Next season’s European Tour – starting in South Africa on Thursday – will feature a minimum of 47 tournaments, including six new ones, and will once again culminate in the Dubai World Championship.

Argentina’s Estanislao Goya survived a late scare and an amazing birdie burst by Scot Callum Macaulay to win a European Tour title at just the sixth attempt today.

Argentina’s 20-year-old Estanislao Goya was four clear of Irishman Damien McGrane with nine holes to play in the Madeira Islands Open BPI-Portugal in Porto Santo today.

These are good times for Irish golf, with Padraig Harrington winning the last two Majors and Rory McIlroy proving himself perhaps the most exciting new talent in the game.