Richard McEvoy can belatedly follow in the footsteps of the likes of Luke Donald and Nick Dougherty by claiming his first European Tour title on Sunday.

New clubs, no practice round and a pain in the neck surprisingly added up to a share of the lead for Denmark’s Anders Hansen in the KLM Open in Zandvoort.

Scotland’s Marc Warren, winner of the Scandinavian Masters just four days ago, came down to earth with a bump in the KLM Open in Holland today.

Scotland’s Marc Warren claimed his first European Tour title after a thrilling finish to the EnterCard Scandinavian Masters.

England’s David Griffiths stormed into the lead at the Spanish Open today - back at the club where he finished third in last November’s European Tour qualifying school.

Peter McEvoy, the former Great Britain and Ireland captain, believes this year’s Walker Cup side is one of the strongest ever assembled.

Luke Donald will tell Bernhard Langer next week that he is confident enough to be paired with any of his European team-mates in the Ryder Cup at Oakland Hills.

ALL that was absent from Bertie Ahern’s attire of yellow trousers and light jacket at the G8 summit on Sea Island in Georgia was a Panama hat.

GROUP OF EIGHT leaders wound up a summit that adopted a raft of anti-terror, trade and development measures but saw a hoped-for display of unity punctured by new trans-Atlantic squabbles.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George Bush today called for greater Nato involvement in Iraq.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair was today having private talks at the G8 summit with US President George Bush.

LEADERS from the Group of Eight industrialised nations are gathering in the US for their annual summit.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair touched down in Georgia tonight for the G8 summit of world leaders, confident that United Nations agreement on a new resolution on Iraq was only hours away.

As President George Bush plays host today to world leaders critical of his Iraq policies, the White House is hoping the G-8 summit proves a turning point where he and his adversaries on the war permanently set aside their differences.

President George Bush, bolstered by the prospect of allied support for a new UN resolution on Iraq, hopes to use the annual summit of powerful countries to heal the rift with Europe over American policies in the Middle East.

U2 frontman Bono has been honoured by an organisation dedicated to further the work of US civil rights leader Martin Luther King.

The United States retained the UBS Cup after a dramatic 12-12 tie with the Rest of the World at Sea Island.

The United States tonight retained the UBS Cup after a dramatic 12-12 tie with the Rest of the World at Sea Island.

COLIN MONTGOMERIE and Bernhard Langer reproduced their Ryder Cup form to inspire the Rest of the World to a slender 3½ to 2½ lead over the United States after the opening day of the UBS Cup.

Colin Montgomerie and Bernhard Langer reproduced their Ryder Cup form to inspire the Rest of the World to a slender 3 1/2 to 2 1/2 lead over the United States after the opening day of the UBS Cup.

Colin Montgomerie and Bernhard Langer today carried on where they left off in last year’s Ryder Cup on the opening day of the UBS Cup in Georgia.

Tony Jacklin will put his famed captaincy skills to the test once again when the Rest of the World take on the United States in the third UBS Cup.

Britain and Ireland's amateurs snatched an historic third successive Walker Cup victory over the United States at Ganton.

BRITAIN and Ireland’s amateurs snatched a brilliant third successive Walker Cup victory over the United States at Ganton yesterday.

Changes in the way Europe picks its Ryder Cup team are even more likely following Luke Donald’s victory in America.

While Lee Westwood and Justin Rose have to sit out this week’s United States Open in New York, another English golfer has given himself the perfect opportunity to remind everybody of his ability.

Britain and Ireland’s Walker Cup team, winners in America for only the second time in history, have overwhelmingly taken the Golf Writers’ Trophy for 2001.