Martin Kaymer is on the brink of a fourth HSBC Abu Dhabi Golf Championship after an impressive third round.

Two leading players have questioned why there was no ambulance on site after Fabrizio Zanotti was struck on the head by a ball in the KLM Open yesterday.

Finland’s Mikko Ilonen remained on course for a wire-to-wire victory midway through the final round of the Irish Open today.

Padraig Harrington has endured a disappointing start to his final round with bogeys on the second and third and seventh holes.

Shane Lowry dusted off an old putter, regained his touch around the greens and shot his lowest score of the year to put himself within two shots of Thomas Bjorn’s first-round lead at the 60th BMW PGA Championship yesterday.

Local knowledge and a fierce determination not to drift into obscurity paid massive dividends for former Wentworth resident Thomas Bjorn on a weather-affected opening day of the BMW PGA Championship.

Spain’s Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano wasted no time in moving into a share of the lead when the Spanish Open resumed at El Saler today.

Waterville ace David Higgins felt right at home in producing his lowest first round score in nine months and be just one shot off the lead on the opening day of the Spanish Open at Seville.

ALAN DUNBAR stepped up his bid for a place in the Walker Cup team to face the Americans at Aberdeen next month when he fired a splendid opening 68 — four under par — in the European Amateur Individual Championship in Sweden yesterday.

MICHAEL DURCAN, the big hope of Ireland, bowed out of the Boys Amateur Championship at Royal St Georges, Sandwich yesterday after a tense battle with crack French teenager Gary Stal.