Sandy Lyle has announced that he has played in his last PGA Tour Champions event, effectively confirming his retirement from tour golf.
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John Paramor, the DP World Tour’s former chief referee, whose career spanned six decades, has died aged 67.
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Barry Lane, a Ryder Cup player, five-time European Tour winner and eight-time Legends Tour winner, has died at the age of 62 following a short illness. Lane made 693 starts on the European Tour – now known as the DP World Tour – and is fourth on the Tour’s all-time appearance list. Born in Hayes, Middlesex in 1960, Lane first took up the game of golf aged 14. Two years later, aged 16, he joined the Downshire Golf Club near […]
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Swindon’s David Howell made history today when he teed off at this week’s Cazoo Open in Wales to become just the third player to play 700 European Tour events. The dual Ryder Cup winner joins European golf legends Sam Torrance and Miguel Angel Jiménez as a member of the exclusive ‘700 Club’. Jiménez overtook Torrance’s long-standing record of 706 events in 2020 and currently tops the all-time list of appearances on 717. At 47, Howell becomes the youngest player in […]
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Germany’s Matti Schmid has been crowned Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year following a breakthrough season during which the 24-year-old secured his playing rights for the 2022 European Tour season just three months after turning pro. The award caps a year in which Schmid earned the Silver Medal as the leading amateur at the Open Championship in July, turning professional directly after his performance at Royal St George’s and instantly going on to prove his worth in the paid […]
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