None of the three Irish players involved in yesterday’s qualifying rounds over the New and Old courses at Sunningdale made it through to next month’s British Open Championship at Royal Lytham St Annes.

Simon Dyson double-bogeyed the last hole to throw the race for the Spanish Open wide open again with a round to go in Seville.

England's Mark Foster and Spaniard Ignacio Garrido, who have played more than 450 European Tour events between them since their last wins in 2003, will go head to head to try to change that at Gleneagles tomorrow.

Sixteen years after his unbeaten part in sending Tiger Woods to Walker Cup defeat, England's Mark Foster is hoping to seal a return to team golf in real style this weekend.

The players chasing shock leaders Thomas Bjorn and Tom Lewis were today hoping to take advantage of perfect conditions in the second round of the 140th Open Championship.

FOUR Irish amateurs have the opportunity to emulate Shane Lowry’s amazing success at Baltray last year and upstage the professionals in the ‘3’ Irish Open Championship.

IN THE normal passage of time, Rory McIlroy will probably forget that he shot four admirable rounds of 72, 70, 72 and 68 to finish two over par in the 2009 US Open at Bethpage and finish in a share of 10th position.

The number one spot on the European Order of Merit is up for grabs at the French Open this week with top four Miguel Angel Jimenez, Robert Karlsson, Lee Westwood and Oliver Wilson all competing for a first prize of more than €630,000.

FEW professional golfers are on top of their act as much as Pádraig Harrington so it will be the wish of all Irish fans that he knows exactly what he is doing when it comes to playing himself into the European Ryder Cup for the fifth successive year at Valhalla, Louisville, Kentucky on September 19-21.

German Martin Kaymer won the BMW International in Munich – but only after losing a six-shot lead and being forced into a play-off by Dane Anders Hansen.

South African Andrew McLardy missed a golden opportunity for a course record on the final day of the BMW International in Munich.

Ryder Cup hopeful Martin Kaymer, paired with fellow German Bernhard Langer for the first time in competition, almost eagled his second hole of the BMW International in Munich today.

Colin Montgomerie is not the only star hoping to use this week’s BMW International in Munich as a means of forgetting last week’s US Open.

Ryder Cup hopefuls Luke Donald and Ian Poulter have both pulled out of this week's BMW International in Munich because of the wrist injuries they suffered at the US Open.

Swede Niclas Fasth tonight praised Bernhard Langer for having “the stuff of champions” – after stopping the 49-year-old German from achieving perhaps the most remarkable victory of his amazing career.

Even when he had kissed his wife, hugged his son and been congratulated all round Padraig Harrington still wanted the evidence on a piece of paper in front of him.

Darren Clarke has asked Europe’s Ryder Cup captain Ian Woosnam to consider him for a wild card for next month’s contest at the K Club.

Paul Casey is looking to celebrate winning a second Ryder Cup cap in real style tomorrow after producing a mightily impressive 64 in the third round of the Bridgestone world championship in Akron.

As hard as he tried today Lee Westwood continued to have problems at the Bridgestone world championship in Akron.

Luke Donald could not manage a single birdie playing with Tiger Woods on Sunday, but he began the Bridgestone world championship with three of them in Akron today.

David Howell is hopeful of being fully fit again by the end of the week following treatment on his latest injury.

Jose Maria Olazabal’s return to the Ryder Cup after seven years suddenly has a huge question mark over it. And not just because he fell from third to 10th in the qualifying table this weekend.

Players and caddies wore black ribbons as a mark of respect in the KLM Open in Zandvoort today, following the death of Darren Clarke’s wife Heather after a long battle with cancer.

Ryder Cup hero Paul McGinley is determined to keep “chiselling away” at the points necessary to ensure a place in what he believes will be the strongest European team ever.

Ireland’s Paul McGinley was continuing his battle to cement a place in the Ryder Cup team in the delayed KLM Open in Holland today.

After a month out of action with a back problem David Howell not only talked today about how injury prone he is, but demonstrated it.

Padraig Harrington and David Howell both trailed at the halfway stage of their Accenture world match play quarter-finals in California today.

David Howell is hoping that beating the world’s best player in the inaugural HSBC Champions tournament in Shanghai is a launchpad to further success.

RYDER CUP star Paul Casey provided further proof he has overcome the worst slump in his career by impressing in the Linde German Masters in Cologne.

Ryder Cup star Paul Casey provided further proof he has overcome the worst slump in his career by impressing in the Linde German Masters in Cologne.

The top four players in the world could all be missing when the HSBC World Match Play Championship takes place at Wentworth next month.

LAID up as he currently is after an operation on his left knee, Paul McGinley has plenty of time to reflect on 2004.

Their exploits in the Ryder Cup ensured 2004 will always be remembered as a great year for Padraig Harrington, Darren Clarke and Paul McGinley.

Paul Casey has fired his caddie at the start of Ryder Cup week – and admitted today it was a decision he probably should have taken earlier.

WITH only a week until the Ryder Cup, Darren Clarke spent yesterday resting a sore wrist and urging everybody not to go overboard about Europe’s chances of keeping the trophy in Detroit.

IRELAND boasts four players in the top 20 in the European order of merit, two of whom are in the leading 15 in the world.

THE coveted prize is within Paul McGinley’s grasp but he refuses to accept that the Ryder Cup place is actually his until the last putt is holed in Munich tomorrow night.

US Open champion Retief Goosen cruised to a six under par 66 to take the lead after day one of the BMW International, but it was John Daly who demanded attention with his comments about US Ryder Cup team captain Hal Sutton.

Bernhard Langer has taken Jesper Parnevik’s decision to pull out of the final Ryder Cup qualifying event as “a sign of resignation”.

Jesper Parnevik has surprised Ryder Cup captain Bernhard Langer by pulling out of next week’s BMW International in Munich – his last chance to press his claims for a fourth successive Ryder Cup wild card.

PAUL McGINLEY gave his Ryder Cup team prospects a huge boost at Whistling Straits yesterday when he shot a closing round of 69 in the US PGA Championship for a six under par total of 282.

JUST to watch, listen and admire the way Bernhard Langer conducted himself gave every European in the Whistling Straits media centre a huge injection of confidence and self belief.