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Irish born Walker Cup winning hero Gavin Moynihan has wasted little time turning professional the very next day and joining ISM and will play his first event as a professional at this week’s Open D’Italia. A two-time Irish Amateur champion, winner of the Peter McEvoy Trophy and the Carrick Neill Scottish Open Championship, Irishman Gavin, 20, took part in his second Walker Cup, at Royal Lytham & St Annes, at the weekend. Gavin contributed two points in Great Britain and Ireland’s record ...

Kiwi Lydia Ko has become the youngest female winner of a major is capturing Evian Championship. After capturing eight LPGA Titles Ko finally secured the one thing missing from her already impressive golfing CV – a first Major. Ko produced a flawless final round eight under par 63 to storm to a six stroke success with a 16-under par tally over Lexi Thompson who was in a distant second place. “It’s probably the best round ever,” Ko said. “To finish with two birdies, finish ...

It’s Wade Ormsby’s shout after he not only earned a supply of German beer for a his first European Tour but then he also help set a new European Tour record on day three of the KLM Open. Ormsby will head to the final round on the Dutch North Sea shoreline lying in a three-way share of fifth place on 13-under par, and only three strokes from the lead as he seeks to capture a first Race to Dubai tournament. The 35-year old has won on the Asian Tour but yet to savour success in 219 events ...

Magnus A Carlsson and Wade Ormsby’s holes-in-one on day three of the KLM Open were the 40th and 41st in The 2015 Race to Dubai, setting a new record for most aces in a single European Tour season. And what’s more there is still a round left to play in the KLM Open before a further 10 tournaments remaining in the 2015 schedule. It was Carlsson’s third Tour ace and very first on the European Tour for the Adelaide-born Ormsby. Swede Carlsson’s pin-point 3-iron into the 227-yard ...

First it was Scotland’s Paul Lawrie but then Australia’s Wade Ormsby also began entertaining thoughts of becoming the first golfer to shoot a round of 59 on the European Tour. Ormsby and Lawrie went within two shots of golf’s magical number in posting similar nine under par 61s in ideal conditions on day one of the KLM Open at Zandvoort. However despite that disappointment Ormsby’s round in the lowest by an Australian competing on the European Tour. The 35-year old Ormsby, ...

More exciting news from the MENA Tour with Muscat Hills Golf & Country Club and The Els Club Dubai to make their debut on the 2015 MENA Golf Tour in October according to a revised schedule in a sign of the growing strength and popularity of the tour. The addition of two new stops has taken the tally of the tour events to a record 11, including nine on the ‘Gulf Swing’ that will see the golfing odyssey travel to Oman and Saudi Arabia in addition to the UAE. Missing out on the journey is ...

England’s affable Lee Slattery ended a four-year and 105 European Tour victory to capture the M2M Russian Open. Slattery, 37 posted rounds of 66, 67, 67 and 69 to win by two shots with a 15-under par tally. And Slattery’s second win has taken him to the top of the 2016 European Ryder Cup points table, and in the first qualifying event of the year long Hazeltine selection process. Slattery capped his round in holing a superb chip shot for birdie from rough behind the pin at the 17th before ...