Javier Ballesteros

Hoey up for the Challenge at Galgorm Castle

Michael Hoey comes into this week’s Northern Ireland Open, in association with SPHERE Global and Ulster Bank, showing some of his best form of the season after a run to the quarter-finals in last week’s Paul Lawrie Match play event in Scotland.

Hoey up for the Challenge at Galgorm Castle

McCarroll fifth in Barcelona as Ballesteros takes 14th

Ballyliffin’s Brendan McCarroll carded his third successive 67 to finish tied for fifth in the Alps Tour’s Peugeot Alps de Barcelona.Ballyliffin’s Brendan McCarroll carded his third successive 67 to finish tied for fifth in the Alps Tour’s Peugeot Alps de Barcelona.

Shades of Seve as Javier Ballesteros dedicates opening 65 to Dad

Javier Ballesteros in action. Picture by Fernando Herranz (El Mundo Deportivo)A picture is worth a thousand words and this image of Javier Ballesteros says it all. The 21-year old amateur made his debut in a pro event at the same course where his late father Seve took his first steps on the road to golfing immortality, Sant Cugat, 38 years ago.

And the young law student did so brilliantly, dedicating his  five under 65 to his father as he trailed first round leader Ivo Giner by just three strokes in the Alps Tour’s Peugeot Alps de Barcelona.