TWO-TIME Major champion Sandy Lyle closed with a superb eagle for an opening round 66 to set the pace in the Handa Irish Senior Open presented by Fáilte Ireland, as he chases his maiden European Senior Tour title.

HISTORY repeated itself in extraordinary fashion last night as England’s Simon Dyson won the KLM Open in Holland for the second time in four years – squeezing out Ireland’s Peter Lawrie.