Kjeldsen stays the course at Gleneagles

SOREN KJELDSEN became the fifth Danish golfer to win on the European tour in little more than a year yesterday.

The 28-year-old won the Diageo Championship at Gleneagles by two strokes from Scot Alastair Forsyth and with the £200,000 first prize leaps into seventh place on this season's Order of Merit.

It follows the victories last year by Anders and Soren Hansen, Thomas Bjorn and Steen Tinning to confirm Denmark as one of the emerging forces on a circuit which used to be dominated by British and Irish players.