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The 2016 Saltire Energy Paul Lawrie Match Play finds itself in a prime position the New Year schedule sandwiched between the PGA Championship and the start of the Olympic Games when it is returns to the Murcar Links Golf Club and to be staged from August 4-7, 2016. The PGA Championship is a week before at Baltusrol in New Jersey while the Summer Olympics, and heralding a return of golf to the world’s biggest sporting spectacle, commences in Rio do Janeiro for the men on August 11th and on ...

Ian Poulter believes the European Tour simply can’t ‘roll over’ with suggestion the Tournament Players Committee may be considering reducing the mandatory number of events to retain membership could be reduced by two to 11 tournaments. A week ago Poulter was sent into a whirlwind when he dropped outside of the World’s top-50 and thus becoming ineligible for next week’s WGC-HSBC Champions event in Shanghai. It meant the Lake Nona-based Brit, who had intended the China ...

Clarke Lutton ensured the Scottish flag keeps flying at the Ghala Open after overnight leader Ted Innes-Ker slipped off the pace, going into the final round of the MENA Golf Tour’s event on Tuesday. A good two shots behind at the start, Lutton returned a tidy four-under 68 to reach seven-under for the tournament, one ahead of England’s Luke Joy and two clear of Stuart Archibald and Lee Corfield. Spain’s Sixto Casabona-navarro and Max Williams of England shared fifth on four under as three players, ...

England’s Danny Willett has four-time Major winning Rory McIlroy set firmly in his sights as he heads towards the business end of the European Tour season and the lucrative, four-event Final Series. The Englishman is 271,214 points and one place behind McIlroy in The Race to Dubai, but with 32 million points on offer over the next four weeks – starting with this week’s Turkish Airlines Open – he has plenty of opportunity to rein in his rival. A win at the first event of the 2016 campaign, ...

A new chapter in the history of the MENA Tour will unfold next week when current Ryder Cup Captain Darren Clarke competes in the Ras Al Khaimah Classic in the UAE. It will be the first occasion also a present member of the European Tour will contest a MENA Tour tournament. Clarke was meant to be joined by fellow ISM stablemate Matthew Fitzpatrick but after capturing the British Masters the England-born Fitzpatrick will instead be teeing-up in Shanghai. Clarke will headline the penultimate event ...

It was a case of ‘Mission Accomplished’ for the Scottish golfing duo of Craig Lee and Scott Jamieson after securing automatic 2016 European Tour membership Lee and Jamieson undertook a 12,000 round trip to Hong Kong in a goal to cement full playing rights for next season. They did that in first making the Hong Kong Open halfway cut ahead of confirmation yesterday (SUN) with both finishing inside the top-110 on the Race to Dubai money list. Lee picked up two spots to end his fourth full season in succession in 101st ...

England’s Justin Rose has added his name to a honour roll of some great champions in banking the UBS Hong Kong Open in suburban Fanling. The highest World Ranked player in the field had to dig deep winning by a shot over Dane Lucas Bjerregaard. Rose bogeyed the last in a two under par 68 for a 17-under par winning tally and claim a seventh European Tour title and his fist since capturing last year’s Scottish Open. Bjerregaard never recovered from a 14th hole double bogey. “Lucas ...