In the Rough

Englands Ross Fisher has claimed the european open by seven shots after his final round of 68. Fisher had the lead from the first round and his great play all weekend means he finished on 20 under.

Spains Sergio Garcia finsihed on 13 under to finish second unlinke his compatriot Rafael Nadal who has just won Wimbledon making Rafael Nadal Wimbledon Champion 2008. Graeme Mcdowell finished in third on 12 under.

David frost the south african finished 4th and now guarantees a place at the Open Championship.

After the first day of the European Open it is England Ross Fisher that has the overnight leaderboard after a brilliant course record score of 63, which gives him a nine under total after just 18 holes. 27 year old fisher finished with six birdies in his fantastic round.

The 63 shot by ross fisher today broke the record previosuly set by legend golfer Seve Ballesteros.

In the windy conditions Northern Irelands Graeme McDowell shot a good 65 to be 2 off the lead on 7 under with 48 year old South African David Frost. Another Northern Irelander Rory McIlroy who shot a 67 to be on 5 under after day one of the european open.

In the bid for a push into Ryder Cup Places Scotlands Colin Montgomerie shot a 2 under 70 to be still in contention to defend his european open golf title from last year. Paul McGinley had a disaster last few holes, double bogey included to finish on 3 under.

With golf now implementing a random drug check with golfers you would think that the sport will now be completly keen however it has emerged that there will not be the facility to check for growth hormone drugs.

Under the new guidelines they will not be able to test for the growth hormone drug due to complication for the blood tests needed.

Golfers on both the european tour and us tour will be drug tested after round from this summer.

Golf has announced that they are bringing themselves in line with other sports by testing a selected number of golfers after each round of events. The news comes as no great shock as it has been expected after growing speculation that a very small number of golfers would fail randon drugs tests.

It was only last year that one of golf’s legends Gary Player said that he thought there was cheats within golf. After the The Open championship in 2007 Gary suggested that golfers were now looking to seek an advantage as there wasn’t any testing in golf. The comment made obviously sent waves of questions through the golf world and only now will we really see if there is cheats in golf.

Darren Clarke, Paul Mcginley, Jose Maria Olazabal and Rory McIlroy have all failed in their attempts to qualify for The Open at Royal Birkdale this year as they haven’t secured any of the 18 places on offer from the 36 Hole golf event at the Royal Sunningdale.

Ulsterman Darren Clarke folled up his poor perfomance from 18 where he shot 74 with a level Par 70 to finish on 4 over par a massive 11 shots of overall winners Simon Wakefield and Ariel Canete.

Danish golfer Thomas Bjorn withdrew from the event with Injury and will be not be present at Royal Birkdale for The Open Golf Championship.