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.

Paul McBride will take to the greens at Frilford Heath today as he begins his bid to earn a European Tour card at the first stage qualifying school event.

POLICE stormed a house in northern Italy early yesterday to detain a gunman who had killed three and injured eight by shooting from the home with a hunting rifle.

A gunman hiding in his family’s home in a small town in northern Italy sprayed gunfire on passing cars and police, killing at least three people, including an officer, the Carabinieri paramilitary police said.