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Struggling Nick Dougherty made of mockery of his horror season to snatch a two-stroke lead on the opening day of the Omega European Masters in Switzerland. The 28-year old Englishman arrived in Swiss Alps having missed the cut in all 20 tournaments this year and also plunging to 791st in the world rankings. In fact, of all the 379 players to have competed on the European Tour this year, Dougherty is the only player not to have made a single cent. His eight under par 63 is a lowest round since ...

A tearful Thomas Bjorn set about wiping the memories of eight years ago to share the lead on the opening day of the 140th Open Championship. Bjorn was out in the sixth group of the day and when conditions were at the hardest to record a five under par 65 on the host Royal St. George’s course in Kent. He was then joined close to 7.30pm local time by talented England amateur, Tom Lewis who captured the recent St. Andrews Links Trophy and who won the 2009 Boys Amateur championship at Royal St. Georges. Bizarrely, ...

“Good morning Ladies and Gentleman.  Welcome to Royal St. George’s for the 140th Open Championship.  On the tee from the United States, Jerry Kelly.” With than announcement from Ivor Robson, the official Starter, the 2011 Open Championship was under way. Kelly was joined on the tee by Australia’s Nathan Green and England’s Danny Willett. However in contrast to eight years ago when Kelly took an 11, the American walked off this year with  a bogey five. Green, a former ...

The second official practice day dawned bright but a lot windier. However before showing you a selection of pics, we were hosted on Monday night in the now traditional Callaway ‘Meet the Players’, and this year at the Prince’s course, and venue for Gene Sarazen’s 1932 Open triumph. A big thank you to Sue Page and everyone at Callaway for a wonderful evening.

For the first time in the events history rain has forced the Barclays Scottish Open into being reduced to a 54-hole championship. Heavy rain lashed the Inverness region very early on Saturday morning further postponing the restart to the already delayed second round in the event being played on the Castle Stuart course. There was local flooding in and around the northern Scottish city with portions of the main A9 motorway closed due to dangerous driving conditions. Seventy-eight players, among them ...

A smiling Robert Rock finally ended a near 10-year winless drought to capture the BMW Italian Open in Turin. Rock, 34 carded a final round 67 to win by a stroke with a 21-under par tally on the Royal Park course. The bearded Englishman now heads to Thursday’s starting U.S. Open in the best form possible with victory in his 209th Tour event. However Rock had put himself under pressure at the 17th when he carved his tee shot into trees right off the fairway but then in a manner that would ...

The England duo of World No. 1 Lee Westwood and compatriot Ian Poulter said they’d welcome being among those to carry the 2012 London Olympic torch. The 2012 London Olympic Games torch will begin its 70-day journey around the UK starting at Land’s End on May 18th, 2012. A total of 8,000 people will get to carry the torch. Former double British Open winning Greg Norman carried the Olympic flame over the Sydney Harbour Bridge ahead of the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. And joining Norman in also ...