IRELAND’S Colm Moriarty, who topped the Saint-Omer Open leaderboard alongside Martin Wiegele overnight, hit a disappointing two-over-par 73 to finish in joint sixth, three shots adrift of England’s Robert Dinwiddie in France yesterday.

GARETH MAYBIN has wrapped up his Tour card early for a second year running after finishing joint second in the Ballantine’s Championship in Korea.

THE Team Ireland Golf Trust yesterday announced grants worth €217,000 to 17 aspiring men and women pursuing careers on professional tours around the world.

IRELAND’s top women golfers are launching their bids to make the European team for the 2011 Solheim Cup clash with the USA.

THE stalls did well at the final day of the AIB Ladies Irish Open in Portmarnock links yesterday as play was suspended twice – at 9.50am for 30 minutes and for a longer period at 1pm until 4.15pm – due to dense fog coming in from the coast.

BETH DANIEL and Meg Mallon fired the USA into a two-shot lead at the European Nations Cup in Spain yesterday.

Defending champion Gwladys Nocera and French compatriot Jade Schaeffer carded five-under-par 67s to claim a share of the first-round lead at the ABN AMRO Ladies Open in Holland.

Rebecca Coakley carded a course record-equalling nine-under-par 63 to claim a four-shot lead at the Deutsche Bank Ladies Swiss Open at Golf Gerre Losone.

Gwladys Nocera set the pace with a course record eight-under-par 64 before play was suspended during the first round of the KLM Ladies Open at Eindhovensche Golf in Holland.

Following a busy March and April schedule Loren Ochoa has taken a firm grip at the top of the Women’s world rankings.

The Irish ladies on the European Tour have had a slow start to the season with just Australian-born Rebecca Coakley in action thus far in 2007.

France’s Stephanie Arricau put herself in line for a possible third win on the Ladies’ European Tour with a second successive round of five-under-par 67 in the KLM Open at Eindhoven.

England’s Kirsty Taylor followed her tour record 61 with a 68 and raced into a six-shot halfway lead at the Wales Ladies’ Championship of Europe at Machynys Peninsula near Llanelli.

FORMER Ryder Cup star Phillip Walton is among the recipients of a quarter of a million euro grant allocation announced by the Team Ireland Golf Trust last night.

THE Team Ireland Golf Trust have announced funding of over a quarter of a million euro for 29 Irish golfers.