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Belgium’s Thomas Pieters is managed by the same company that looks after the business affairs of Tiger Woods and now last fortnight’s Czech Masters winner is following in the same vein in capturing the KLM Open at Zandvoort. Pieters made it two wins from two starts on the Race To Dubai tour when he was virtually gifted victory when England’s Lee Slattery missed a four foot par putt at the last to end at 18-under par one one adrift of Pieters. Slattery, winner of last week’s ...

Great Britain and Ireland inflicted an embarrassing record seven point victory in defeating their star-studded USA rivals winning 16½-9½ to claim the 45th Walker Cup Match at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club with what was the greatest winning margin in the match since it was first played in 1922. Leading 7-5 going into the final day, GB&I secured the victory with a dominant final day performance that saw them win the final morning foursomes 3-1 to take a four point lead going into the ...

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 ...

Aussie golfers Wade Ormsby and Richard Green have good reason to feel right at home contesting this week’s KLM Open at Zandvoort. Ormsby added a second round two under par 68 to his opening 61 to slip back to a share of second place behind Dane Soren Kjeldsen on a day of ‘preferred lies’ on the Kennemer Golf Club course. Kjeldsen continues to display the form that earned the 40-year old success earlier this year in the Irish Open in posting a second straight score of 64 to move ...

Rccently, and in the space of 40 minutes, two previously unknown newspaper notices for Earlsferry Golf Society in 1787 and Fortrose Golf Society in 1793 were discovered. They were found in one search of the British Newspaper Archive at the National Library of Scotland in the Caledonian Mercury which published three times a week from 1720 to 1867. They bring to 18 the number of golf clubs which have a continuous or non-continuous history dating back to the 18th century. However, not only are these ...