Hoey comes back to claim Estoril title

Northern Ireland’s Michael Hoey came from five shots back and then won a three-hole play-off to capture his first European Tour title today.

Thirty-year-old Hoey, at long last joining former Walker Cup team-mates Luke Donald, Graeme McDowell and Nick Dougherty as a winner on the circuit, beat Spain’s Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano in the Estoril Portuguese Open at Oitavos Dunes.