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Adrian Otaegui has become only the third Spaniard to win on Scottish soil in storming his way to a four-shot success in the inaugural Scottish Championship at the Fairmont Resort to the east of St. Andrews. Otaegui, 27 brilliantly muscled his way from four shots back to win with a nine-under par 63 and a 23-under par victory tally on the Torrance course at the Fairmont Resort. The San Sebastian golfer looked in a class all his own having shot a first round 62, under a ‘four day preferred lie’ ...

Forget about the birdies, start worrying the approaching race horses. An idiot New Zealand golfer just happened to wander onto an adjoining horse-racing track while playing a game of pitch-and-putt on the Ellerslie golf course laid out in the centre of Auckland’s Ellerslie race track. The golfer had ventured under the rails to retrieve his golf ball and much to the shock of the jockeys, and also TV announcer calling the Great Northern Steeplechase. “We were all yelling at him, he obviously ...

Welsh golfer Stephen Dodd has drawn disappointment in putting his 1989 Amateur Championship medal up for auction. Dodd has assigned Graham Budd Auctioneers to auction the 9 ct gold medal he won at Royal Birkdale with an asking price of £2,500 to £3,500. The Welshman defeated England’s Craig Cassells 5 & 3 in the final. Since turning pro in 1990, the now 54-year old Dodd has won 17 times in his pro career including three wins on the European Tour. Dodd’s biggest win was his Irish Open ...

Jonathan Caldwell is staring at a Tour best finish heading to the final round of the Scottish Championship at the Fairmont Resort near St.Andrews. The Clandeboye golfer posted a third round, bogey-free four-under par 68 to move into a share of fifth place at 12-under par on the Torrance course. Caldwell, 36 heads to the last day of the Euro 1m event trailing six shots behind England’s Matt Wallace, who added a 66 to move three shots clear of the Scottish field at 18-under. England’s Garrick Porteous, ...

In one of his frankest disclosures for some time Padraig Harrington has revealed his obsession to keep-up with a younger generation of competitors. The current World No. 342 grabbed four birdies and dropped one shot to be sharing fifth place but only three shots behind England’s Matt Wallace (67) and Spain’s Adrian Otaegui (70) who head the field by a stroke at 11-under par. Wallace, and with Belfast bagman Dave McNeilly calling the shots, managed six birdies and dropped just one shot for ...

For Padraig Harrington there’s something about playing well in Scotland in October. Maybe it’s been rugged-up under four layers battling the Scottish autumn elements. In fact, Harrington captured two of his 15 European Tour victories in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship Only last fortnight, he finished T9th in the ASI Scottish Open and now after just two rounds of the inaugural Scottish Championship he’s produced his lowest opening 36 holes on the European since a year ago while competing ...

Regarded as the Mediterranean’s prime, sustainable destination, Costa Navarino is celebrating a new international golf award after the clubhouse on its acclaimed Bay Course was voted ‘Clubhouse of the Year 2020’ by Golf Inc. magazine. The striking earth-sheltered building, which has received global attention after being unveiled last summer, took first place in the ‘public clubhouse’ category of the prestigious annual awards. The uniquely designed Bay Course clubhouse covers an area of ...