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Ireland has stormed to a convincing victory in the 2014 AGW Home Internationals today on the Montgomerie Maxx Royal course at Belek in Turkey. It is Ireland’s 10th victory in the competition and their first since 2009. The Brian Keogh led Ireland team won all three matches against defending champions Scotland with Brian and Liam Spratt combining to hand out a 5 & 4 spanking to Scotland’s Jock MacVicar and John Huggan. The match had been all square at one stage before Ireland sealed ...

It will be a Scotland-v-Ireland final in the 2014 AGW Home Internationals. This is after Ireland white-washed Wales 3 nil in their matches and Scotland got the better of England winning 2 & 1 on a glorious day on the Colin Montgomerie designed Maxx Royal course at Belek here in Turkey. The AGW Home Internationals was first staged in 1992 and Scotland is the defending champion and while Scottish Captain, Martin Dempster traveled out from Edinburgh with the gleaming AGW Home International trophy ...

The scene has been set for the opening day’s round in the 2014 AGW Home Internationals. Despite some delays with connecting flights all 24 participants made the way to the stunning Maxx Royal Hotel here along the shoreline of the Mediterranean at Belek. Firstly, a huge ‘thank you’ to Turkish Airlines who arranged the travel arrangements of the two dozen participants  and with the extra delight of business class upgrades for the various Turkish Airlines flights from Edinburgh, Manchester, ...

Alexander Levy created history becoming the first Frenchman to win two tournaments in a season in capturing the rain-reduced Portugal Masters after the third and final round had to be abandoned due to heavy rain in Vilamoura. In a tournament already reduced to 54 holes by lightning and heavy rain earlier in the week at Oceånico Victoria Golf Club, another deluge left parts of the course unplayable shortly after the final group had teed off at 1pm, and the decision was taken a couple of hours later ...

The fallout and soul-searching from the USA’s five point Gleneagles loss continues. It seems everyone on the opposite side of ‘The Pond’ has a view what should be done to correct the fact Europe has won eight of the past 10 Ryder Cup’s. However it was victorious 2006 European Captain Bernhard Langer who has it right in stating it is the friendships among the European players that is vital to Europe’s recent dominance compared to the ‘individuality’ so long ...

Belgium’s Nicolas Colsaerts came within an inch of creating long overdue European Tour history in recording the Tour’s first round of 59. The Callaway golfer was in sizzling form grabbing two eagles and seven birdies but just missing out on birding the 18th in an impressive 11-under par 60 to seize a three shot lead on day one of the Portugal Masters. Colsaert’s effort equaled the Victoria Course record set a year ago by Scotland’s Scott Jamieson. And while Colsaerts watched ...

The inevitable finally happened when Morocco’s Ahmed Marjane held his nerve to become the first golfer from the Arab world to win a MENA Golf Tour event at the Ras Al Khaimah Classic. One shot off the pace going into the final round and playing in the fifth last group, Marjane posted a three- under-par 69 at Tower Links Golf Club for an eight-under-par total of 208 that stood up as the overnight joint leaders all faded out of contention as the day wore on. It may have taken three years and 26 events ...