Overnight leader Louis Oosthuizen eased to a one-shot victory in the ISPS HANDA Perth International after a final-round 71 at Lake Karrinyup Country Club.

The linksy feel of Chambers Bay has not endeared championship organisers the USGA to a section of golfers who prefer the manicured parkland target golf they enjoy most weeks on the PGA Tour.

1 – Chambers Bay was designed by noted architect Robert Trent Jones Jr. 

Golfers are sticklers for routine, mainly because their career is based upon repetition of the same thing, day in, day out.

Masters champion Jordan Spieth roared back into contention at the RBC Heritage following a second-round 62.

Rory McIlroy confessed the conditions were almost too easy as he joined a host of players in cashing in on a low-scoring first day of the Dubai Desert Classic.

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

"I didn’t want to let him get too far ahead of me. I just wanted to try to stay as close to him as possible and thankfully I was able to do that."

It was like a final insult in what was Rory McIlroy’s final event as the defending European No. 1 — being asked to tape a TV piece congratulating Henrik Stenson on succeeding him in winning the Race to Dubai.

Scotland's Scott Jamieson came agonisingly close to recording the first ever 59 on the European Tour in the third round of the Portugal Masters today.

David Howell hopes his first European Tour victory in seven years can inspire him to the best years of his career, including a third Ryder Cup appearance in 2014.

Shane Lowry secured his best finish in nearly a year but two crowd distractions over the closing holes in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at St Andrews cost him victory.

Shane Lowry has failed to claim the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship which was won by England’s David Howell in a sudden-death play-off.

Ireland’s Shane Lowry has stormed into the lead midway through the final round of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at St Andrews today.

British Open champion Ernie Els today said he was glad to make an early exit from the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open, just days before the defence of his title at Muirfield.

There are no Irish players in the top ten after round three of the Irish Open.

Shane Lowry today carried home hopes into the third round of the Irish Open after Ireland’s four major champions all missed the halfway cut at Carton House.

Shane Lowry cast himself in the role of Irish Open messiah once more when he finished with a roof-raising brace of birdies to ease the pain of a major exodus by Rory McIlroy and the rest of Ireland’s Big Five at a wind-blown Carton House.

It was billed as a week to celebrate the achievements of our major champions, but yesterday the mood at the Irish Open turned sour, a slow funeral procession of sorts if you like, with the ultimate failure of all four champions as well as next year’s Ryder Cup captain, Paul McGinley.

Rory McIlroy will head into the Open Championship at Muirfield on the back of a missed cut at the Irish Open – and was joined in making an early exit by fellow major winners Graeme McDowell, Padraig Harrington and Darren Clarke.

Shane Lowry has finished with back-to-back birdies to move into contention at the half-way stage of the Irish Open.

Shane Lowry remains the leading Irishman on day two of the Irish Open.

Peter Uihlein and Robert Rock share a two shot lead at the Irish Open , they are nine under after 18 and 17 holes respectively.

Michael Hoey is now three shots off the lead on four under after four shots of his second round at the Irish Open in Cartion House.

Shane Lowry embraced the pressure as a privilege and combined power and accuracy with some of his trademark short game genius to lead the Irish challenge alongside new dad Michael Hoey after the opening round of a rain-soaked Irish Open at Carton House.

Rory McIlroy admitted to feeling “a little lost” as he struggled to a first round of 74 in the Irish Open that left him eight shots off the lead and battling to make the cut.

An eight-under-par round of 63 helped the in-form Richard Sterne set the early pace on the opening morning of the Joburg Open.

RORY McILROY’S decision to leave International Sports Management left company founder Chubby Chandler in “shock”, the charismatic sports agent and player manager has admitted.

A YEAR on from his Pebble Beach victory, Graeme McDowell is ready to start looking forward again — with this week’s US Open title defence marking the start of the rest of his career.

Just three weeks after meeting in a play-off to decide not only the BMW PGA Championship but also the world number one spot, Luke Donald and Lee Westwood will clash again in the first two rounds of the US Open at Congressional this coming week.

FINE is the line at Augusta National. Nathan Smith watched as he carved a lovely fade around the trees guarding the right side of the 18th fairway.

GRAEME McDOWELL will have another chance to get one over on Tiger Woods starting tomorrow after the pair were grouped together for the first two rounds of the Masters in yesterday’s draw.

Graeme McDowell, conqueror of Tiger Woods in a play-off in December, will face him again in the first two rounds of The Masters on Thursday and Friday.

The United States have claimed the Walker Cup for a third consecutive time with an emphatic 16.5-9.5 victory over Great Britain and Ireland at the Merion Golf Club in Pennsylvania.