#darren-clarke

#darren-clarke

With a $1.6 million winner's check, the 29-year-old surpassed $101 million in career on-course earnings, joining fellow golf legends Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy in golf's exclusive $100 million club.

I didn't think that going the legal route and going to court was good for anybody. I have faith in us and the DP World Tour, that we are going to find a good solution. We keep talking to them and we keep trying to negotiate.

Robbie Cannon was in a fourball with Shane Lowry at The Grove XXIII, a small corner of paradise tucked away on the outskirts of Hobe Sound in Florida.

Prague will become a byword for misery now, the scene of a collapse from a position that seemed almost too good to be true.

It's heartbreaking. That's what I want to put across to the lads. All the hard work you put in and it comes down to this. Don't have any regrets. Don't walk away saying, if only.

De Bromhead and jockey Darragh O'Keeffe landed the big race, the Ryanair Chase, with Heart Wood (9/2), beating Jonbon (2nd) and Banbridge (3rd)

This is what I want to do now. Yes, winning the Players would have been brilliant. I won the Scottish Open, which was my main goal in life apart from a major. Now, for me, it is about winning majors. With the way I am playing, the consistency and the level I know I can play at – I don't see why not.

I would say the most discomfort was like when the ball was below my feet or with chipping. Just like getting down a little bit to it. Honestly, overall, it was fine. Got a little bit tired at the end of the day, but yeah, it was actually all pretty good.

Bryn Ward was talking to his mother Wendy the other day when he suddenly remembered that his goal at the start of the season was to play five games for Ulster. Having only just turned 21, and still part of his home province's academy, it was a realistic target to set, only he managed to surpass it halfway through a season that has seen Ward play nine games for Ulster, and earn his first full call-up to the Ireland squad.

Shane Lowry blew a one-shot lead on the last hole as Nacho Elvira recovered to claim victory in a dramatic finish to the Dubai Invitational. Lowry, who had started the final round in a tie for second, two strokes behind the Spaniard, barged into the lead after a birdie on the 15th and appeared to have the title at his mercy.

McIlroy used pre-tournament media duties at the Dubai Desert Classic to assert that Hatton and Jon Rahm should settle their seven-figure penalties due to the European Tour Group for their participation in LIV Golf. McIlroy's sentiment felt especially notable because he was to spend the opening two rounds at the Emirates Club in Hatton's company. Yet there appeared no ill feeling whatsoever between the Ryder Cup teammates; as evident on the course and by what Hatton said later.

"Conor will be well into his rehab by that stage and sometimes as a player it is nice to go and have a change of scenery to mix it up a little bit," Craigan, who won 52 caps as a player, told BBC Sport NI. "You seen when he was suspended for the Germany game, he could have went back to Liverpool but he decided he wanted to be with the team and with the players."

Northern Ireland face Italy in a World Cup play-off semi-final in March and then either Wales or Bosnia-Herzegovina in a final or friendly, depending on the result in Bergamo. O'Neill is expected to be involved for both matches and, if Northern Ireland qualify against the odds, for the World Cup finals. The 56-year-old could then take over as manager at Blackburn, who are in the Championship's relegation zone, on a permanent basis.