GOLF NEWS - Ireland's Paul Dunne, fresh from his maiden European Tour victory in last week's British Masters, shares the lead with Belgium's Nicolas Colsaerts at an icy, windswept Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland, after both shot five-under-par 67s on Thursday - Dunne at St Andrews and the Belgian at Kingsbarns.
But not far off the pace are four South Africans - a once portly but now slim-line George Coetzee with a 69, and Branden Grace, Dylan Frittelli and Oliver Bekker all on 70.
Coetzee wasn't having a smooth sailing outward nine at St Andrews. His golf ball wasn't listening to him, and he was hitting left and right of the target.
On the tee at the fourth hole he tossed his ball to a South African he knew, Max Redman, who lives for part of the year at St Andrews.
"This ball doesn't know where the bloody fairway is, so you take it," said Coetzee.