Australia’s Andrew Dodt poses with two golfs balls after he scored a hole in one on the seventh and 11th holes in the second round of the   Nordea Scandinavian Masters  in Stockholm, a first in European Tour history. Photograph: Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images

European golf’s man of the moment Matteo Manassero shot a second-round 65 to take a two shot lead at the Nordea Masters in Sweden on a day when Irelan(...)

Shane Lowry drives from the ninth  tee  during the third round of the BMW PGA Championship on the West Course at Wentworth. Photograph:  Ross Kinnaird/Getty Images

Heights don’t scare Shane Lowry. When he gets to lofty positions on the leaderboard, as he did as an amateur in the Irish Open of 2009 and the (...)

 Ireland’s Shane Lowry is tied eight at the midway point at Wentworth.

The no-nonsense approach worked. “I just got on with it, and kept going,” said Shane Lowry. And, for sure, in wicked weather conditions,(...)

Francesco Molinari  tees off on the first hole during the second round of the BMW PGA Championship on the West Course at Wentworth. Photograph: David Cannon/Getty Images

Italy’s Francesco Molinari set the clubhouse target on a miserable day at Wentworth as Ryder Cup team-mates Rory McIlroy, Graeme McDowell, Ian (...)

 12-year-old Ye Wo-cheng of China tees off during the first day of the Volvo China Open at Binhai Lake Golf Course  in Tianjin, China. Photograph: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images

Dutchman Robert-Jan Derksen claimed a two-shot lead over three of the European Tour’s most in-form players after an historic first round of the(...)

 Branden Grace  celebrates with his caddie Zack Rasego after winning the  Volvo China Open last year.  Photograph: Ross Kinnaird/Getty Images

Guan Tianlang may have made history at the Masters, but his status as the youngest player in European Tour history will disappear in the Volvo (...)

Brett Rumford of Australia celebrates after holing an eagle putt at the first play-off hole to win  the Ballantine’s Championship at Blackstone Golf Club in Icheon, South Korea. Photograph: Andrew Redington/Getty Images

Australian Brett Rumford eagled the first play-off hole to beat compatriot Marcus Fraser and Peter Whiteford of Scotland to win the European To(...)

Alexander Noren of Sweden hits his tee shot on the seventh hole during the third round of the Ballantine’s Championship at Blackstone Golf Club  in Icheon, South Korea. Photograph: Andrew Redington/Getty Images

Sweden’s Alex Noren will take a one-shot lead into the final round of the Ballantine’s Championship after a slow third day labelled “an absolut(...)

Wade Ormsby of Australia in action during the second round of the Ballantine’s Championship at Blackstone Golf Club in Icheon, South Korea. Photograph: Andrew Redington/Getty Images

After getting the “monkey off his back” with a victory in India, Australia’s Wade Ormsby is in contention for a second win in succession at the(...)

Ireland’s  Peter Lawrie plays from a bunker during the first round of the Ballantine’s Championship at Blackstone Golf Club  in Icheon, South Korea. Photograph: Andrew Redington/Getty Images

Former British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen faltered after a fittingly flying start, but still found himself just one shot off the lead in th(...)

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