The latest phase in the 125th-anniversary celebrations at Lahinch Golf Club gets underway this morning with the first qualifying round in the Pierse Motors South of Ireland Championship and continues until Monday when many past champions will be honoured in a special competition followed by a gala dinner.

Niall Kearney and Jonathan Caldwell are safely through to next month’s second stage of the European Tour qualifying school.

European Ryder Cup captain Darren Clarke will gain pre-Hazeltine leadership experience in being named today as captain of the 2016 EurAsia Cup.

Peter Lawrie kept alive hopes of regaining his Tour card after a bizarre start to his Porsche European Open campaign at Bad Griesbach in Germany.