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Here is a selection of photographs from the 2015 R & A Media Facilitation Day on the Old Course at St. Andrews. A special thank you to all at the R & A, particularly Lynn, Clare and Mary, for the great efforts in organizing all the media who had the opportunity to play this year’s Open Championship.  

Judicious Association of Golf Writers (AGW) correspondent Dick Turner has gone straight to the top of the 2015 ETIQUS Golfer of the Year title chase with his victory in today’s (MON) R & A Salver at St. Andrews. Dick, who has been a member of the AGW since 2009, posted 37 Stableford points over this year’s Open Championship venue and in the now annual R & A Media Facilitation Day. If fact, it was the Daily Record’s Craig ‘Swannie’ Swan who took out the leading ...

Craigiehill’s Daniel Young has now set his sights on Walker Cup selection later this year after coming from eight shots behind to capture the 2015 Battle Trophy at Crail. Young, who is also the reigning South African Amateur champion, shot a final round five under par 67 in bright but windy conditions to win by a shot with a nine under par 279 total on the Craighhead Links course. Young’s good friend Connor Syme, who had led the event for three rounds, posted a disappointing 76.while ...

Thailand’s popular Kiradech Aphibarnrat eagled the 17th to force his way into a play-off and then birdied the first extra hole to secure a second European Tour victory in the inaugural Shenzhen International. Aphibarnrat defeated China’s Li Hao-ton after both players had completed regulation play locked at 12-under par. The win is Aphibarnrat’s second since capturing the 2013 Maybank Malaysian Open title. Li, having completed his round, was waiting to see if he would become to first ...

Crail, Scotland …. Drumoig’s Connor Syme experienced the highs and lows of golf in storming his way to an impressive six shot lead after two rounds on day one of the 2015 Battle Trophy.   Syme, 20 went within a stroke of equaling the Craighead Links course record at the acclaimed Gil Hanse designed course at Crail with a blistering opening score of an eight under par 64.   The record of a nine under par 63 had been set exactly a year ago in the 2014 Battle Trophy by Jack McDonald.   Syme ...

Masters champion Jordan Spieth rebounded 79 places in banking a blistering second round 62 on the second day of the RBC Heritage Classic at Hilton Head. A day earlier Spieth looked as flat as most parts of the Lone Star State and clearly carrying a hangover from last week’s Augusta National triumph. Spieth grabbed a haul of nine birdies including birding his closing two holes on the Sea Pines course to end the round sharing 7th place at six under par. Fellow American Troy Merritt went one stroke ...

Double SGU Order of Merit events Ewen Ferguson will be looking to make it three wins from three starts in this weekend’s prestigious Battle Trophy at Crail Golfing Society. Ferguson, who is a former British Boys champion, captured the Leven Champions of Champions event and then added success in the CraigMillar Park championship in Edinburgh. “I am just trying to treat the Battle Trophy like any other week as it’s a situation I have never been in before,” he said. “I ...