News - Søren Kjeldsen
Britain-Ireland won the European Tour's Vivendi Trophy with Seve Ballesteros for the fifth straight time Sunday, topping Continental Europe by five points. The Britain-Ireland team needed just two points in the final round to clinch the trophy in Paris and got them in the first two matches, a 3 and 2 win by Graeme McDowell over Robert Karlsson and Rory McIlroy's 1-up decision over Henrik Stenson. The event, which was played at the Saint- Nom-la-Breteche Golf Club, was formerly known as the Seve Trophy, named for for longtime golf star Seve Ballesteros. Other winners in the final round were Robert Rock for Britain-Ireland and Anders Hansen, Soren Hansen, Miguel Angel Jimenez, Soren Kjeldsen and Francesco Molinari of Continental Europe.
The Britain and Ireland team won three-of-five matches Friday, widening its lead over Continental Europe to 6-4 at The Vivendi Trophy with Seve Ballesteros. The matches were in the four-ball format, in which a team's best individual score on each hole counts. The British-Irish team of Simon Dyson and Oliver Wilson carded a 2 and 1 victory over world No.
German Martin Kaymer shot a 2-under-par 69 and won the Scottish Open Sunday, his second straight title on the European Tour. Kaymer, who also won the Open de France last week, finished at 15-under 269, two shots ahead of Raphael Jacquelin (66) and Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano 72, Adam Scott (66) and Soren
South African Retief Goosen holds a one-stroke lead through 36 holes at the European Tour's BMW International golf tournament in Munich. He led by two after Thursday's opening 18 holes. In Friday's second round, the two-time U.S.
Paul Casey shot 5-under-par 67 Saturday to build a three-stroke lead through three rounds at the European Tour's BMW Championship in Virginia Water, England. The native of Cheltenham has a 54-hole total of 13-under 203. He pleased a partisan crowd at the historic Wentworth Golf Club with a bogeyless round that included five birdies. I am hitting the golf ball where I want to, he said on the tour's Web site.
