Lin Wen Tang celebrates after winning the Hong Kong Open golf tournament. Photograph: Kin Cheung/AP
Chinese Taipei’s Lin Wen-tang bounced back from a final-hole blunder to edge a thrilling play-off and win the Hong Kong Open — his first victory on the European Tour. The Asian Tour regular missed a birdie putt from six feet on [...]

Oliver Wilson plays from the edge of the bunker on the par five second hole at the Sheshan Golf Club in Shanghai. Photograph: Ross Kinnaird/Getty Images
Oliver Wilson takes a one shot lead over former US Open champion Geoff Ogilvy into the final round of the HSBC Champions tournament in Shanghai as he attempts to [...]

Justin Rose lies 81st on the Order of Merit. Photograph: Robert Galbraith/Reuters
Justin Rose’s hopes of making a better job of his Volvo Masters defence than his Order of Merit defence lay in tatters today after an opening nine-over-par 80 at Valderrama.
Playing on his own at the start of the 57-strong field - he qualified not [...]

Seve Ballesteros is in a stable condition and has been transferred to intensive care. Photograph: Glenn Campbell/AFP/Getty Images
Five-time major winner Seve Ballesteros has undergone surgery as part of treatment for a brain tumour. Madrid’s La Paz hospital today released a statement confirming that the operation took place on Tuesday, was without any complications and that [...]

Rory McIlroy was the only player to shoot in the 60s on a day of trying weather conditions at Carnoustie. Photograph: Lee Smith/Action Images
If some degree of truth can indeed be attached to the old Scots saying that if there’s “nae wind its nae gowf,” then the second day of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship [...]

Crude stereotypes ahoy. Photograph: Jeff Haynes/Reuters
2.54pm BST Rose finds the rough from the eighth tee, but it’s a gentle kind of rough and Poulter won’t sweat it too much. These guys look like they want to be home and hosed by the 12th or 13th.
Jimenez is unlucky there, a fine sweeping putt around [...]

Mikael Lundberg on his way to his second Russian Open victory. Photograph: Ian Walton/Getty Images
Mikael Lundberg became the Russian Open champion for the second time in four years as he held off the field with a final round of 68 in Moscow.
Although the challenge of Englishman Jamie Moul faltered in the final round Jose Manuel [...]

This morning’s leaders - KJ Choi and Greg Norman. Photographs: Gerry Penny & John Walton/EPA/PA
2.54pm: Staying with the leaders, Choi finds the bunker but sets himself up for par by brilliantly chipping close. Meanwhile, Norman thrashes out of the thick stuff and then smashes a ball to the right face of the green. He two [...]