McNeill's european hopes

Waterford's Gavin McNeill is hoping the European Challenge Tour can be his passport to golfing glory when he found his travel documents just in time to make a mad dash to the Galeria Kaufhof Pokal Challenge.

He went on to shoot a first round of one under par 71 in some howling winds yesterday.

He found his travel documents just in time to make a mad dash to the Galeria Kaufhof Pokal Challenge and shoot a first round of one under par 71 in some howling winds yesterday. The 26-year-old was preparing for a Euro Pro Tour event in Edinburgh when he got the call to play in this weekend's Challenge Tour event in Germany.