Rosapenna’s Ruaidhri McGee battled back from bad start in the EMC Challegne Open to remain in the hunt for a European Tour card via the Challenge Tour’s Road to Oman rankings.

Challenge Tour — Rosapenna’s Ruaidhri McGee is just a shot outside the top 20 with four holes to play in the third round of the weather-delayed EMC Challenge Open in Rome.

Born in 1942, Bobby Browne grew up in the foothills of the Dublin mountains at Edmondstown and by the time he was ten years old, he was caddying regularly at the local club where characters such as Sydney Jackson, Maurice Cohen, Jackie Bloom and the pantomime baddie Vernon Hayden gave him regular employment.

PGA Tour — He looked to be turning the corner at The Open but Graeme McDowell stumbled a little in his return to form with a three over 75 in the opening round of the RBC Canadian Open at Glen Abbey.

David Higgins fired a three under par 69 to take a narrow lead on the opening day of the Slieve Russell Masters Pro-Am.

Peter Lawrie had 35 putts in a third round 74 to damage his chances of a big payday in the Lyoness Open Powered by Greenfinity in Austria

PGA Tour — Padraig Harrington's run of negative results in majors will extend to seven next week when he misses the US Open for the second year running.

Des Smyth and Philip Walton shot 72s to share 20th but Anders Forsbrand and Peter Fowler are locked at the top of the leaderboard heading into the final day of the Acorn Jersey Open,.

Ireland's quartet of challengers failed to break par as Switzerland’s André Bossert justified his decision to resist the lure of a tournament on home soil as he posted a four under par opening round of 68 to share the lead with Juan Quiros in the Acorn Jersey Open.