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Frenchman Gregory Bourdy has naturally gone straight to the top of the 2014 European Ryder Cup points table with his remarkable Wales Open victory. The ISPS Handa Wales Open is the first in a 12-month long Gleneagles qualifying period. The 31-year old popular Bordeaux-born Bourdy birdied his closing three holes, stating with a curling 40-footer from off the green at the 16th and then draining a 10-footer on the final green. Bourdy went into the last day trailing three behind third round leader, Peter ...

Scotland’s Solheim Cup star Catriona Matthew fired a final round 70 to secure her second Aberdeen Asset Management Ladies Scottish Open title in three years after a cold and blustery day at Archerfield Links in East Lothian. The North Berwick local held steady in winds gusting up to 30 miles per hour to post a three-round total of eight-under-par after rounds of 71, 67 and 70. She ended two strokes ahead of England’s Hannah Burke, the only other player under par, on six-under after a final round ...

Ryder Cup winning star, Nicolas Colsaerts confirmed injury will keep him out of competition for a month ahead of hopefully returning at next month’s KLM Open in Holland. A nagging neck and shoulder injury saw the Belgian-born Colsaerts miss the halfway cut in last fortnight’s PGA Championship at Oak Hill that also then ruled him out of last week’s Wyndham Championship in North Carolina. But in missing out on teeing-up in Greensboro also spoilt Colsaerts hope of qualifying for the lucrative ...

This year’s World Cup of Golf in Melbourne, Australia will be one of the big benefactors of two major changes to the Official World Ranking System. At its recent meeting at The Open Championship, the Governing Board of the Official World Golf Ranking approved the following adjustments to the Ranking System. 1. For the series of four Final events on the 2013 hybrid Web.com – PGA TOUR, the first three events will receive a minimum of 16 first place OWGR points with the final event, the Web.com ...

The Czech Republic is back on the Race to Dubai start line in 2014 with the European Tour to visit the capital Prague for the first time next year when the inaugural D+D Real Czech Masters takes place at the superb Albatross Golf Resort, from August 21-24. The tournament, which will carry a €1 million prize fund in 2014, will be held for at least the next five years and will be promoted by Relmost AS, who have also promoted the D+D Real Czech Challenge Open on the European Challenge Tour for the ...

After touring OMEGA’s “Precision Experience” Co-Axial exhibit in the brand’s hospitality tent at the PGA Championship in Rochester, New York, OMEGA ambassador Rory McIlroy signed the watch certificate and watch box of the Seamaster Aqua Terra 150M “Golf”, which features his signature metallised on the inner surface of the sapphire crystal caseback. The timepiece, certificate and box are all part of an auction taking place from the 7th to the 17th of August. The Seamaster Aqua Terra 150M ...

For the majority of players competing this week in Akron it now means heading north to up-State New York and begin preparations for Thursday’s starting PGA Championship at Oak Hill in Rochester. And for many of the players, including a number of Europeans such as Nicolas Colsaerts and Shane Lowry, took advantage of being able to place their bags in a special trailer for the some four hour journey north to the year’s final Major. However www.golfbytourmiss.com noted a non-golfing item ...