Selected tips from courses in the UK and Ireland.

Shares in Lonmin soared almost 50% today after Anglo-Swiss mining firm Xstrata made a £5bn (€6.3bn) offer for the world’s third-largest platinum producer.

The European Tour will not see its 2001 and 2002 Order of Merit winner Retief Goosen playing on the continent much this year, as he has decided to concentrate on playing on the US PGA Tour in 2004.