NORTH BERWICK'S Catriona Matthew shot a final round 69 and claimed her second top ten on the LPGA Tour this season at the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic at the Highland

MICHAEL CAMPBELL filled the Tiger Woods role at The Open today, teeing off at 6.45am and finishing his practice round before most spectators were even at Royal Birkdale.

GRAEME McDOWELL will finally consent to being measured for his Ryder Cup uniform after the biggest win of his career at the Barclays Scottish Open.

CRAIG PARRY of Australia will have the honour of hitting the first ball at the 137th Open Championship. He is grouped with Lucas Glover of the USA and England's Simon Dyso

CRAIGMILLAR PARK have moved quietly into the reckoning for a place in the quarter-finals of this season's Applecross Edinburgh Summer League.

KENNY Perry, the American who has turned down a place in the Open this week, grabbed his third win in seven weeks last night.

NORWAY'S world No 3 Suzann Pettersen claimed her second title on the Ladies' European Tour this season with a comfortable five-shot victory in yesterday's AIB Iris

SCOTLAND finished on a high in the European women's team championship at Sweden's Stenungsund course at the weekend, writes Chris Smart.

Kenny Perry beat Brad Adamonis and Jay Williamson in a playoff to win the John Deere Classic and escape with his third victory in five starts after bogeying the 18th hole.

NORTHERN Ireland's Graeme McDowell claimed the biggest win of his career and almost certainly a place in Europe's Ryder Cup team with victory in the Scottish Open on Sunday.

KENNY Perry parred the first hole of a playoff to edge American compatriots Brad Adamonis and Jay Williamson to win the $A4.34 million PGA John Deere Classic.

AMERICAN Paula Creamer followed up her opening round course record 60 with a final round two-over 73 to hang on and capture the LPGA Jamie Farr Classic on Sunday

MASTERS champion Trevor Immelman took his first-ever look at Royal Birkdale yesterday and then spoke about how Nick Faldo has helped him cope with his new-found fame.

VERY few golfers could afford to view a tournament worth £500,000 to the winner primarily as a warm-up for an event the following week. Ernie Els is one of them, playing the

WATCHING Angel Cabrera smash his way around Loch Lomond at the weekend, it occurred to me that the only South American golfer I've ever seen who could justifiably be desc

WHO could match Jack Nicklaus's ultimate course? No-one, says Christopher Cairns, but there was still a winner

IN THE matter of venting his spleen when adversity strikes, the only difference between Paul Lawrie and Colin Montgomerie is that the big Aberdonian tends to direct his ang

AS THE defending Open champion at Royal Birkdale, Padraig Harrington promised yesterday to learn from Angel Cabrera's experience at Torrey Pines last month, when the Argen

THE first Ulsterman to win the £3 million Barclays Scottish Open since David Feherty held sway at Haggs Castle in 1986, Graeme McDowell claimed the winner's cheque for £50