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Henrik Stenson again created history in becoming the first Swedish-born player to be afforded Honorary Life Membership of the European Tour. Stenson is the 51st player to receive the accolade, in recognition of his maiden Major Championship win at the The 145th Open Championship at Royal Troon. The current Race to Dubai leader was presented with the award by Keith Pelley, Chief Executive of the European Tour, ahead of the DP World Tour Championship, Dubai, where he is in pole position to end the ...

VisitScotland and Aberdeen Asset Management have welcomed the news that the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open will be part of the newly announced Rolex Series as part of an enhanced European Tour schedule for 2017. The European Tour revealed that the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open, taking place at Dundonald Links in Ayrshire in 2017, will benefit from an enhanced prize fund of US$7 million thanks to the agreement as well as a significantly enhanced media profile through improved television ...

Rory McIlroy knows he has a better shot at regaining his No. 1 world ranking later this week than capturing a third straight Race to Dubai title. McIlroy returns to competition for the season-ending DP World Tour Championship but having seen his R2D title hopes vanish by his controversially late decision not to contest last fortnight’s Turkish Airlines Open. McIlroy also chose not to tee-up a week ago in the Nedbank Challenge and with Sweden’s Alex Noren making McIlroy pay dearly as the Swede ...

Alex Noren – With His Nedbank Challenge Success. • His eighth European Tour International Schedule victory in his 225th official European Tour event. • Moves to 3,367,126 points in the Race to Dubai. • Could move to inside the top ten and go to as high as ninth in the Official World Gold Ranking, from 17th. • Becomes the fourth different Swede to enter the top ten of the Official World Golf Ranking, should he achieve the feat. The other Swedes are Henrik Stenson, Robert Karlsson and ...

It took Alex Noren 199 European Tour events to capture the first four victories of his career but now just a run of 11 events to savour success in the next four after his stunning success in the Nedbank Challenge in South Africa. The new World No. 9 stormed home on the back of a stunning nine-under par 63 to win by a stunning six shots for a 14-under par tally on the Gary Player course at Sun City near Pretoria. Noren’s effort has now matched the 2014 feat of Rory McIlroy who won four European ...

Master Champion Danny Willett has withdrawn from the World Cup of Golf in Australia after a schedule change designed to protect his health and fitness. Willett, 29, decided that five tournaments in a row at the end of a long and physically demanding season would be one too many. The Englishman, according to a statement released by his management company ISM indicated Willett does not want to risk aggravating long-standing back issues and will consequently drop the fifth leg of his end-of-season run. “I ...

It’s taken 35-years of tournament golf at Sun City but finally someone has managed to record a hole-in-one. Grabbing the historic honour was Paraguay’s Fabrizio Zanotti who aced par three, fourth hole to also record his first ace of his European Tour career. Hitting a 7-iron, Zanotti leapt not only in the air but also to the then  top of the leader board on six-under par. His only downturn was the prize of a gleaming new Volvo S-90 sedan was up for grabs for an ace at the par three, ...