Germany wins golf World Cup; Quiros shines at Alfred Dunhill Championship

Germany took home its first World Cup since 1990 yesterday, with the team of Bernhard Langer and Marcel Siem coming back from five shots behind to win the event for their country. The pair shot a 5-under 66 to force Scotland into a playoff, which the Germans won on the first hole …

Alvaro Quiros won the Alfred Dunhill Championship in South Africa yesterday, firing a final round 5-under 67 for his first win on the European Tour. He defeated Charl Schwartzel by one stroke …

Aussie Nick O’Hern defeated Peter Lonard in a sudden-death playoff to win the Australian PGA Championship yesterday. His first major professional title since 1999, the Australian PGA Championship victory also got O’Hern the 2006 Australasian Order of Merit …

Darren Clarke, the golfer who lost his wife Heather to cancer four months ago, has said he has found comfort in a new love interest. Clarke said that Nicola Regan, a family friend and divorced mother of six, had supported him as a friend through his wife’s illness, but that their relationship was moving toward “the next level.”