Continental Europe fought back to lead two of the five fourball matches against Great Britain and Ireland during the early stages of the second round of the Vivendi Seve Trophy at St-Nom-La-Breteche.

GREAT BRITAIN and Ireland captain Paul McGinley warned his players not to get carried away after a dream first day of the Vivendi Seve Trophy at St-Nom-La-Breteche saw them take a 4-1 lead over Continental Europe.

Great Britain and Ireland captain Paul McGinley warned his players not to get carried away after a dream first day of the Vivendi Seve Trophy at St-Nom-La-Breteche saw them take a 4-1 lead over Continental Europe.

FRANCE’S Raphael Jacquelin held off the challenge of Britain’s Anthony Wall to claim his third European Tour title with a one-shot victory at the weather-delayed Sicilian Open yesterday.

France’s Raphael Jacquelin ended a four-year wait for his third European Tour title today.

Raphael Jacquelin made the second hole-in-one of the week as he burst onto the leaderboard at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic today.

Miguel Angel Jimenez hit back from breaking his putter into two pieces by taking a remarkable share of the second-round lead at the Volvo Golf Champions in Bahrain today.

DARREN CLARKE’S attempts to end a two-year winless drought finished with a St Andrews ‘consolation prize’ after letting slip victory in the Barclays Scottish Open.

More than 200 European Tour events and seven years on from his only victory, England’s Mark Foster takes a three-stroke lead into the final day of the Spanish Open in Seville.

Desert expert Louis Oosthuizen defied the elements to set a blistering pace on the opening morning of the Commercialbank Qatar Masters.

GERMAN Martin Kaymer won the Barclays Scottish Open at Loch Lomond yesterday to complete a brilliant eight-day double worth more than €1.16million.

Frenchman Raphael Jacquelin held a one-stroke lead over Ireland’s Damien McGrane, Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell and Spain’s Jose Manuel Lara heading into the final round of the Indian Masters.

Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell and Frenchman Raphael Jacquelin joined Damien McGrane at the top of the Indian Masters leaderboard at a blustery Delhi Golf Club this morning.

India’s Digvijay Singh set the early pace at the inaugural co-sanctioned Indian Masters in Delhi this morning after reaching the turn three-under-par.

The USA look set to retain outright top spot on the Omega Mission Hills World Cup leaderboard for the final day as they stayed ahead towards the end of the third round.

Colin Montgomerie, who has lost only three of his last 22 Ryder Cup games going back 10 years, this afternoon suffered his third defeat in three matches at this week’s Seve Trophy in Ireland.

Gregory Havret received a hug from captain Seve Ballesteros and the cheers of the few fans there to see it after producing a hole in one on the third day of the Seve Trophy at The Heritage near Dublin today.

Nick Faldo was able to smile on Friday night as his Britain and Ireland side levelled the Seve Trophy at 5-5, while stitched-up Scot Marc Warren was still around to play a part over the weekend.

Scottish golfer Marc Warren was involved in a hospital drama after a bizarre accident in his hotel room at the Seve Trophy in Ireland.

Eight years after Jean Van de Velde blew the Open with a closing triple-bogey seven, another Frenchman took eight on the same hole today.

Marc Farry was back making golfing headlines on Thursday and, unlike last time, he was perfectly happy about it.

Raphael Jacquelin claimed his second European Tour title with a two-stroke victory in the BMW Asian Open at Tomson Shanghai Pudong Golf Club today.

Motorsport enthusiast Simon Yates claims to get more of a kick out winning races than golf tournaments, despite a brilliant eight-under-par 64 leaving the Scot with a chance of claiming the biggest victory of his career at the BMW Asian Open.

Colin Montgomerie was satisfied with a second-round 70 which kept him in the hunt at the halfway point of the BMW Asian Open at the Tomson Shanghai Pudong Golf Club.

Paul Casey admitted a disrupted build-up contributed to his low-key start in the BMW Asian Open.

Colin Montgomerie was satisfied with his opening effort in the BMW Asian Open after posting a three-under-par 69 at a windy Tomson Shanghai Pudong Golf Club.

Graeme McDowell and Damien McGrane have put themselves into an excellent position to challenge for honours at the Volvo China Open this weekend.

Damien McGrane and Graeme McDowell head the Irish challenge on two under par at the Volvo China Open but both men still have a lot of work to do to catch leader Raphael Jacquelin.

YASIN ALI admitted he let an opportunity to take a first-round lead in the Volvo China Open slip out of his grasp. But the young Englishman was not too downbeat about an opening effort of 70 which kept him well in contention at the Shanghai Silport Golf Club.

Raphael Jacquelin and Ming-Jie Huan share the lead at the Volvo China open on three under-par.

Spain’s Pablo Martin produced a stunning performance today to become the first amateur ever to win on the European Tour – a total of 1,145 events.

An eagle on the 14th hole enables England’s Justin Rose to take a two-shot lead into the final round of the MasterCard Australian Masters at Huntingdale.

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.

France’s Raphael Jacquelin won the Madrid Open by three shots – his first European tour victory in 238 events.

Raphael Jacquelin, seven ahead with a round to play, was only three in front with nine holes remaining in the Madrid Open today.

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.

Darren Clarke was given a glimmer of hope today as he tried to prevent France’s Raphael Jacquelin running away with the Madrid Open.

France’s Raphael Jacquelin stretched his lead to five strokes with two early birdies in the third round of the Madrid Open today.

Ian Woosnam was walking with a real spring in his step in Spain today – and not just because he had put himself in the hunt for the Madrid Open and a first tour title for eight years with a 65.

Raphael Jacquelin continued his love affair with the Nord-Eichenried course, posting a superb third round in the BMW International Open at Munich today.

KENNETH FERRIE departed here last night the richer by €577,816 after his sensational victory in the Smurfit European Open.

Colin Montgomerie birdied four of the first five holes to charge into joint fourth place in the Smurfit European Open at the K Club west of Dublin today.

Thomas Bjorn defied gusts of up to 30mph today to open up a four-stroke lead in the Smurfit European Open – and show Ryder Cup captain Ian Woosnam how well he plays on the course where Europe defend the trophy next year.