Tyrrell Hatton won his first European Tour title after taking apart the Old Course at St. Andrews for the second straight day in an impressive display of front-running at the Dunhill Links Championship Sunday.
The 24-year-old Englishman, who had a (...)
England's Tyrrell Hatton equaled the St. Andrews Old Course record with a blistering 10-under par 62 to move three shots clear on day three of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.
Hatton, who turns 25 next Friday, capped his round of 10 birdies (...)
form Briton John Parry sprinted four shots clear of the field after the Dunhill Links Championship second round Friday.
Swede Martin Erlandsson was second on 136 after a four-under 68 at Carnoustie. Briton Ross Fisher (68) and Martin Kaymer (69) of (...)
British Open winner Louis Oosthuizen has come a long way since his father refused to take him or his brother on to a golf course.
“My dad was very cross with us. He refused to take us on the golf course because he wanted to play tennis,” Oosthuizen (...)
South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen turned the British Open into a procession Sunday, winning the famed Claret Jug after crushing the world's best by seven strokes at the home of golf.
The 27-year-old brought the Old Course, and the rest of the field, (...)
South African Louis Oosthuizen fought off Paul Casey to seize a four-stroke lead over the Englishman after Saturday's third round of the British Open at the wind-swept Old Course.
Oosthuizen, whose seven missed cuts in eight prior majors include (...)
St. Andrews bared its teeth Friday as brutal winds scattered the British Open field, leaving early starter Louis Oosthuizen to emerge from the wreckage with an astonishing five-shot lead.
Oosthuizen's second-round 67, which took him to 12 under (...)
Rory McIlroy showed his vast potential on the oldest stage of all Thursday as he equalled the lowest round in a major to lead the field by two, and a lurking Tiger Woods by four, at the British Open.
The 21-year-old Northern Irishman produced a (...)
The guys who conquered the British Open were no match for a miserable day at the Old Course.
The Champions' Challenge, a four-hole exhibition involving 26 past winners of golf's oldest major, was canceled Wednesday because of driving rain and (...)
Organizers of the British Open are still waiting for an entry from Tiger Woods but expect him to try and become the first player to win the title three times at St. Andrews on the tournament's 150th anniversary.
Woods is one of five players to have (...)
Twenty activists donned suits and ties and buried their heads in the sand on a Scottish beach Saturday to protest against a meeting of finance ministers from the Group of 20 powerful nations.
The protest on West Sands, where beach scenes in the (...)
Finance officials from rich and developing countries have pledged to maintain emergency support for their economies until recovery is assured, but failed to reach a clear agreement to bear the cost of fighting climate change.
The grouping said in a (...)
Britain threw its weight on Saturday behind proposals to impose a global levy on banks to fund future bailouts and called on the G20 to work toward a $100 billion deal to meet the cost of climate change.
A draft end-of-meeting statement from the (...)
British Treasury chief Alistair Darling has urged the world"s top finance officials to reach an agreement on bearing the cost of fighting climate change before a UN summit on global warming next month.
Addressing finance ministers and central (...)
Britain called for consideration of a global tax on financial transactions to insure against another crisis, and urged world finance officials meeting Saturday in Scotland to agree on bearing the cost of fighting climate change, AP (...)
Finance ministers from the world"s 20
leading economies were meeting today in the Scottish golf resort
of St Andrews in a bid to reinforce signs of a tentative recovery
that have emerged in the global eoncomy, according to dpa.
But coming in (...)
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown
urged finance ministers from the world"s 20 leading economies meeting
today to consider imposing a tax on financial transactions to help
head off future global economic crises, according to dpa.
"It cannot (...)
Finance ministers from the world"s 20
leading economies agreed Saturday to bolster the global recovery with
stimulus measures, but stopped short of forging new climate change
financing plans, , according to dpa.
The meeting in the Scottish (...)
The International Monetary Fund warned global financial leaders today not to repeat the mistakes of the Great Depression and choke off emergency support for their economies too quickly, Reuters reported.
In a document prepared for a meeting of (...)
Finance ministers from the world"s leading rich and developing countries are gathering here Friday to begin the difficult negotiations over how to even out the imbalances weighing on the world economy, AP reported.
Finance ministers and central (...)
Luke Donald shot an 8-under 64 at Kingsbarns Sunday to take a one-stroke lead over Rory McIlroy and Simon Dyson in the weather-delayed third round of the Dunhill Links Championship.
Donald had nine birdies with just one bogey, at the 15th.
McIlroy (...)
Four days after losing out in the Seve Trophy team event, Thomas Bjorn bounced back to take the lead in the Dunhill Links Championship Thursday.
A scintillating eight-under-par 64 by last week's Continental Europe captain earned the 38-year-old (...)