After slipping outside Europe’s top 100 for the first time in his career last year Dane Thomas Bjorn has fallen in love with golf again.

The European Tour is considering a change of name as it looks to forge even closer ties with the rest of the world in battling the strength of the American circuit.

France’s Gwladys Nocera clinched her third title of the Ladies’ European Tour season with a third successive 69 in the Catalonia Ladies’ Masters.

French pair Gwladys Nocera and Sophie Giquel shared the lead on three-under-par 69 after the first round of the Catalonia Ladies’ Masters but Hampshire’s Kirsty Taylor was poised for a weekend attack.

YOU only had to look fleetingly at that rotund figure to know that he liked a pint and a visit to the nearest Outback!