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Luke Donald continues to collect major awards with the Association of Golf Writers Trophy voting the Englishman as their top golfer for 2011. Donald is only the second player after Irishman Padraig Harrington in 2008 to win the triple crown of awards having already been named the European Tour Golfer of the Year and PGA Tour Player of the Year. Darren Clarke, the Open champion, and Rory McIlroy, the US Open champion, tied for second place, while the European Solheim Cup team, captained by Alison ...

Rory McIlroy has collected another award in the wake of his stunning U.S. Open success. McIlroy’s latest award was the honour of Irish Sports Personality of the Year at the RTE Sports Awards on Sunday night in Dublin. The award comes after McIlroy was named late last week as BBC TV Northern Ireland Sports Personality of the Year. McIlroy missed both award cermonies as he has remained in Dubai to recover from a general run down in his health. But there was a video hookup with the Congressional ...

Tom Lewis, who made history in October by winning on his third professional start on the European Tour, followed in the footsteps of his home club’s most famous figure, Sir Nick Faldo, by being named as The Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year for 2011. The 20 year old Englishman from Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire claimed the prestigious award 34 years after six-time Major Champion Faldo also received the accolade before going on to become the most successful English golfer of all time. “I ...

Colin Montgomerie has paid a glowing tribute to British and Coalition troops following his recent visit to worn-torn Afghanistan. Monty delivered the tribute at the 10th annual PGA fundraising lunch in London. The Scot, who travelled to Afghanistan last month with PGA captain Eddie Bullock and former captain Parnell Reilly, was reunited with the pair at the Grosvenor House Hotel last week along with a handful of the soldiers he met during the three-day excursion, which included time at Camp ...

American teenage sensation, Lexi Thompson created history in becoming the youngest winner on either the Ladies European Tour (LET) or LPGA Tour in the States with victory in the Dubai Ladies Masters. Thompson, at age just 16 years, 10 months and eight days, posted a final round 67 to win by four shoots on the Emirates course in the UAE. In doing so she became the youngest-ever winner on either tour. Thompson left her rivals trailing in the Dubai desert sand winning her second event as a pro from ...

China will be the big winner when the 2012 Race to Dubai schedule is released on Monday by the European Tour. The full schedule was supposed to be released last week but a ‘computer glitch’ meant the Tour having to pull what was up on the screen and instead reboot the entry on Monday. China, as was the scenario this year, will host three Race to Dubai events in 2012:- Volvo China Open, Tainjin (Apl 19 to 22) BMW hosted event TBC and probably either the BMW Shanghai Masters or BMW Asian Open ...

With the exception of perhaps long time friend, Rory McIlroy and a few others, there was one player who secured his 2012 Race to Dubai tour card earlier this week that for five rounds virtually went unnoticed at the European Tour School. American-born Scott Pinckney shot an equal best score of 65 in the sixth and final round to join McIlroy on next year’s European Tour. Pinckney went into the last day in tie for 66th place, to eventually take card number 24 among the total of 37 players to earn ...