Rory McIlroy can next year become the youngest player ever to appear in the Ryder Cup.

Jose Manuel Lara topped the leaderboard with a 10 under 130 after the second round of the UBS Hong Kong Open on Friday.

David Howell is still carrying his shoulder problem but it was Ryder Cup partner Paul Casey who was the main focus of attention when the Volvo Masters resumed at Valderrama on Friday.

If Paul Casey clinches the European tour Order of Merit in Spain this weekend it will be a quite stunning achievement – and not just because of the calibre of player he is up against.

Colin Montgomerie is in a straight two-way fight with Michael Campbell as he bids for a record eighth European Order of Merit title after Retief Goosen’s decision not to enter next week’s Volvo Masters.

It is not often a golfer has successive rounds of 66, 65 and 66 and then tosses away his putter. But not many golfers are like Colin Montgomerie.

Just a week after England’s John Bickerton won his first European Tour title at the 287th attempt, Frenchman Raphael Jacquelin is poised to make it 238th time lucky.

Colin Montgomerie, back as Europe’s number one for the first time in six years, knows it might surprise some people that he is at this week’s Madrid Open.

ENGLAND'S John Bickerton saved his European Tour career in the best possible fashion yesterday, winning his first title at the 287th attempt.

Six years after he thought his European Tour career was over, England’s Stuart Little has the chance this weekend to put the icing on easily the best season of his golfing life.

Shaven-headed Swede Johan Skold set the pace at the start of the Abama Canaries Open in Tenerife.

Miguel Angel Jimenez tonight won the Turespana Majorca Classic after an amazing late collapse by Jose Maria Olazabal.

The Turespana Majorca Classic was again delayed by bad weather this morning.