ARGENTINA’S Ricardo Gonzalez, without a top 10 finish all season, grabbed his fourth European Tour title in stunning fashion in Malmo yesterday.

Padraig Harrington will tee-off with defending champion Tiger Woods and 2007 champion Angel Cabrera at this week's US Open at Bethpage, New York.

NINETEEN year-old Rory McIlroy and Japanese Ryo Ishikawa, almost two years his junior, have been drawn in the last match in tomorrow’s first round of the Masters.

Teenager Rory McIlroy produced easily the lowest round of his professional career today – a dazzling 63 to lead the Omega European Masters in Switzerland.

AMERICAN Bruce Vaughan will enter unchartered territory after his level par 71 gave him the lead at the halfway mark of The Senior Open Championship, presented by MasterCard — the first time he has topped a leaderboard going into the weekend.

After Eduardo Romero threatened to beat him to it, Bernhard Langer is aiming to become the oldest winner in European Tour history in his own tournament this week.

Lee Westwood needed a wildcard to make the last Ryder Cup team – and the former European number one is not expecting an easier ride this time around.

Australian Stewart Ginn holds a one-shot lead heading into the final day of the Senior Open Championship at Muirfield after posting the tournament’s first sub-70 round since Thursday.

NICK FALDO hopes to find inspiration but admits he has “no idea” how he will fare on his Senior British Open debut this week at Muirfield in Scotland.

Nick Faldo hopes to find inspiration but admits he has “no idea” how he will fare on his Senior British Open debut this week at Muirfield.

Padraig Harrington goes for a third win in five years at Augusta today – and the rest of the Masters field are perfectly happy for him to do it.

DES SMYTH has called up an old friend as he plots a successful defence of the $500,000 Arcapita Seniors Tour Championship in Bahrain, the final event of the 2006 European Seniors Tour season.

Padraig Harrington insisted his chances of winning the Order of Merit remained “a long shot” despite a superb third round in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.

Padraig Harrington was today stepping up his bid for a second double triumph in four years in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.

Padraig Harrington today stepped up his bid for a second double triumph in four years in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.

Corey Pavin and Loren Roberts, the two men named by Tom Lehman as his assistants for the coming Ryder Cup, are celebrating victories today.

AMERICAN Loren Roberts won the £1million (€1.46m) Senior British Open at Turnberry in a sudden-death play-off with Argentina’s Eduardo Romero.

Argentinian Eduardo Romero produced a sensational finish at Turnberry to share the halfway lead with American Loren Roberts in the £1m Senior British Open.

England’s John Bickerton fell just one short of equalling the course record as he posted an eight-under-par 63 to lead the French Open by two strokes.

Padraig Harrington insisted he would be trying his hardest at Augusta this afternoon. But the same could not be said of every player at the Masters.

WHEN he started on the European Seniors Tour back in 1998, Denis O’Sullivan’s chief rivals were people like Tommy Horton, Antonio Garrido, Brian Waites, Malcolm Gregson, Jose-Maria Canizares, Brian Huggett and Maurice Bembridge.

Paul Casey shared the lead in the Dunhill Links championship after going to the turn at Carnoustie today in just 32 shots – one of them an absolute shocker.

It was a case of making hay while the sun shone when the £2.7m (€3.95m) Dunhill Links championship began today – and 51-year-old Eduardo Romero was among those who did.

DAVID HOWELL has been confirmed as Luke Donald's partner for England's defence of the World Cup - the title Donald won with Paul Casey last year.

David Howell has been confirmed as Luke Donald’s partner for England’s defence of the World Cup – the title Donald won with Paul Casey last year.

LUKE DONALD carded an “easy-going” 65 to share the lead at the halfway stage of the BMW International Open in Munich.

ARGENTINA’S Eduardo Romero is aiming to make history this week by becoming the first player to win on the European Tour and European Seniors Tour in the same season.

Argentina’s Eduardo Romero is aiming to make history this week by becoming the first player to win on the European Tour and European Seniors Tour in the same season.

Denis O’Sullivan was the leading Irishman at the Travis Perkins Senior Masters as Argentine Eduardo Romero captured his maiden European Seniors Tour title at Wentworth.

GREG NORMAN birdied three of the last four holes to halve Craig Stadler’s commanding four-stroke lead in the Senior British Open over Royal Aberdeen’s Balgownie links.

What can I add? They raised phenomenal funds which go to the local Limerick charities and that’s good because much of the money was raised by the people of the city and county and it’s great that it goes back there.

Stuart Little pushed some of the sport’s biggest names into the shade today.

Kenneth Ferrie had yet another reward today for winning the European Open on Sunday – being paired with Ernie Els in the Barclays Scottish Open at Loch Lomond.

Phil Mickelson insists he is looking forward to this week’s Barclays Scottish Open, even though it is still unclear whether the event serves as good preparation for the British Open.

Spending €7,500 for a private jet after the French Open was delayed did not pay dividends for Jose Maria Olazabal in the first round of the Open championship qualifier at Sunningdale.

THERE was joy and pain for the home crowd at the French Open as Jean van de Velde revisited the trauma of his 1999 British Open nightmare to allow defending champion Jean-Francois Remesy to retain his title in a play-off.

A three-and-a-half-hour thunderstorm delay meant the leaders did not tee off until 3.15pm in the final round of the French Open at Le Golf National near Paris today.

Padraig Harrington is level with veteran American Jim Furyk as the final round of the Barclay's Classic resumes.

Play was suspended on the final day of the French Open just 45 minutes before joint leaders Eduardo Romero, Jean-Francois Remesy and Jean Van de Velde were due to tee off.

Six years on from his Open championship nightmare - and the even bigger nightmare that followed - Jean van de Velde is back in the spotlight.

Twelve months after Jean-Francois Remesy became the first home winner of the French Open since 1969 a multi-pronged attack on the title was being made today.

France’s Gregory Havret went from the sublime to the ridiculous at the start of his third round in the French Open at Le Golf National today.

Eduardo Romero, 51 on July 17, has the opportunity to become the oldest winner in European tour history this weekend – after a dazzling course record 62 in the French Open today.