Olympic Committee, to the venue of the first MENA Tour event in Jordan, the Swede went bogey-free in his second round, bettering the previous record of a 69 jointly set by the English duo Luke Joy and ...