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Ian Poulter had time to feed the ducks on route to forging his way to a three shot lead on day two of the storm-affected Turkish Airlines Open in Belek. Poulter came from one shot off the lead heading into the second round and had snatched six birdies and had just one bogey before thunderstorms forced play to be abandoned in the $US 7m Final Four Series event. There was light-hearted moment on the ninth hole of the Montgomerie Maxx Royal course when a few ducks emerged from one of the many hazards. Poulter ...

Former Open Champion Paul Lawrie has confirmed the staging next year of the Race to Dubai 2015 Saltire Energy Match-Play Championship to be staged from July 30th to August 2nd at the Murcar Golf Links in Aberdeeen. The event will  be a 64-player tournament carrying a prize purse of Euro 1m. This maiden tournament was penciled in for the same week in June as the US Open but is now to be held two week’s after the Open Championship. The new event will now be the fourth men’s event to be ...

A big Happy Birthday to Nicolas Colsaerts. The Belgium golfer turns 32 years old today and celebrated the occasion in the company of his parents Danielle and Patrick who were photographed with the two-time European Tour winner and 2012 Ryder Cup star on the balcony of the Montgomerie Maxx Royal clubhouse. However it was a stop-start day in the Turkish Airlines Open for Nicolas and all 78 competitors. Thunderstorms forced a halt to play at 12.04pm local time and with the Tour then announcing at 2.30pm ...

Victorious Ryder Cup winning rookie Victor Dubuisson was in need of urgent on-course medical treatment on day two of the Turkish Airlines Open. The French golfing ace suffers from allergies and was overcome with a nose bleed from his right nostril before play in the $US 7m event was halted at 12.04pm local time with the threat of thunderstorms in the region of the Montgomerie Maxx Royal course at Belek. England’s Ian Poulter had picked up five shots in 14 holes to move one shot clear on the field ...

Turkey is back in the bidding for the 2022 Ryder Cup. Despite correspondence to the Tour it was withdrawing as a 2022 contender the Turkish Minister for Youth and Sports Akif Çagatay Kiliç has confirmed Turkey has reinstated its bid for the 2022 Ryder Cup and is now among six countries vying to stage the event. Denmark had been mentioned a bidder but sources from within Denmark indicated all that Denmark sought was the ‘eligibility papers’ and never once advised the Tour of a formal ...

Scotland’s Marc Warren has joined a chorus of concern in slamming the new point’s distribution of the European Tour’s Final Four Series declaring the new system is ‘ridiculous’. Warren teed up on the opening day of the Turkish Airlines Open flying high at 23rd on the Race to Dubai money list and the assurance of his best-ever season in nine years competing on the Tour. However heading into the second round at four shots off the lead Warren’s annoyed all his hard work in 26 prior events ...

Double Major winning John Daly has poured cold water on the setting up of a USA Ryder Cup task force and declaring either Phil Mickelson or Tiger Woods should lead the American team in 2016 at Hazeltine. Daly, who posted an opening round of 69 in the Turkish Airlines Open, captured the 1991 PGA Championship and 1995 British Open but remains the only American-born major winner not to compete in a Ryder Cup. However Daly has been around long enough he says the answer to the USA Team ending a run of ...