Fresh from recording his best result on the Challenge Tour, Conor O’Rourke tees it up in Portugal this morning as his bid to earn a European Tour card begins at qualifying school.

Italian Edoardo Molinari joined his brother Francesco as a European Tour winner today – and with it sets up the real possibility of them both making their Ryder Cup debuts in October.

Scotland’s Lloyd and Elliot Saltman today became the first brothers to qualify for The Open since Seve and Manuel Ballesteros 26 years ago – both of them by the skin of their teeth.